From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Mar 3 08:51:32 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 74AC616A4CE for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:51:32 +0000 (GMT) Received: from engine140.deployzone.net (engine140.deployzone.net [193.17.85.140]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 777C043D2F for ; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 08:51:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from chris@czv.com) Received: from adsl-212-90-218-5.cybernet.ch [212.90.218.5] by engine140.deployzone.net; Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:49:57 +0100 In-Reply-To: <1109832772.3932.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <9C4E897FB284BF4DBC9C0DC42FB34617641B5B@mvaexch01.acuson.com> <5.1.0.14.2.20050302124137.0f2ad860@209.152.117.178> <20050303033920.GB1280@over-yonder.net> <1109832772.3932.14.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v619.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Message-Id: <697c1c6dd69c56a4f68e3829f57509e0@czv.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chris Zumbrunn Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2005 09:51:26 +0100 To: "Devon H. O'Dell" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.619.2) cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org cc: "Matthew D.Fuller" Subject: Re: Logo idea and FreeBSD.com concept X-BeenThere: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Evangelism List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Mar 2005 08:51:32 -0000 On Mar 3, 2005, at 7:52 AM, Devon H. O'Dell wrote: > There are good arguments on each side for static versus variable > widths. > My intent with the site was to create a statically-sized front page and > have real-content pages take advantage of the screen size if they can. I agree with earlier comments that designing a web page not to scale is the lazy solution. It can be challenging to implement an optimal design that scales well. From the "marketing" point of view, I'd say a well designed page that doesn't scale is better than a badly designed page that does scale. But best is a well designed page that does also scale well. Now, freebsd.org currently does scale (with the changes in my recommended patch it scales slightly better). I don't think that it should be our priority to make freebsd.org not scale. Instead we should improve its design. After that, and with a shift towards better use of CSS, we can further improve the scaling as well - and add some good marketing content, white papers, solution guides, success stories! We have a huge white space in the smak middle of the front page reserved for pretty marketing content - which just needs to be produced. In my opinion, this is where the design ideas presented in this thread should be implemented. chris@czv.com +41 329 41 41 41 Chris Zumbrunn Ventures - http://www.czv.com/ Internet Application Technology - Reduced to the Maximum