From owner-freebsd-advocacy@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Dec 24 16:09:36 2004 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 8108C16A4CE; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:09:36 +0000 (GMT) Received: from smtpq2.home.nl (smtpq2.home.nl [213.51.128.197]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD17B43D2F; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:09:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dodell@sitetronics.com) Received: from [213.51.128.132] (port=38963 helo=smtp1.home.nl) by smtpq2.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Chs0N-00038B-LI; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:09:27 +0100 Received: from cc740438-a.deven1.ov.home.nl ([82.75.136.183]:4159 helo=[192.168.1.42]) by smtp1.home.nl with esmtp (Exim 4.30) id 1Chs0M-0003XW-Ft; Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:09:26 +0100 Message-ID: <41CC3F35.7010304@sitetronics.com> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 17:09:25 +0100 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Seaman References: <41CBE567.9080006@infracaninophile.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <41CBE567.9080006@infracaninophile.co.uk> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Please contact support@home.nl for more information X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:53:43 +0000 cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org cc: Chris cc: Ted Mittelstaedt cc: Daniel Blendea cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org cc: jsha cc: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org cc: Nikolas Britton cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Paul Richards Subject: Re: FreeBSD's Visual Identity: Outdated? 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: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 16:09:36 -0000 Matthew Seaman wrote: > Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: > >> I think there's more FreeBSD installations than Apple installations, >> way, way more. Obscurity is in the eye of the beholder. And talk is >> cheap. The FreeBSD documentation team has already asked the FreeBSD >> community to do a site redesign, see here: >> >> http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/current.html#website-css >> >> Nobody has stepped up to do it. Since your so hot to redesign the >> site why don't you e-mail them and get going on doing it instead of >> talking about it? > > > Errr... Not so. Admittedly, this was posted just a few days ago, but > people are working on CSS-izing the FreeBSD.org web site: > > > http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-doc/2004-December/006616.html > > Elsewhere on this thread there has been some talk about organizing a > design competition to see who can come up with the best concept for the > site. Strikes me that a good way to do that would be along the lines of > this competition to redesign the W3.org site: > > http://w3mix.web-graphics.com/entries.php > > ie. take the existing content and write a style sheet to present it in > the best possible way. > > Cheers, > > Matthew I'm going to be drawing up the rules for the competition soon. I think the best way to do it would indeed be to just create an HTML 4.01 Strict-compliant page and ask people to do CSS for it -- as might be done for csszengarden.com. Kind regards, Devon H. O'Dell