From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 10:24:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B58716A41F for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:24:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beaurat@mail.ru) Received: from mx2.mail.ru (mx2.mail.ru [194.67.23.122]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2304C43D45 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:24:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from beaurat@mail.ru) Received: from [130.123.206.235] (port=7337 helo=mail.ru) by mx2.mail.ru with esmtp id 1EQjDL-000Oyi-00; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 14:24:31 +0400 Message-ID: <4350D8D9.4040303@mail.ru> Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 23:24:25 +1300 From: Bora User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en, en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Subject: new web site - bring back the old one X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 10:24:33 -0000 Dear BSD, While appreciating the effort, and regretting being a spoilsport, please, bring back the old web site. It was much easier to navigate, far more informative. There was more information on a single page, so I did not need to make too many clicks to get where I wanted to go. A highly technical web site such as yours is not an adventure game. It is a library! Here, clarity, transparent ordering, and restraint in visual effects wins at all times over any amount of "design skill" applied to it. e.g. On my screen, there is a huge white void between "Learn more" and the "Latest news" way below it. It may "look nice" to a designer devoid of any sense of practicality, but is a huge waste of a resource: the space. This means, less information presented on the page, thus more clicking to find what is where, therefore the waste of time, too. Plus, all the fancy floating frames and other super-duper web design devices clutter the screen, and are not yet universally supported (yes, this one is about the big evil company). If you are dead set on having a new look, please, keep the header, the left and the right column of the old home page, and limit the "fancy designer" stuff to the middle. Regards, B.