From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 7 18:41:01 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 978AE16A41F; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:41:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from smtp3.server.rpi.edu (smtp3.server.rpi.edu [128.113.2.3]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3335E43D46; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 18:41:01 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gad@FreeBSD.org) Received: from [128.113.24.47] (gilead.netel.rpi.edu [128.113.24.47]) by smtp3.server.rpi.edu (8.13.0/8.13.0) with ESMTP id j97Iexvh016861; Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:41:00 -0400 Mime-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: In-Reply-To: <20051006224214.GD8320@freebsdmall.com> References: <43455D3E.5040007@mbnet.fi> <20051006204336.GA36557@neptune.atopia.net> <20051006213326.GA33286@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051006213740.GA37835@neptune.atopia.net> <20051006214904.GB33546@xor.obsecurity.org> <20051006221541.GA38659@neptune.atopia.net> <20051006224214.GD8320@freebsdmall.com> Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 14:40:58 -0400 To: Murray Stokely , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.org From: Garance A Drosehn Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" ; format="flowed" X-CanItPRO-Stream: default X-RPI-SA-Score: undef - spam-scanning disabled X-Scanned-By: CanIt (www . canit . ca) on 128.113.2.3 Cc: Subject: Re: new FreeBSD-webpage X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 18:41:01 -0000 At 3:42 PM -0700 10/6/05, Murray Stokely wrote: >On Thu, Oct 06, 2005, Dan Ponte wrote: > > One idea is to revert to the old design, which suited people's > > needs just fine. However, I doubt that will happen. > >Uhm, it didn't suit people's needs just fine. It was total crap >with dozens of disorganized links all over the front page and >second level pages topping 100k as they had just grown larger >and larger over time and noone had stepped back to look at how >bad it all was for someone coming to the site for the first >time to find any useful information. I agree with Murray. I'm sure the new design can be improved upon some more, but the previous web pages had gotten to the point that they actively annoyed me. Too large, too much info crammed into some of the pages. I have been saving URL's directly to some inner web pages, for no other reason than to avoid bringing up the main web page. And once you're AVOIDING the web page, then it doesn't much matter how much info was crammed into it. -- Garance Alistair Drosehn = gad@gilead.netel.rpi.edu Senior Systems Programmer or gad@FreeBSD.org Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute; Troy, NY; USA