Hi Jim, thank you for updating the new design test page!
> http://test.freedos.org/ The "tiles" with popular topics are nice, but they sort of hide the other menu items for example in the top menu bar which look like fine print in contrast - those links are a lot smaller and lack any immediate explanation. Maybe the menu bar could be just on the sub-pages, with the start page providing tiles introducing each of the menu bar items? Then people can either use the menu bar to jump between known sections, or return to the start page when they prefer more details about what is where. I think the PACKAGE LIST deserves a tile on the front page. We have quite many nicely packaged and therefore easy to install (distro) and download (casual DOS use) applications and it is nice to browse the LSM list. Of course you could consider augmenting it with some short descriptions in the list or even screenshots for some selected packages in the individual app view, but any way to get to the entry page directly will be great ;-) At the moment, one has to know that the very humble "keyword link" for "What's included" in the download page leads to the even more humble hub page of https://www.ibiblio.org/pub/micro/pc-stuff/freedos/files/distributions/1.2/repos/pkg-html/index.html so it would be nice to reach the list with one obvious link from the start page instead of two too subtle ones and have one or two sentences per category to make it easier to navigate from pkg-html/ to the right category. Of course this is sort of linked to the "files archive". Back to the test page: forums/ might not be necessary if there are few enough forums to just link each of them, maybe even using a tile, from the start page :-) Not sure what you mean by embedded apps for DOS, but as the tile linking there mentions Linux, this might be a good place to discuss the ins and outs of dosemu2, qemu, dosemu1, dosbox and other ways to run DOS on modern OS: While some use old DOS apps because they need them to control old hardware, others would be happy to move towards more modern hardware while still sticking to their old DOS apps. Linux as a wrapper can help both in a variety of (but not all) cases. The "apps" page should probably link to the LSM list and the files archive, as it only presents a few nice examples, so it asks for links to "all the rest", too. Regarding the "games" page, I do not understand how that would make the links collection page obsolete? Regards, Eric _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
