Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:55:26 -0700 From: Murray Stokely <murray@freebsdmall.com> To: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New website Message-ID: <20051008015526.GE68496@freebsdmall.com> In-Reply-To: <20051008013442.GX72352@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> References: <20051008013442.GX72352@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au>
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On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:34:42AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 2) The default text size is too small. As other people have stated,
> if I've gone to the efford of setting up my browser to provide a text
> size that suits me, why should the website over-ride it? Clicking
> the 'large' text buton gives me back the text size I configured but
> only if I have Javascript and cookies enabled. The language choices
> also then wrap onto two lines. Again, this is a regression.
Do you have a specific suggestion about this issue? Some have
proposed leaving everything else the same but just defaulting to the
larger size. That would affect the layout a bit on the main page but
all the second level pages should be mostly unaffected (just larger).
> 3) Visited links are no longer displayed as visited. Another regression.
What color do you suggest for visited links? This one should be a one
line fix.
> The 'Donate' and 'Contact' links at the top need to be better
> distinguished from the 'text size' links. My suggestion would be to
> move the 'Donate' and 'Contact' links into the main menu bar (and
> get rid of the need for the text size links by not breaking the
> text size to start with).
Yea they probably aren't perfect there. I'm not sure you're
suggestion is perfect either though. I'd have to see a mock up. Care
to make one?
> in the bottom section of the screen, none of them are links so I still
> need to scroll down. How about converting all these headings to links?
That might be helpful. Each list ends with 'More foo...' and I
suppose we could also make the headings point to the same thing as the
'More foo...' links. I think it might be kind of link/underline
overload though as that would make every single english word in the
grey box (making up 50% of the screen) be a link.
> Overall, I'm disappointed at the regressions in the adaptability of
> the website - just because lots of other websites state "best viewed
Then let's fix them.
- Murray
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