Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 18:15:09 +0100 From: "Simon L. Nielsen" <simon@FreeBSD.org> To: Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org> Cc: cvs-doc@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, Joel Dahl <joel@FreeBSD.org>, Remko Lodder <remko@FreeBSD.org>, doc-committers@FreeBSD.org, Marc Fonvieille <blackend@FreeBSD.org> Subject: Re: cvs commit: www/share/sgml header.ent www/en/layout/css layout.css www/en index.xsl Message-ID: <20061204171508.GA1011@zaphod.nitro.dk> In-Reply-To: <20061204150810.P40536@fledge.watson.org> References: <200612031944.kB3Ji1Ma081957@repoman.freebsd.org> <45732F01.6040204@FreeBSD.org> <20061203223415.D69580@fledge.watson.org> <1165244130.691.40.camel@localhost> <20061204150810.P40536@fledge.watson.org>
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On 2006.12.04 15:41:08 +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > (1) The link between the FreeBSD Project and the FreeBSD Foundation. There > are really two goals here: to reinforce the relationship between the > project and the foundation in the eyes of the reader (up with "Community", > "Developers", etc), and to bring more traffic to the Foundation web site > through primve placement. For example, in the Old World Order, it was > actually quite difficult to find out about the Foundation and evaluate its > legitimacy by visiting the FreeBSD.org web site. A major sponsor might > easily look at the page and say "Foundation? Is it even related to the > Project?", which is undesirable. While the immediate goal is to raise > funds, the Foundation is about more than just fundraising, it's also about > sponsoring activities, and drawing the visitor to the more general > Foundation pages (and not just the donations page) is important. First, I bitched some on IRC about the change, but on further thought (a 20min trainride with nothing else to do helps to clear things up :-) ), I actually think the new location for the Foundation link is fine. Especially with the goal stated above in mind it seems like a good idea to make the link more prominent. We have to be careful not to overload the front page, but of course it's a balance act. > - Visually, despite being placed in nice spot on the page, the Donate > link is essentially lost. A clearly placed "Donate now!" link on the > FreeBSD.org front page probably makes more sense -- I'm not sure it > would best fit visually and am happy to leave that to someone else. Indeed, it actually took me some seconds to find now when I had to look for it. > (3) The news item on the fundraising drive -- I see this as no different > than any other news item, with the intention being to highlight on-going > stuff. The link here is directly to the current fundraising page, and the > fundraising drive is definitely "News", in as much as a current release is > news, a new developer is news, etc, and has to do with directing web > sitereaders to something particularly new or interesting. > > (4) The trademark acknowledgement. The text itself is required as part of > protecting the trademark whether or not the Foundation name is a link. > Given that the screen real estate is used whether or not it's a link, > making it a link probably does make sense. I agree with these two. Also, I doubt very many people even see the trademark notice on a normal visit to the page, which is at it should be, but it's still obvious for people who looks for it. -- Simon L. Nielsen
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