Date: Wed, 29 Dec 2004 10:52:08 +0100 From: Nicholas Wieland <nicholas_wieland@yahoo.it> To: John-Mark Gurney <gurney_j@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated? Message-ID: <20041229095208.GB803@pixie.subbacultcha.home> In-Reply-To: <20041228184712.GN19624@funkthat.com> References: <20041223112731.GA32750@ninja.terrabionic.com> <2d7d2dd2041223035969e056d8@mail.gmail.com> <41D0AF75.6040500@401.cx> <20041228184712.GN19624@funkthat.com>
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- John-Mark Gurney : > > Clearly, you have not tried to "sell" FreeBSD to a big corporation. > > Then we should create a website www.freebsdforcxo.com and use that. I think it's not a bad idea at all to have a different "pure-advocacy" website, something like advocacy.freebsd.org, Postgres has something similar and it's quite useful. > The problem is that the base FreeBSD.org website should remain as it > is. It is targeted to technical people who might not be running a GUI > web browser and want quick access to information. Like using accesskeys instead of a mouse ? I'm following the discussion and the only thing I see is people complaining without knowing the "medium" we're talking about, but "arguing" that the new web site will be crap for some reason (usually the wrong one). > Making it more pretty to sell, while destroying the usability for 99% > of the audience is not a solution. Agreed, but nobody wants to "destroy the usability", first of all because the current website is unusable (content is badly organized, the layout is inside the markup), second because I bet that someone here is good at web programming/design as someone else in developing an operating system :) I'm redesigning the web site, I'm not using Flash or some other crap, if the redesign performs bad on Lynx or Links I will consider it a bug that needs a fix, while correcting everything that in my opinion needs to be corrected on the current website. To be honest I think that this iperconservative attitude is useless, it would be good to have technical comments when people comes up with something usable. I speak for me, and *I* will be pleased to discuss every issue on my redesign. HAND, ngw -- checking for life_signs in -lKenny... no Oh my god, make (1) killed Kenny ! You, bastards ! nicholas_wieland-at-yahoo-dot-it
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