From owner-freebsd-doc Wed Jun 24 12:22:41 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA10221 for freebsd-doc-outgoing; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:22:41 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from phoenix.welearn.com.au (suebla.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.44.81]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA10111 for ; Wed, 24 Jun 1998 12:22:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from sue@phoenix.welearn.com.au) Received: (from sue@localhost) by phoenix.welearn.com.au (8.8.5/8.8.5) id FAA15333; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 05:21:27 +1000 (EST) Message-ID: <19980625052123.12105@welearn.com.au> Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 05:21:23 +1000 From: Sue Blake To: Wolfram Schneider Cc: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: New home page design References: <19980624165018.A10393@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.88e In-Reply-To: <19980624165018.A10393@caramba.cs.tu-berlin.de>; from Wolfram Schneider on Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 04:50:18PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Wed, Jun 24, 1998 at 04:50:18PM +0200, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > http://www.freebsd.org/~wosch/w/bsd.html > The page based on ideas from malartre and John Fieber. > > I don't know if we need the 'Getting FreeBSD', FAQ and handbook > buttons. Comments? I think they're handy... if I'm seeing what you're referring to. It's good to have all those links on the first page. I have observed a few difficulties though: The list box for the countries appears half way down the main body of text, obscuring part of the paragraph which comes before "Easy to install" The links on the left might be easier to read of they had bullets or some kind of separator. For example, it's hard to get the meaning when I see: ... Getting FreeBSD Installation Supported Hardware Current Releases Ported Applications Commercial Documents ... My browser seems to have been prevented from displaying this page optimally. All the text is bunched up on the left, and the entire right half of the browser window is glaring white space. The old page did not cause this to happen. On another machine, I can only see the column on the left and half of each line of text on the right unless I keep scrolling left and right. Again, this did not happen with the old page. We have discussed the cause and its simple solution a million times. Content is *the* most important consideration (and it's good), however we are supposed to be an organisation that has slightly higher than average technical competence. I'm not attracted to an operating system written by someone who doesn't appear to have overcome the beginner's misconception that HTML controls screen layout. Unless you provide me with the hardware that the page was designed for, you have no way of knowing what my screen can do or how my browser has been configured to display HTML. -- Regards, -*Sue*- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message