Date: Tue, 12 Dec 2000 13:03:42 -0500 (EST) From: Tim McMillen <timcm@umich.edu> To: Ernst de Haan <ernst@jollem.com> Cc: mikel <mikel@ocsinternet.com>, Anthony Rubin <tonyr@generalsearch.net>, Roop Nanuwa <roop@gw.carpoolbc.com>, Artem Koutchine <matrix@ipform.ru>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Information, new, propaganda:) Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.4.10.10012121249090.11146-100000@gorf.gpcc.itd.umich.edu> In-Reply-To: <20001212180100.A6048@c187104187.telekabel.chello.nl>
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Guys, not to rain on your parade, but people come up with the idea to change the website once every other month or so. I usually fails because people just want to whine and not do anything themselves. But more importantly, changes to the website will never be accepted unless they do the things that the website was designed to do. So if you don't know what goals the page is after how can you do a better job at that? The page needs to work in text browsers and even on various wireless services. It does that quite well. It is also desinged as a reference site. It is great at that, especially when you have spent some time there and know what information is to be found where. I've seen other things mentioned that the page must do, but I can't find the message in the archives right now. Try asking what some of the other design objectives of the site are, only then can you improve it. I don't know but maybe try asking on freebsd-doc@ That way you could be contributing instead of complaining. Probably the only thing that could really improve the website is better organization of information on it. A good way to help with this may be to analyze the traffic patterns on the site and make quicker paths from the main page to the most used spots. Or analyze how newbies interact with it (or fail to.) and improve the paths to the information they need, or the noticibility of those paths. When you take into account all the things the page is supposed to do you will find it is not all that bad. Could use a little improvement, but what couldn't. Tim On Tue, 12 Dec 2000, Ernst de Haan wrote: > Hi Mikel and all, > > My experience includes JSP, servlets, (Netscapre && Exploder)-friendly HTML, > XML and CSS. No experience with XSLT. I have a 24/7 low-bandwidth server > available too for mirroring or whatever, it has ftp, http, ssh and cvs > running. > > Ernst > > > mikel wrote: > > I wouldn't mind throughing my hands in the port as well... http://www.ocsny.com > > <--- runs on fBSD, the site is almost entirely stored in MySql and accessed via > > PHP. I am even in a position to offer some server space if necessary. > > > > Cheers, > > Mikel > > > > Ernst de Haan wrote: > > > > > +1 > > > > > > Perhaps I would be able to lend a hand too. I have done quite some website > > > design in the past (including http://www.jollem.com/). > > > > > > Ernst > > > > > > Anthony Rubin wrote: > > > > I don't get the impression that FreeBSD is targeted at the desktop, although > > > > I noticed a desktop edition in the FreeBSD mall. I think the number one use > > > > for FreeBSD is probably as some kind of Internet server and it serves this > > > > purpose well. > > > > > > > > As far as the web site goes, I definitely think it could be redesigned. I am > > > > willing to donate some of my time for this purpose, but in the past it seems > > > > that ideas are often shot down because of lack of anything to actually show. > > > > My proposal would be for a group of us to get together who are interested in > > > > pursuing this further and start to develop a plan and some sample designs. > > > > Once it is to a point where there is something to show we can let people take > > > > a look and hopefully we can convince the right people that this is the > > > > direction that we need to go in. > > > > -- > > > > Anthony Rubin > > > > GeneralSearch.Com, Inc. > > > > tonyr@generalsearch.net > > > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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