From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Dec 12 22:14:09 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 0487C16A41F for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:14:09 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: from av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ED2543D45 for ; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:14:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from joel@FreeBSD.org) Received: by av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 3D3AA37EDC; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:13:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net [81.228.9.101]) by av9-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 13C3337E97; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:13:59 +0100 (CET) Received: from t2o955p99.telia.com (t2o955p99.telia.com [195.252.52.219]) by smtp3-1-sn3.vrr.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 28E6537E46; Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:13:57 +0100 (CET) From: Joel Dahl To: Mark Linimon In-Reply-To: <20051212035238.GA12035@soaustin.net> References: <20051212035238.GA12035@soaustin.net> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 23:14:07 +0100 Message-Id: <1134425647.714.14.camel@dude.automatvapen.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.2.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RFC: proposed changes to the www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ web page 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: Mon, 12 Dec 2005 22:14:09 -0000 On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 21:52 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote: > The current ports web page has several defects: > > - It is too long; the search bar and the category listing scroll off > the page. > > - During the last rework, we gained the ability to see the categories > listed by logical group but lost the ability to see them alphabetically. > > - Some important information (references) are missing. > > - The left-side menu is unsuited for the page. > > The proposed rework fixes all the above. It is a compromise design > between making the page useful (again) for experts, who will generally > want to come to the page(s) to search, and novices, who are referred to > the page from the main page of the website. As such, I do not expect > that it will truly satisfy anyone. However, IMHO it is a significant > improvement over the mess that is there. > > The prototype is at http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/www/en/ports/. > The link to the actual serach cgi is not installed but if it was it would > be identical to http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/ports.cgi (unchanged). > > While this is the type of change that could be endlessly debated, unless > there are strenuous objections I'd like to go ahead and commit what I > have in a few days as at least a starting point. Looks good, no objections. -- Joel - joel at FreeBSD dot org