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Date:      Sat, 15 Oct 2005 12:01:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Tim Wilde <twilde@dyndns.com>
To:        freebsd-www@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: new web site - bring back the old one
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.63.0510151155290.96402@manganese.bos.dyndns.org>
In-Reply-To: <200510151649.03865.danchev@spnet.net>
References:  <4350D8D9.4040303@mail.ru> <200510151649.03865.danchev@spnet.net>

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On Sat, 15 Oct 2005, George Danchev wrote:

> Also seconded. That have been said way too many times by way too many
> people... nothing happend yet. Patches, comments and examples for the matter
> of that were not even being discussed [1]. So do not even try to check it out
> on any high resolution screens. Smash your high-res laptops, and your brand
> new 16:9 24in screeny if you happend to have any ;-)

I don't understand what you're talking about a huge gap of whitespace. 
I'm looking at it at 1600x1200 without any such "huge gap".  I see maybe 
20 pixels, and it does a good job of separating the sections of the page.

I think it's a far more professional looking and useful website than the 
old one.  As many of the developers who've worked on it have said, the old 
one was hideously over-cluttered, and had absolutely none of the qualities 
one looks for in a usable user interface.  I could NEVER find the 
handbook, FAQ, or mailing list links on the old page, now they're quick 
and easy to find.

If you hate having to click on multiple links so much, bookmark the 
sections that you use the most, and then you'll have the information right 
in front of you.  The information is organized in a logical manner, it's 
really not that hard to find, if you ignore the fact that the search 
engine is next to useless (which hasn't changed from the old design, and 
is being discussed).

The homepage of a web site is not designed for power users or people who 
use that site frequently, at least not as its first audience.  The first 
audience of a web site's homepage is NEW users, people who have never been 
to the site before, or who do not use it frequently, and the new design 
does a FAR better job than the old one of helping those users get into the 
site, and into FreeBSD.  In that regard, I think it does its job 
perfectly.

Tim Wilde

- -- 
Tim Wilde
twilde@dyndns.com
Systems Administrator
Dynamic Network Services, Inc.
http://www.dyndns.com/
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