Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-12-12 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 09:01:06PM +1100, Craig Small wrote: > > If you tell me what "your pages" are I be happy to take a look if you'd > > like. > > misc/merchandise > distrib/vendors > distrib/books ~~~ That's doc now. -- 2. That which causes joy or happiness.

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-12-12 Thread Craig Small
On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 07:37:11PM -0500, Jeff Albro wrote: > If you tell me what "your pages" are I be happy to take a look if you'd > like. misc/merchandise distrib/vendors distrib/books (also nm.debian.org and search.debian.org but they're a bit fiddly to do things on) - Craig -- Craig Sma

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-12-11 Thread Jeff Albro
On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Craig Small wrote: > As Joy said, we're volunteers. It just took me a little while to get used to the "rhythm of work" here. > I also had a very quick scan of your > suggestions and saw it didn't comment on "my pages" (that's ok though) > so didn't reply. If you tell me wha

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-12-11 Thread Craig Small
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:30:56PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > > My first post on this subject didn't get any responses. Is that because > people aren't interested or don't think it's a good idea? As Joy said, we're volunteers. I also had a very quick scan of your suggestions and saw it didn't comment

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-11-21 Thread Josip Rodin
You wrote: > Users don't know they are looking for a "HOW-TO" if they are new. They > are thinking "How do I get my sound card working?". I read your message a few times and at first tried to agree with that sentiment, but after reading it again, I can't. Debian isn't a distribution for _complete

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-11-16 Thread Tommi Vainikainen
On Fri, 16 Nov 2001, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Your redesign made for a much better structure, but the scanability > needs to be improved. Users don't know they are looking for a > "HOW-TO" if they are new. They are thinking "How do I get my sound > card working?". > > I know those of you with

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-11-16 Thread Jeff
Thanks for doing that! It IS an improvement, but I was hoping for a sample page for people to comment on first. That way the translators would only have to translate once. I should have made that more clear in my proposal. Your redesign made for a much better structure, but the scanability nee

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-11-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:34:52PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/ [...] I've analyzed the page in the light of your comments and quickly realized that the page needed a structural redesign. I've committed it and will make it available online

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-11-14 Thread Jeff
On Wed, 14 Nov 2001, Josip Rodin wrote: > On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:30:56PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > > My first post on this subject didn't get any responses. Is that because > > people aren't interested or don't think it's a good idea? > > Did it occur to you that maybe we haven't had the chance to

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-11-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Wed, Nov 14, 2001 at 02:30:56PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > My first post on this subject didn't get any responses. Is that because > people aren't interested or don't think it's a good idea? Did it occur to you that maybe we haven't had the chance to take a good look at it? Patience, we're all volun

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-11-14 Thread Josip Rodin
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 06:34:52PM -0500, Jeff wrote: > Section 4: While a link to support page makes sense here, an outside link > to debianhelp.org does not. > Section 5: Link to the debian support page. Move the link to > debianhelp.org to the support page where it belongs. This is done...

Re: Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-11-14 Thread Jeff
My first post on this subject didn't get any responses. Is that because people aren't interested or don't think it's a good idea? Should I post this on debian-doc? (after fixing a few typos and other things) I'd love to put together a sample page myself, but I primarily use voice recognition wh

Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/

2001-11-12 Thread Jeff
Proposal for the redesign of www.debian.org/doc/ --- The current main documentation page does not support the (expected) goal of the user: * Find the needed documentation, quickly. * I feel there are several problems