Date: Sun, 4 May 1997 22:46:43 +0200 From: Stefan Bethke <stefan@promo.de> To: www@freebsd.org Cc: John Fieber <jfieber@indiana.edu>, "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@time.cdrom.com>, wosch@apfel.org Subject: Re: New Web design Message-ID: <l03010d00af929de10182@[194.45.188.81]> In-Reply-To: <23203.862370725@time.cdrom.com> References: Your message of "Tue, 29 Apr 1997 20:15:21 %2B0200." <l03010d00af8beaad4bb1@[194.45.188.81]>
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So, after a busy weekend (drum roll): http://www.promo.de/people/stefan/freebsd/home1/ A new home page for FreeBSD (2nd try). Also look at the links marked with *; I have reorganized some pages quite a bit. As always, this just a suggestion. (The navbar doesn't work yet, and its alignment with the home page is rather incidential.) Points for further discussion: - What topics should the navbar contain? - Do we want to use a map, or individual images on the navbar? - Does this table stuff really work with most browsers? - Inclusion of other languages into the home page and the www tree; - Inclusion of local information into the home page and the www tree. - Further reorganization for different audiences (first time user, experienced user, developer)? - Where to put: the Source Tree, cvsweb, and alike; I think this is neither "documentation" nor "support"; maybe we want to add a section on "Developer Info"? While providing both additional languages (read: translation of the english pages) and local information is definitly worthwhile, it could easly grow into a maintainance nightmare. I would suggest the following structure. A typical FreeBSD WWW server (including www.freebsd.org) provides one or more of: - http://www.XX.freebsd.org/en/ the English pages (what is now /) - http://www.XX.freebsd.org/YY/ other languages such as JP, DE, PO, or FR; verbose translation of English version - http://www.XX.freebsd.org/ a link/redirect to the "preferred" language home page on that server) - http://www.XX.freebsd.org/local/YY/ information local to country XX, in language YY A translated version should provide tranlations for at least the Web pages, the Handbook and FAQ being a plus. The non-english pages are maintained by a group of native speakers, on a server local to them. The documents are distributed through CVSup, so that any FreeBSD Web server can provide any language version it wants. Examples: http://www.freebsd.org/en/ - English home page on "main" server http://www.de.freebsd.org/fr/ - French home page on German mirror http://www.de.freebsd.org/local/de/ - Local pages for Germany in German. http://www.de.freebsd.org/local/en/ - Local pages for Germany in English. Problems: - I currently have no good idea how to integrate the cgis into this scheme. - Most current links are broken. - What to do if a server does not provide a certain tree. Stefan -- Stefan Bethke Promo Datentechnik | Tel. +49-40-851744-0 + Systemberatung GmbH | Fax. +49-40-851744-44 Eduardstrasse 46-48 | e-mail: stefan@Promo.DE D-20257 Hamburg | http://www.Promo.DE/ Private: Mühlendamm 12 | Tel. +49-40-256848 D-22089 Hamburg | e-mail: stefan.bethke@hanse.de
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