From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Jul 23 11:51:02 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org 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 A85EE16A41F for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:51:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soc-emily@freebsd.org) Received: from vorlon.rememberthemilk.com (vorlon.rememberthemilk.com [72.21.39.91]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 47E1D43D49 for ; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:51:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from soc-emily@freebsd.org) Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by vorlon.rememberthemilk.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 008C9D4005; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:51:02 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vorlon.rememberthemilk.com ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (vorlon.rememberthemilk.com [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 02717-10; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:51:00 +0000 (UTC) Received: from [192.168.0.2] (204.cust80.nsw.dsl.ozemail.com.au [203.103.233.204]) by vorlon.rememberthemilk.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 596A7D4001; Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:50:57 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <42E22F21.5020606@freebsd.org> Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 21:50:57 +1000 From: Emily Boyd User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "W. D." References: <20050722153420.GI21388@freebsdmall.com> <42E10467.3050109@freebsd.org> <20050722152333.GG594@gothic.blackend.org> <20050722152830.GH594@gothic.blackend.org> <20050722153420.GI21388@freebsdmall.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20050722180855.085fd9f0@209.152.117.178> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20050722180855.085fd9f0@209.152.117.178> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at rememberthemilk.com Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD design proposal X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 23 Jul 2005 11:51:02 -0000 W.D., > Are these templates going to be user friendly? That is, since > different individuals are responsible for updating different > sections, can they do so easily, unencumbered by the formatting > method? Yes. > Some other comments and considerations: > > I did a quick scan of the HTML on PostgreSQL.org. There were a > number of errors that hopefully would not be duplicated on > FreeBSD.org: > > http://tinyurl.com/bmgrg or: > > PostgreSQL.org is valid XHTML, or at least was when it was handed over to the website maintainers back in January :) > During a link check of PostgreSQL.org I found a number of > improperly terminated URLs. The web server software is > smart enough to redirect, but this does take a little > extra time and CPU cycles: That was thanks to a limitation of the CMS that PostgreSQL.org uses, which could not handle some of the URLs if they had the / on the end. > The mockups have a good overall color scheme--good work! As > mentioned previously, if FreeBSD decides to implement a logo > in addition to the mascot, will there need to be a drastic > change in the format? Hopefully the changes wouldn't need to be too drastic, but I'm prepared to rework the design once a new logo is decided on. > PostgreSQL.org is 'graphics heavy'. By this I mean that there > are a number of places where HTML text could be used in place > of graphics. There are a number of reasons for this, such as: > automatic sizing in various sized browser windows, and better > search engine placement. More discussion here: > The images necessary to produce the FreeBSD design are minimal (10-15KB maximum for the homepage), and images would not be used for headings. Emily