From owner-freebsd-advocacy Thu May 14 21:45:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id VAA04719 for freebsd-advocacy-outgoing; Thu, 14 May 1998 21:45:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gamma.aei.ca (root@gamma.aei.ca [206.123.6.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id VAA04682 for ; Thu, 14 May 1998 21:45:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from malartre@aei.ca) Received: from aei.ca (kaput@pm01-16.aei.ca [206.123.6.116]) by gamma.aei.ca (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id AAA07521; Fri, 15 May 1998 00:45:26 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <355BC841.69391239@aei.ca> Date: Fri, 15 May 1998 00:44:49 -0400 From: Malartre X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.04 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Kriston J. Rehberg" CC: advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux as a Mozilla total reference platform References: <199805100839.CAA16237@lariat.lariat.org> <199805101059.DAA01506@rah.star-gate.com> <6824-Mon11May1998210214-0400-kriston@ibm.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG FreeBSD.ORG need a change. It need to have a more conveniant interface and a WIDTH=600 is the standard. Even Linux.org and microsoft.com use it. Sorry for repeating Sue ;-) WIDTH WIDTH WIDTH! If you need people, I'm with you to change the look, e-mail me. Who is in charge of the web page? cya Malartre Kriston J. Rehberg wrote: > Well, I'm a web developer, and I'm fairly impressed by the current > freebsd.org. Of course, it could be made more impressive to Johnny > Corporate. If it makes you feel better, freebsd.org is not as > horribly presented as openbsd.org, which looks like a throw-away > student web page compared to almost anything else. > > But back to freebsd.org. There isn't much advocacy there. The search > engine is atrocious; the way it follows threads is by searching on > Message-ID and it just doesn't seem to work. The selection of the > search criteria, as well as whether to search mailing lists or > manuals, is just too darn chatty and prone to user errors (like, > "Wait, I didn't search the mailing list, what's going on?"). > > Just my opinion. You can tear apart my web site if you feel like you > have to. > > Kris > > Amancio Hasty writes: > >The challenge is to change the sleeper type attitude on this group with > >respect to marketing and to get advocacy type messages out on the > >world . > > > >For example, we *really* need to change http://www.freebsd.org > >to convey a feeling of activity and success around FreeBSD. I posted > >a simple request for someone to volunteer to revamp the web page and > >got ZERO response. Why is that? Is it because the group is lazy when > >it comes to promoting FreeBSD , the group does not understand the > >importance of demonstrating the capability and success of FreeBSD, or > >we don't have any web developers? I sincerely believe that the > >answer to my question is (a) we are lazy when it comes to promoting > >FreeBSD. > > > >Now, if this was a Linux forum , I bet we would have had by now several > >dozen volunteers for the task . I believe thats the biggest difference > >between FreeBSD and Linux . > > > > > > Amancio > > > > > > > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > >with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message > > > > -- > Kriston J. Rehberg > AOL: Kriston http://kriston.net/ > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message -- -------------------------------------------------- malartre@aei.ca ICQ #4224434 www.aei.ca/~malartre/ FreeBSD 4 Newbies project Windows_95-B Unix FreeBSD-2.2.6 -------------------------------------------------- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-advocacy" in the body of the message