From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Oct 6 21:49:32 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 90CAA16A45E for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:49:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from mail.scls.lib.wi.us (mail.scls.lib.wi.us [198.150.40.25]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id ECD0843D53 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 21:49:31 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Received: from [172.26.2.238] ([172.26.2.238]) by mail.scls.lib.wi.us (8.12.9p2/8.12.9) with ESMTP id j96LnVG1063653 for ; Thu, 6 Oct 2005 16:49:31 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from nalists@scls.lib.wi.us) Message-ID: <43459BEB.2090503@scls.lib.wi.us> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 16:49:31 -0500 From: Greg Barniskis User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org References: <43455D3E.5040007@mbnet.fi> <20051006204336.GA36557@neptune.atopia.net> In-Reply-To: <20051006204336.GA36557@neptune.atopia.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit 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: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 21:49:32 -0000 Dan Ponte (>) [with help from some others (>>)] wrote: >>A lot of stuff has been removed from plain sight which means >>more clicking and scrolling and searching and waiting. >>Oh yes, let's all start burying information.. I personally didn't have any problems grokking the new layout or finding anything I thought to look for. >>With Opera, about 40% of the screen space is left unused. This part I'd agree with. Too much white space around main content leads to too much scrolling. Let the text flow as wide as the user decides to; switch to %-based widths, not absolute pixel widths (the flip side of too much white space in a wide window is that the text don't wrap in a narrow window. ouch.). Observations made in Firefox. >>The old one was better. >> > I second that all the way. Personally, I feel that the FreeBSD project > is doing too much in the way of appearing "trendy" to attract new users, Can't disagree with these statements more. The old way, while rich, seemed way too densely packed. I think the changes should make it easier to zero in on what's needed, even if some content is one or two clicks deeper than it used to be. I doubt the primary goal here was to appear trendy. Thanks, Contributors! Now, if only the site Search worked better... ah well, there's always http://www.google.com/bsd -- Greg Barniskis, Computer Systems Integrator South Central Library System (SCLS) Library Interchange Network (LINK) , (608) 266-6348