From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 24 15:37:13 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA18027 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:37:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id PAA17965 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:36:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 19405 invoked by uid 1017); 24 Jun 1998 21:33:43 -0000 Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 15:33:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: Sue Blake cc: Wolfram Schneider , doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New home page design In-Reply-To: <19980625052123.12105@welearn.com.au> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org There should not be a "Hardware" section under "Software", but otherwise it looks pretty good. Kevin On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Sue Blake wrote: > On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 04:50:18PM +0200, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/w/bsd.html > > The page based on ideas from malartre and John Fieber. > > > > I don't know if we need the 'Getting FreeBSD', FAQ and handbook > > buttons. Comments? > > I think they're handy... if I'm seeing what you're referring to. > It's good to have all those links on the first page. I have observed a > few difficulties though: > > The list box for the countries appears half way down the main body of > text, obscuring part of the paragraph which comes before "Easy to install" > > The links on the left might be easier to read of they had bullets or some > kind of separator. For example, it's hard to get the meaning when I see: > > ... > Getting > FreeBSD > Installation > Supported > Hardware > Current Releases > Ported > Applications > Commercial > Documents > ... > > My browser seems to have been prevented from displaying this page > optimally. All the text is bunched up on the left, and the entire right > half of the browser window is glaring white space. The old page did not > cause this to happen. > > On another machine, I can only see the column on the left and half of > each line of text on the right unless I keep scrolling left and right. > Again, this did not happen with the old page. > > We have discussed the cause and its simple solution a million times. > > Content is *the* most important consideration (and it's good), however we > are supposed to be an organisation that has slightly higher than average > technical competence. I'm not attracted to an operating system written by > someone who doesn't appear to have overcome the beginner's misconception > that HTML controls screen layout. Unless you provide me with the hardware > that the page was designed for, you have no way of knowing what my screen > can do or how my browser has been configured to display HTML. > > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message