From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jan 8 14:41:45 2005 Return-Path: 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 21B9316A4CE; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:41:45 +0000 (GMT) Received: from Kain.sumuk.de (Kain.sumuk.de [213.221.86.114]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C412A43D2F; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 14:41:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from vincent@sumuk.de) Received: from Goliath.earth.sol (Goliath.earth.sol [192.168.1.6]) by Kain.sumuk.de (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j08EfWbb051405; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:41:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent@sumuk.de) Received: from Goliath.earth.sol (localhost.earth.sol [127.0.0.1]) by Goliath.earth.sol (8.12.11/8.12.10) with ESMTP id j08EfWbO075415; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:41:32 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent@Goliath.earth.sol) Received: (from vincent@localhost) by Goliath.earth.sol (8.12.11/8.12.11/Submit) id j08EfRdT075414; Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:41:27 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from vincent) Date: Sat, 8 Jan 2005 15:41:27 +0100 From: Martin Heinen To: Chris Zumbrunn Message-ID: <20050108144127.GA75006@sumuk.de> References: <736EAA55-5B8B-11D9-ACB2-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> <20050102110732.GB861@zaphod.nitro.dk> <20050103232207.GA44980@gothmog.gr> <9FC79942-5DE3-11D9-BEAB-000A95C969C6@zumbrunn.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i cc: Giorgos Keramidas cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org cc: "Simon L.Nielsen" Subject: Re: Rework of the FreeBSD website [was:FreeBSD'sVisualIdentity:Outdated?] X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org, Giorgos Keramidas , "Simon L.Nielsen" List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Jan 2005 14:41:45 -0000 On Wed, Jan 05, 2005 at 10:46:28AM +0100, Chris Zumbrunn wrote: > The html versions are now available from the following URLs: > > http://top.ch/sitedata/freebsd/freebsdweb1e.html > http://top.ch/sitedata/freebsd/freebsdweb2e.html > > How does that look? I like it, but there are things I don't like: Removing underlines from hypertext links makes it impossible to tell wether a heading in the navigation columns is a link or not. We could require that all elements of the navigation are links, but I would like links in the running text to show normal behaviour (underlined and blue). Also, we are very good at hiding our search box. IMHO, the search box has to be placed in the upper right corner. We could make this corner less crowded by shortening "Select a server near you:" to "Mirrors". Then we could place a sufficiently large search box (say twenty characters) in that corner. I think, a mix between your work and Simon's work (http://simon.nitro.dk/freebsd/webexp/) will look good. I would like a header showing the logo, the language and mirror selection and maybe the gray navigation bar. Below that a two column layout is sufficient, moving the leftovers from Simon's approach into the text column. -- Marxpitn