Re: site design philosophy/plan

2002-10-24 Thread Josip Rodin
On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:56:42AM -0700, Christian C. Benito wrote: > Okay. I have a fair amount of experience with xhtml and css. > Are stylesheets being used at all? I see some embedded styling, > but no externel sheets. What would it take to begin the > conversion to xhtml? Is there any pla

Re: site design philosophy/plan

2002-10-24 Thread Christian C. Benito
> You can start reading that : > > http://www.debian.org/devel/website/ Just browsed it. > P.S.: Did you subscibe to the Mailing-list ? Yew. Okay. I have a fair amount of experience with xhtml and css. Are stylesheets being used at all? I see some embedded styling, but no externel sheets.

Re: site design philosophy/plan

2002-10-24 Thread Pierre Machard
Hello, On Thu, Oct 24, 2002 at 08:28:46AM -0700, Christian C. Benito wrote: > I am interested in helping out, but first I wanted to read > any documentation that might exist (for the web site). > Where should I look? You can start reading that : http://www.debian.org/devel/website/ P.S.: Did yo

Re: Site design

1999-11-17 Thread Darren O. Benham
On Tue, Nov 16, 1999 at 11:04:28PM -0500, Bart Szyszka wrote: > Hi, > > Since the Debian logo now is only black and red, isn't the red and > blue color scheme at www.debian.org just something left over from > the old logo? Have you guys considered redesigning the site? I'm sure > me and my partner

Re: site design again

1998-04-11 Thread David Stern
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >David Stern wrote: >> >> One suggestion I have is to rotate the "What is Debian?" section with >> others, to maintain variety and keep web surfers interest. Some >> potential substitues may include a select news story, particularlyone >> which advocates

Re: site design again

1998-04-10 Thread James A . Treacy
> > One suggestion I have is to rotate the "What is Debian?" section with > > others, to maintain variety and keep web surfers interest. Some > > potential substitues may include a select news story, particularly one > > which advocates Debian or gives the latest breaking news on release > > infor

Re: site design again

1998-04-10 Thread Thomas Apel
David Stern wrote: > > One suggestion I have is to rotate the "What is Debian?" section with > others, to maintain variety and keep web surfers interest. Some > potential substitues may include a select news story, particularly one > which advocates Debian or gives the latest breaking news on rel

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 08 Apr 1998 14:51:17 EDT, "James A. Treacy" wrote: > Feel 'free' to edit the page and post the new text. Think of it as > submitting proposed changes to upstream source. It is the OpenSource > model for text. :) Hehe. Now I see Open Source and DFSG are not merely compatible, they are the

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread Georg Hitsch
Hi! > Regarding the choice of server: not true. cgi scripts are the only thing > that aren't affected by which server you use. The idea is that everyone > have a complete copy of the pages and only use cgi.debian.org for > running cgi. This makes it much easier to mirror the pages. > > Also, the

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread James A . Treacy
> Very nice work. I see you validate the HTML (I like validated > SGML) I think I would like a more prominent positioning of the > choose server nearest you (seems like it is only relevant to searches > as it is), but this is a very minor nit. Also, is there a way to have > a small Capta

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread James A . Treacy
> On this note, I've wondered if anyone has noticed that the word "free" > is used an awful lot in the "about Debian" page? From what I've been > reading, "free" is not a good way to describe Linux, because it conveys > the perception of reduced quality. I don't want to start any battles, > a

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Very nice work. I see you validate the HTML (I like validated SGML) I think I would like a more prominent positioning of the choose server nearest you (seems like it is only relevant to searches as it is), but this is a very minor nit. Also, is there a way to have a small Captain

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread Manoj Srivastava
Hi, Sorry, I must be going blind. I totally missed captain blue eyes, perched right on top. As I said before, me likum. manoj -- "Failing to get them to do it your way might mean they're stupid, but it also means you failed to get them to do it your way." Cal Keegan M

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread David Stern
On Wed, 08 Apr 1998 12:48:36 +0200, Thomas Apel wrote: > James A.Treacy wrote: > > > > If you feel you have good ideas, please convert a few more pages > > to what you'd like to see and get back to us. People like what you > > have done so far so keep going. If we like that too, I'd love it if > >

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread Enrique Zanardi
On Wed, Apr 08, 1998 at 01:10:32PM -0400, James A.Treacy wrote: [...] > > Take a look at it: > > http://www.koeln.netsurf.de/~thomas.apel/debian/index.html > > > > Comments are welcome. Especially about the usability with Lynx. It's > > difficult for me to judge about this as I never really used L

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread James A . Treacy
> In addition to the index I also converted the following pages. Just > follow the links on the index page. > > - About Debian > - Distribution > - Packages > - Download via FTP > - Debian on CD > > Take a look at it: > http://www.koeln.netsurf.de/~thomas.apel/debian/index.html > > C

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread Jason Gunthorpe
On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: > BTW are there any figures available how often the site is visited with > which browser? http://www.debian.org/~jgg/debian.org.stats.html I also have berlin.org and opersource.org Jason -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "

Re: site design again

1998-04-08 Thread Thomas Apel
James A.Treacy wrote: > > If you feel you have good ideas, please convert a few more pages > to what you'd like to see and get back to us. People like what you > have done so far so keep going. If we like that too, I'd love it if > you became a developer so I could give you access to the web pages

Re: site design again

1998-04-06 Thread James A . Treacy
> After there seem to be quite a lot of people who think the web site > could need a change I think we should now decide if we do it or not. > It has been my intention to change the site - at least the main page. > If we decide to change the site one should announce this to the public. > So every