From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 20 15:55:18 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id PAA23619 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:55:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu [149.159.1.34]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id PAA23614 for ; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 15:55:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (jfieber@localhost) by Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id RAA05038; Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:55:12 -0500 (EST) X-Authentication-Warning: Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu: jfieber owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 20 Jun 1996 17:55:11 -0500 (EST) From: John Fieber X-Sender: jfieber@Fieber-John.campusview.indiana.edu To: Duffy Penski cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Even better web pages! In-Reply-To: <199606201607.MAA10589@northshore.shore.net> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 20 Jun 1996, Duffy Penski wrote: > check out my newest pages at http://www.freebsd.org/~mpcd/ > o A drop-down list of mirrors which is based on javascript Clever! We do need a fallback for people without javascript or javascript disabled. A CGI that ships out a redirect should do the trick. In fact, I may prefer that method anyway so I can see what mirrors get used. > o more links on the left pane There are two sorts of links here: the main second level pages (About through Search) and then shortcuts to various key features. I'm not sure about some of the shortcuts, but regardless, they should somehow be distinguished. Also, Search and Quick Index should be together, probably at the bottom. "Spport Info." and "User and Developer Resources" are redundant. Delete the former, and change the latter to "Support Information". Next, with the frames, the width problem is aggrivated. On the second level pages that have a "graphic" text, eg the obtaining an installing, it might be good if the text were set in a couple lines. Finally, The graphic bar that appears on the second level pages, could we get a short version of that at the top of the left hand frame? Oh, just noticed, the www.freebsd.org link at the bottom of the left frame should load the page in the *right* frame. :) I think we almost have a winner! -john == jfieber@indiana.edu =========================================== == http://fallout.campusview.indiana.edu/~jfieber ================