Date: Sun, 03 Jan 1999 23:31:27 -0500 From: Malartre <malartre@aei.ca> To: Sue Blake <sue@welearn.com.au> Cc: Wolfram Schneider <wosch@panke.de.freebsd.org>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com>, Nik Clayton <nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk>, doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible change to first page on site Message-ID: <3690441F.2DF78A10@aei.ca> References: <12300.915050871@zippy.cdrom.com> <368D5457.B4FD24F5@aei.ca> <19990102130428.B26221@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990102234426.42040@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake wrote: > > On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > On 1999-01-01 18:03:51 -0500, Malartre wrote: > > > > > One last thing, why not changing Getting FreeBSD to Installing FreeBSD? > > > I'm not an English expert(hehe), but "Installing" or something with > > > "Install" would be better than "Getting". > > > > Good idea. > > Getting FreeBSD sounds safer to me. > > First timers won't follow the link about installing. They think > download-then-install so it seems obvious to them that they have to > "get" it first, or at least check out where it is and how big the > freebsd.zip file is :-) Remove "get" and expect more of them to write > to -questions asking how to get it. Leave "Getting FreeBSD" there, and > we can trick some of them into actually going to the installation > instructions. > > -- > > Regards, > -*Sue*- Ok Sue, I'll follow that way: I have a demo of what it could be to really answer "damn, where do they hide freebsd.zip!". http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/ http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/newbies/whatis.html http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/newbies/nozip.html The two first link in the FreeBSD! section are made by me, and are not perfect, but has I said, this is just a demo :-) -- [Malartre][malartre@aei.ca][http://www.lowrent.org/freebsd/malartre/ [LowRent.Org is down...] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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