From: "Garance A Drosehn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
At 3:42 PM -0700 10/6/05, Murray Stokely wrote:
On Thu, Oct 06, 2005, Dan Ponte wrote:
> One idea is to revert to the old design, which suited people's
> needs just fine. However, I doubt that will happen.
Uhm, it didn't suit people's needs just fine. It was total crap
with dozens of disorganized links all over the front page and
second level pages topping 100k as they had just grown larger
and larger over time and noone had stepped back to look at how
bad it all was for someone coming to the site for the first
time to find any useful information.
I agree with Murray. I'm sure the new design can be improved upon
some more, but the previous web pages had gotten to the point that
they actively annoyed me. Too large, too much info crammed into
some of the pages. I have been saving URL's directly to some inner
web pages, for no other reason than to avoid bringing up the main
web page. And once you're AVOIDING the web page, then it doesn't
much matter how much info was crammed into it.
As a newbie (to FreeBSD not to 'nix) I found the older pages had the
information more accessible than the newer pages, which I rather
involuntarily had the opportunity to A/B test when I was installing
FreeBSD for the first time. Between FreeBSD coming up actively user
hostile (DECUS UNIX from 197x was no worse) and the web page changes
t became a challenge to find the documentation pages I needed to work
with.
I also disable font size selection on the browsers I use. I have a
large screen. I like to sit comfortably back and use large fonts
to lose the "dottiness" of 8 dot high fonts such as many of the
news service and blog pages use. This makes fixed size pages all
neatly calibrated in pixels look like <excrement> warmed over
twice. Pages that adapt to reality are much nicer.
With regards to the rather spartan new front page I note that while
I was setting up 5.4-RELEASE I also noted that there was a 6 in test
and had filed that for investigation once I got basic essentials more
or less working. When I went back to do that I had to mouse around for
10 minutes before I found 6-CURRENT was what that former link had been
about. (In the mean time I found 7-CURRENT with no references to
6-CURRENT. I mumbled to myself, "WTH, FreeBSD is doing marketdroid
tricks with version numbers? Can't be!")
So for what it is worth this is the reaction of a newbie (but only to
BSD rather than DECUS, SVR4, and Linux) who faced an involuntary A/B
test. I much prefer the old first page, although I cannot say I was
hugely in love with it. As observed it was a little busy. But over
compensation is not a correct response to "a little". It's line you
moved 20 dB when 1 dB would have been sufficient.
{^_^} Joanne
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