The Website
Devon H. O'Dell
dodell at sitetronics.com
Tue Mar 30 05:51:21 PST 2004
Paul Robinson wrote:
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> Well, this is the problem FreeBSD generally has. A lot of people would
> actually like to see more developers move to FreeBSD and contribute to
> the project. It then follows that as the "product" improves, we are able
> to see a rise in the number of users. Pedantic, yes, but I'm becoming
> less convinced of the need for us to get FreeBSD onto the family PC. I
> would like to see it on a lot more developer's desks though.
And in more companies. FreeBSD is already used by many (large) companies
(including those in the Fortune 500). I know that even MS uses FreeBSD
for the SFU software.
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> Won't you expect the competition's product to be a better alternative to
> the one you currently use? Do you honestly believe that OS choice is
> dependent on what the website looks like? If so, how did Mandrake ever
> take off?
I have to agree here.
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>> the moment it looks like a three column url listing with no
>> really strong visual cues to things important to capturing,
>> converting, and supporting new users.
>
>
> Well, you know what the answer is then, don't you? You can grab the
> source, talk to the web team, produce a better version. Remember it has
> to be readable in text browsers, conform to WAI and Internationalisation
> standards and everyone has to agree by mutual consent it's a better
> design than the existing one.
AMEN. This is a bikeshed that gets discussed every 6 or so months.
Search advocacy@, doc@ and any number of other mailing lists for the
amount of complaints about the webpage. As per the suggestion always
posted that the FreeBSD page is too ``simple,'' my answer remains:
http://www.google.com
http://www.sun.com
Simple, huh?
As I stated on your other thread regarding the post on the ZDNet.au
site; if you can't put up, shut up. I say that in a coarse manner not to
be obtuse, but to discourage you and others from continuing with a
bikeshed that nobody seems to care to fix. If you want to make a new
site for FreeBSD, make a template, see what you can do, but don't expect
it to be used.
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Kind regards,
Devon H. O'Dell
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