From owner-freebsd-www@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Oct 8 01:55:26 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF85316A41F for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 01:55:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from murray@freebsdmall.com) Received: from mail.freebsdmall.com (ns1.freebsdmall.com [69.50.233.146]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C40843D45 for ; Sat, 8 Oct 2005 01:55:26 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from murray@freebsdmall.com) Received: by mail.freebsdmall.com (Postfix, from userid 2074) id 8EA771CC67; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:55:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:55:26 -0700 From: Murray Stokely To: Peter Jeremy Message-ID: <20051008015526.GE68496@freebsdmall.com> References: <20051008013442.GX72352@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051008013442.GX72352@cirb503493.alcatel.com.au> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-GPG-Key-ID: 1024D/0E451F7D X-GPG-Key-Fingerprint: E2CA 411D DD44 53FD BB4B 3CB5 B4D7 10A2 0E45 1F7D Cc: freebsd-www@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New website X-BeenThere: freebsd-www@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: FreeBSD Project Webmasters List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 08 Oct 2005 01:55:27 -0000 On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:34:42AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote: > 2) The default text size is too small. As other people have stated, > if I've gone to the efford of setting up my browser to provide a text > size that suits me, why should the website over-ride it? Clicking > the 'large' text buton gives me back the text size I configured but > only if I have Javascript and cookies enabled. The language choices > also then wrap onto two lines. Again, this is a regression. Do you have a specific suggestion about this issue? Some have proposed leaving everything else the same but just defaulting to the larger size. That would affect the layout a bit on the main page but all the second level pages should be mostly unaffected (just larger). > 3) Visited links are no longer displayed as visited. Another regression. What color do you suggest for visited links? This one should be a one line fix. > The 'Donate' and 'Contact' links at the top need to be better > distinguished from the 'text size' links. My suggestion would be to > move the 'Donate' and 'Contact' links into the main menu bar (and > get rid of the need for the text size links by not breaking the > text size to start with). Yea they probably aren't perfect there. I'm not sure you're suggestion is perfect either though. I'd have to see a mock up. Care to make one? > in the bottom section of the screen, none of them are links so I still > need to scroll down. How about converting all these headings to links? That might be helpful. Each list ends with 'More foo...' and I suppose we could also make the headings point to the same thing as the 'More foo...' links. I think it might be kind of link/underline overload though as that would make every single english word in the grey box (making up 50% of the screen) be a link. > Overall, I'm disappointed at the regressions in the adaptability of > the website - just because lots of other websites state "best viewed Then let's fix them. - Murray