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Date:      Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:49:03 +0300
From:      George Danchev <danchev@spnet.net>
To:        freebsd-www@freebsd.org
Cc:        Bora <beaurat@mail.ru>
Subject:   Re: new web site - bring back the old one
Message-ID:  <200510151649.03865.danchev@spnet.net>
In-Reply-To: <4350D8D9.4040303@mail.ru>
References:  <4350D8D9.4040303@mail.ru>

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On Saturday 15 October 2005 13:24, Bora wrote:
> Dear BSD,
>
> While appreciating the effort, and regretting being a spoilsport,
> please, bring back the old web site.

Since that will confirm the total fiasco of the unfinished work being deployed 
without even basic reviews, it wont happend for sure... thus dont hold your 
breath waiting for a swithover to the old 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.

Seconded. I hope that new one is fixable to some extend... till then just 
bypass it via google asking for site:freebsd.org your-query and you will get 
a one-click away, plain, flat, simple and sane listing of your favorite 
links. This is how I've been recently using the new site and that works for 
me [tm].

> 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.

Also seconded. That have been said way too many times by way too many 
people... nothing happend yet. Patches, comments and examples for the matter 
of that were not even being discussed [1]. So do not even try to check it out 
on any high resolution screens. Smash your high-res laptops, and your brand 
new 16:9 24in screeny if you happend to have any ;-)

[1] http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-www/2005-October/thread.html

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