From owner-freebsd-chat Fri Jun 7 20:42:22 1996 Return-Path: owner-chat Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id UAA29590 for chat-outgoing; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 20:42:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.131.181]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id UAA29576; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 20:42:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from emu.fsl.noaa.gov (kelly@emu.fsl.noaa.gov [137.75.60.32]) by gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id DAA28453; Sat, 8 Jun 1996 03:42:14 GMT Message-Id: <199606080342.DAA28453@gatekeeper.fsl.noaa.gov> Received: by emu.fsl.noaa.gov (1.40.112.3/16.2) id AA106465332; Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:42:13 -0600 Date: Fri, 7 Jun 1996 21:42:13 -0600 From: Sean Kelly To: jkh@time.cdrom.com Cc: mpcd@freebsd.org, chat@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <16878.834188774@time.cdrom.com> (jkh@time.cdrom.com) Subject: Re: Snazzier FreeBSD home page Sender: owner-chat@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >>>>> "Jordan" == "Jordan K Hubbard" writes: Jordan> Yes, I think that presentation is important too, whatever Jordan> some other folks might say. :-) Hope they weren't referring to personal appearance ... ;-) Jordan> What do you think it'd take to give these Jordan> proposed pages the same "professional feel" (or, ideally, Jordan> a *more* professional feel :-)? *More* would be more better! :-) Jordan> Just the font changes you list above, or something more? Well, I did list more than just font changes ... but since you asked (you're going to regret this! :-), how about the following: Aside from the font changes, the cleanup of the copyright area, etc., I think a bit more uniformity might help. Let me explain: we have the standard FreeBSD links down the left of the page, making use of that visual element of the circle with the connected line. But then we have that 3-by-3 bulleted list featuring `Handbook', `FAQ', etc. They're a bit too disparate. If the bulleted items *also* used the same (or a similar) visual element they would help unify the page into a coherent whole. Finally, the page is a bit like one of my old girlfriends: a bit bottom-heavy. This is likely due to the badges of honor (VIP, UGU, Walnut Creek, etc.) being so colorful and occupying a fair chunk of real estate. I can see they've been sized down from their usual prominences, so let's not make 'em any smaller. Instead, we could try enlarging the FreeBSD.org part to balance things out. It'd help the eye linger a bit more on the material and track in a top-to-bottom fashion instead of immediately glancing through the other web sites available just a mere click away at the end of the page. Also, one small bug: pressing `FreeBSD QuickLinks' three times gives JavaScript Error: http://www.freebsd.org/~mpcd/, line 57: RepPal is not defined. That's on Netscape Navigator Atlas Preview Release 1 running on FreeBSD 2.1. Take care! -- Sean Kelly NOAA Forecast Systems Laboratory kelly@fsl.noaa.gov Boulder Colorado USA http://www-sdd.fsl.noaa.gov/~kelly/