Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 15:47:46 +0200 From: "Devon H. O'Dell" <dodell@sitetronics.com> To: Paul Robinson <p.robinson@mmu.ac.uk> Cc: freebsd-advocacy@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The Website Message-ID: <40697A82.2070402@sitetronics.com> In-Reply-To: <002f01c4165c$a0c0d1d0$6f01a8c0@miter.local> References: <002f01c4165c$a0c0d1d0$6f01a8c0@miter.local>
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Paul Robinson wrote: > [snip; poor formatting] > > > Well, this is the problem FreeBSD generally has. A lot of people would > actually like to see more developers move to FreeBSD and contribute to > the project. It then follows that as the "product" improves, we are able > to see a rise in the number of users. Pedantic, yes, but I'm becoming > less convinced of the need for us to get FreeBSD onto the family PC. I > would like to see it on a lot more developer's desks though. And in more companies. FreeBSD is already used by many (large) companies (including those in the Fortune 500). I know that even MS uses FreeBSD for the SFU software. > [snip; poor formatting] > > > Won't you expect the competition's product to be a better alternative to > the one you currently use? Do you honestly believe that OS choice is > dependent on what the website looks like? If so, how did Mandrake ever > take off? I have to agree here. > [snip; poor formatting] >> the moment it looks like a three column url listing with no >> really strong visual cues to things important to capturing, >> converting, and supporting new users. > > > Well, you know what the answer is then, don't you? You can grab the > source, talk to the web team, produce a better version. Remember it has > to be readable in text browsers, conform to WAI and Internationalisation > standards and everyone has to agree by mutual consent it's a better > design than the existing one. AMEN. This is a bikeshed that gets discussed every 6 or so months. Search advocacy@, doc@ and any number of other mailing lists for the amount of complaints about the webpage. As per the suggestion always posted that the FreeBSD page is too ``simple,'' my answer remains: http://www.google.com http://www.sun.com Simple, huh? As I stated on your other thread regarding the post on the ZDNet.au site; if you can't put up, shut up. I say that in a coarse manner not to be obtuse, but to discourage you and others from continuing with a bikeshed that nobody seems to care to fix. If you want to make a new site for FreeBSD, make a template, see what you can do, but don't expect it to be used. > [snip] Kind regards, Devon H. O'Dell
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