On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 04:49:31PM -0500, Greg Barniskis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> was witnessed plotting the following conspiracy: > Dan Ponte (>) [with help from some others (>>)] wrote: > > >>A lot of stuff has been removed from plain sight which means > >>more clicking and scrolling and searching and waiting. > >>Oh yes, let's all start burying information.. > > I personally didn't have any problems grokking the new layout or > finding anything I thought to look for. > > > >>With Opera, about 40% of the screen space is left unused. > > This part I'd agree with. Too much white space around main content > leads to too much scrolling. Let the text flow as wide as the user > decides to; switch to %-based widths, not absolute pixel widths (the > flip side of too much white space in a wide window is that the text > don't wrap in a narrow window. ouch.). Observations made in Firefox. > > > >>The old one was better. > >> > >I second that all the way. Personally, I feel that the FreeBSD project > >is doing too much in the way of appearing "trendy" to attract new users, > > Can't disagree with these statements more. The old way, while rich, > seemed way too densely packed. I think the changes should make it > easier to zero in on what's needed, even if some content is one or > two clicks deeper than it used to be. I doubt the primary goal here > was to appear trendy.
Well, it certainly seems as if that was one of the goals, seeing how the new site uses quite a few new webdesign concepts that came into existence in the past few years, while providing little benefit in the way of content or usability. > Thanks, Contributors! > > > Now, if only the site Search worked better... ah well, there's > always http://www.google.com/bsd > -Dan -- Dan Ponte http://www.theamigan.net/ Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also in prison. -- Henry David Thoreau
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