From owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jun 24 17:55:14 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0DFBB106566B for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:55:14 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from lists@eitanadler.com) Received: from mail-ob0-f182.google.com (mail-ob0-f182.google.com [209.85.214.182]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B80558FC15 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:55:13 +0000 (UTC) Received: by obbun3 with SMTP id un3so6660373obb.13 for ; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:55:13 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=eitanadler.com; s=0xdeadbeef; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; bh=CkY2ZPep34yEWNQy5yUbbF7ZyGyTvygShRt0Dho+moY=; b=AlHsL66OStHujCkpRoguXC1l8I+P2cwSeFYOL2lxtVqIbOjdc6dzqLbSdQFcyMvVRp bxun++VJ8YM/OUB0gJkx0OUsAnjPPUoMxqwExwfoSWan8+PjYGY0j03HuLvKaJJJ40Ue x6UUROsRcDUZFir8bLZp2wP9FxYxzMW4uO+4Q= X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=google.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:from:date:message-id:subject:to :cc:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:x-gm-message-state; bh=CkY2ZPep34yEWNQy5yUbbF7ZyGyTvygShRt0Dho+moY=; b=ouCxGDyir9itR5AbK11ZE64X3/z/j4AT42RS7JSFTd/dogpcq2pkYR9t4qH8yswFJK aE/+7/8yRd0XJiKLudmihruKsbM5eCe96FNCA3BulLYjeIBaI3GKYc1JOKmTPNUyrPP6 6J4sY/0M8MctTWZoSkwMel4G+e5EXeleKyZGnBrKCPRsfk/r7P8aQCQLhITFMGIOa36G pnxCUol0+kv2UW+rcM1/eMhI7Tl/k77Y2dW1jvI3z7xls1e96yZNEWcKQV1wEzvAGxbq GPL5Jycqcl1FbcjsEFXn1CDWxZVYDEk8NCRnbCzjyae3mSU6nOO79gfKBGecohz6ccQj nN9w== Received: by 10.60.25.103 with SMTP id b7mr9467680oeg.44.1340560513359; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:55:13 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.182.125.70 with HTTP; Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:54:43 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <4FE73F2D.9020704@cran.org.uk> References: <20120608083519.GA8252@lonesome.com> <20120608113104.GA1720@night.db.net> <20120612221505.GA77335@night.db.net> <4FD7C615.2020209@FreeBSD.org> <4FE4BCAE.3020405@FreeBSD.org> <4FE73F2D.9020704@cran.org.uk> From: Eitan Adler Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 10:54:43 -0700 Message-ID: To: Bruce Cran Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Gm-Message-State: ALoCoQnBfpDudE2DXNnWo5jOh7n02iOHXUTBW3sLVnIpf0CzaMZsF1UIEMuGxuKUY+pLLB4CHmkk Cc: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Time for a fresh start, it's time folks X-BeenThere: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Documentation project List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 24 Jun 2012 17:55:14 -0000 On 24 June 2012 09:24, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 22/06/2012 19:42, Benedict Reuschling wrote: >> >> These things take time, but the webpages are not broken at the moment, >> just outdated. Hence a replacement should not be our top priority (at >> least, it's not mine). However, I would be interested to see some design >> studies if someone is interested in doing them to see what can be done. > > > Something we should consider during any redesign is whether we want to > continue using hover menus - > http://uxmovement.com/navigation/why-hover-menus-do-users-more-harm-than-= good/ > argues against them. > > Also, this can probably be easily fixed on the current site but the > Developers hover menu is out of sync with > http://www.freebsd.org/projects/index.html (which appears if you click th= e > Developers title) - the Repository links aren't available other than from > the hover menu. =C2=A0Also, "Release Engineering" is linked to from the "= Get > FreeBSD" menu but is on the "Developers" page. Agreed, but I think getting to this level of detail in the discussion may result in many bikesheds. Overall one of our requirements should be usability (of the "don't make me think" variety). --=20 Eitan Adler