I've been doing a little tinkering with the web site design. By the time we finally make our "1.0" release, I figured FreeDOS should have a somewhat sharper-looking web page. Bob Stammers and I have been discussing a new look off-list, and I think it's pretty much ready.
If you would like a peek at the new design, it's at: http://www.freedos.org/index2.php?css=http://hallx049.oit.umn.edu/temp/fd/005.css It has a modern appearance: clean, simple. I hope it's not too boring. I'm open to final tweaks before this new version goes live, later this week. This is just the first in several goals. I also want to re-do the main page to fix two other things: 1. Clean up the linkList. At first pass, I'll need to make my best effort to organize things as best I can, and later we'll try to do a kind of "card sort" exercise if I can gather enough volunteers. At the least, I want to have links grouped for first-time / general users and for developers. How I order the links, I haven't decided. But I may re-use links in both sections ... that might be okay if I keep the link names the same (otherwise, it would get confusing.) I'll also rename some link text from what we have now. At a top-level, the headers will probably be grouped into two sections: Using FreeDOS link link link Developers link link link 2. Different content on the main page. For as long as I can remember, the FreeDOS front page has contained a list of news items. That was appropriate when we were a bunch of developers, but it's not helpful to users who aren't familiar with DOS. So I'll likely move the news items to a "developers" page, or something. The front page will be filled with a few paragraphs lifted from "About", and a few paragraphs lifted from (perhaps) "Download" and other parts of the site. Not sure how I'll re-write that content. But the key is, everything a new user needs to know about FreeDOS should be located on the front page. -jh -- I'm sorry my president's an idiot. I didn't vote for him. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
