Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1999 11:31:06 +0100 (CET) From: Stephane Legrand <Stephane.Legrand@wanadoo.fr> To: doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Possible change to first page on site Message-ID: <199901041031.LAA00470@sequoia.mondomaineamoi.megalo> In-Reply-To: <19990104161332.62077@welearn.com.au> References: <12300.915050871@zippy.cdrom.com> <368D5457.B4FD24F5@aei.ca> <19990102130428.B26221@panke.de.freebsd.org> <19990102234426.42040@welearn.com.au> <3690441F.2DF78A10@aei.ca> <19990104161332.62077@welearn.com.au>
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Sue Blake writes: > On Sun, Jan 03, 1999 at 11:31:27PM -0500, Malartre wrote: > > Sue Blake wrote: > > > > > > On Sat, Jan 02, 1999 at 01:04:28PM +0100, Wolfram Schneider wrote: > > > > On 1999-01-01 18:03:51 -0500, Malartre wrote: > > > > > > > > > One last thing, why not changing Getting FreeBSD to Installing FreeBSD? > > > > > I'm not an English expert(hehe), but "Installing" or something with > > > > > "Install" would be better than "Getting". > > > > > > > > Good idea. > > > > > > Getting FreeBSD sounds safer to me. > > > > > > First timers won't follow the link about installing. They think > > > download-then-install so it seems obvious to them that they have to > > > "get" it first, or at least check out where it is and how big the > > > freebsd.zip file is :-) Remove "get" and expect more of them to write > > > to -questions asking how to get it. Leave "Getting FreeBSD" there, and > > > we can trick some of them into actually going to the installation > > > instructions. > > > > > > -- > > > > > > Regards, > > > -*Sue*- > > Ok Sue, I'll follow that way: I have a demo of what it could be to > > really answer "damn, where do they hide freebsd.zip!". > > http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/ > > http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/newbies/whatis.html > > http://www.aei.ca/~malartre/var/newbies/nozip.html > > The two first link in the FreeBSD! section are made by me, and are not > > perfect, but has I said, this is just a demo :-) > > You have some good ideas there. I particularly like the "Quick Answers" > in whatis.html, but I fear that while they will make good sense to > microsoft refugees they will cause seasoned FreeBSD users to cringe :-) > I'd love to see something short, direct and windows-understandable > like this, close to the web site's entry point. > > My other approach was to give the misunderstanding strays something > more readable that will keep everyone out of each other's hair long > enough to get a few things into perspective. Draft: > http://www.welearn.com.au/freebsd/win.html > > Just a suggestion : could the first page become a CGI script which look at the browser name ("HTTP_USER_AGENT") and send a special newby page for the Window$ or Mac browsers ? -- Stephane.Legrand@wanadoo.fr | FreeBSD Francophone http://perso.wanadoo.fr/stephane.legrand/ | http://www.freebsd-fr.org/ "Laissez les developpeurs developpes et les octets seront bien gardes" To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message
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