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Date:      Sun, 11 Dec 2005 21:52:38 -0600
From:      linimon@lonesome.com (Mark Linimon)
To:        freebsd-www@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   RFC: proposed changes to the www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ web page
Message-ID:  <20051212035238.GA12035@soaustin.net>

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The current ports web page has several defects:

 - It is too long; the search bar and the category listing scroll off
   the page.

 - During the last rework, we gained the ability to see the categories
   listed by logical group but lost the ability to see them alphabetically.

 - Some important information (references) are missing.

 - The left-side menu is unsuited for the page.

The proposed rework fixes all the above.  It is a compromise design
between making the page useful (again) for experts, who will generally
want to come to the page(s) to search, and novices, who are referred to
the page from the main page of the website.  As such, I do not expect
that it will truly satisfy anyone.  However, IMHO it is a significant
improvement over the mess that is there.

The prototype is at http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/www/en/ports/.
The link to the actual serach cgi is not installed but if it was it would
be identical to http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/ports.cgi (unchanged).

While this is the type of change that could be endlessly debated, unless
there are strenuous objections I'd like to go ahead and commit what I
have in a few days as at least a starting point.

mcl



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