From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 13:49:13 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 2BC9216A41F for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:49:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danchev@spnet.net) Received: from mail.data.bg (mail.data.bg [195.149.248.177]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 39FA643D49 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 13:49:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danchev@spnet.net) Received: (qmail 29586 invoked by uid 104); 15 Oct 2005 13:49:07 -0000 Received: from danchev@spnet.net by mail by uid 104 with qmail-scanner-1.16 (spamassassin: 2.20. uvscan: v4.1.40/v4100. Clear:SA:0(-1.2/8.0):AWL, BAYES_50 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3. Processed in 2.997924 secs); 15 Oct 2005 13:49:07 -0000 X-Spam-Tag-Score: SA:0(-1.2/8.0):AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spamassassin-Hits: -1.2 X-Spamassassin-Tests: AWL,BAYES_50 autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 Received: from unknown (HELO danchev5.ddns.homelan.bg) (83.97.29.244) by smtp.data.bg with SMTP; 15 Oct 2005 13:49:04 -0000 From: George Danchev To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:49:03 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 References: <4350D8D9.4040303@mail.ru> In-Reply-To: <4350D8D9.4040303@mail.ru> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200510151649.03865.danchev@spnet.net> Cc: Bora Subject: Re: 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 13:49:13 -0000 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 -- pub 4096R/0E4BD0AB 2003-03-18 fingerprint 1AE7 7C66 0A26 5BFF DF22 5D55 1C57 0C89 0E4B D0AB