Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2001 11:14:52 +0100 From: Nik Clayton <nik@freebsd.org> To: Martin Horcicka <horcicka@FreeBSD.CZ> Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New homepage Message-ID: <20010808111452.K23891@canyon.nothing-going-on.org> In-Reply-To: <20010808093650.C61030-100000@dual.ms.mff.cuni.cz>; from horcicka@FreeBSD.CZ on Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:30:59AM %2B0200 References: <20010808093650.C61030-100000@dual.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Wed, Aug 08, 2001 at 10:30:59AM +0200, Martin Horcicka wrote: > 1. Does the page really validate to HTML 3.2? I did not try it but I see > some table with a bgcolor attribute which is not allowed (I think) in 3.2. I've changed the doctype to the transitional 4.01 one, which fixes that. > 2. Would it be possible to shorten the main text column? It is much larger > than the left and right column and it contains nothing but advertising info > and while looking on professional web sites (www.cisco.com, www.sun.com,...) > I think this is not the way homepages are designed today. Maybe, this is the > right time to redesign the homepage more deeply. All replacements gratefully accepted. You don't need to change index.xsl, I'm happy to look at mockups that show peoples ideas of how the website should appear. > 3. At least 3/4 of information in the Headlines section (and News Flash page) > is "New committer...". Is it really so exciting to be on homepage? Maybe the > news going to homepage should be a bit filtered and then the Headlines section > should not be so big because of very slow growth of messages per month. There > would be then no need for the third column - the second column would contain > both - headlines and advertising (or other) info. I'm hoping that the increased prominence given to the newsflash items will encourage people to write more of them, now that it's much more likely that visitors to the site will see them. > 4. Will be there some "standard" way to create web pages from xml sources in > www/share/mk instead of local Makefiles? Yes, but I don't know what it is yet. I expect to use XML/XSL in a few more places on the site, such as the vendors section. When that's done I hope to have a better understanding of what information is common to each transformation, and what needs to be specific to each one. I also want to put in hooks to allow people to use a different XSLT processor if they want to. Again, suggestions and comments gratefully received. N -- FreeBSD: The Power to Serve http://www.freebsd.org/ FreeBSD Documentation Project http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/ --- 15B8 3FFC DDB4 34B0 AA5F 94B7 93A8 0764 2C37 E375 --- [-- Attachment #2 --] -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.6 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjtxERsACgkQk6gHZCw343U3/QCeO2EelShkcng24vN8S/IwGrlM +PkAoJTuBX4KuvCol4gnVSUev6mnRQyd =U3Tp -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----help
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