From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 15 16:01:18 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 199D216A41F for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:01:18 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from twilde@dyndns.com) Received: from manganese.bos.dyndns.org (manganese.bos.dyndns.org [63.208.196.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9AC7843D46 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 16:01:17 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from twilde@dyndns.com) Received: from manganese.bos.dyndns.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by manganese.bos.dyndns.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j9FG1Gd2005916 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:01:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from twilde@dyndns.com) Received: from localhost (twilde@localhost) by manganese.bos.dyndns.org (8.12.9p2/8.12.9/Submit) with ESMTP id j9FG1G5K005913 for ; Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:01:16 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from twilde@dyndns.com) X-Authentication-Warning: manganese.bos.dyndns.org: twilde owned process doing -bs Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:01:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Tim Wilde X-X-Sender: twilde@manganese.bos.dyndns.org To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <200510151649.03865.danchev@spnet.net> Message-ID: References: <4350D8D9.4040303@mail.ru> <200510151649.03865.danchev@spnet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed X-Spam-Status: -1.799 () ALL_TRUSTED,BAYES_50 X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.53 on 63.208.196.3 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 16:01:18 -0000 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, George Danchev wrote: > 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 ;-) I don't understand what you're talking about a huge gap of whitespace. I'm looking at it at 1600x1200 without any such "huge gap". I see maybe 20 pixels, and it does a good job of separating the sections of the page. I think it's a far more professional looking and useful website than the old one. As many of the developers who've worked on it have said, the old one was hideously over-cluttered, and had absolutely none of the qualities one looks for in a usable user interface. I could NEVER find the handbook, FAQ, or mailing list links on the old page, now they're quick and easy to find. If you hate having to click on multiple links so much, bookmark the sections that you use the most, and then you'll have the information right in front of you. The information is organized in a logical manner, it's really not that hard to find, if you ignore the fact that the search engine is next to useless (which hasn't changed from the old design, and is being discussed). The homepage of a web site is not designed for power users or people who use that site frequently, at least not as its first audience. The first audience of a web site's homepage is NEW users, people who have never been to the site before, or who do not use it frequently, and the new design does a FAR better job than the old one of helping those users get into the site, and into FreeBSD. In that regard, I think it does its job perfectly. Tim Wilde - -- Tim Wilde twilde@dyndns.com Systems Administrator Dynamic Network Services, Inc. http://www.dyndns.com/ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDUSfLT9UHzqLr6x4RArGPAKCwfnWbODkSHbd59QHOOLQNO70LHQCgmbeF oqrB4gmA40Db/u8kzfGGqMI= =47BS -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----