Main site makeover

Fabian Keil freebsd-listen at fabiankeil.de
Sun May 29 07:26:02 PDT 2005


Chris Zumbrunn <chris at czv.com> wrote:

> On May 29, 2005, at 12:55 AM, Giorgos Keramidas wrote:
> 
> > On 2005-05-28 11:51, Fafa Hafiz Krantz <fteg at london.com> wrote:
> >>>> What happened to this?
> >>>> http://www.monkey.org/freebsd/archive/freebsd-advocacy/200412/ 
> >>>> msg00080.html
> >>>>
> >>>> I don't know if these were generated from real HTML/CSS or just
> >>>> created in a graphics editor.
> >>>
> >>> Actually, I've seen a front page that Chris did (I think) that's got
> >>> the nice menu across the top and a really well designed front page.
> >>
> >> I just wanted to point out;
> >>
> >> There's *nothing* new about that design.
> >> It still follows the old principles.
> >
> > It's ok.  Small incremental changes are easier to test and accept than 
> > a
> > full "throw it all away and use mine" style of update.
> >
> > The site now uses CSS a lot more than before, AFAIK.  I'm not a web
> > design guru, but if someone came up with a style that looks like, say,
> > Wikipedia it would be interesting.
> >
> > Any takers who want to try revamping the front page by using *only* CSS
> > style changes?
> 
> Yes, that was exactly the idea. There is a version committed in 
> Perforce that took that approach and looks like this:
> 
> http://czv.com/zones/beastie/freebsd/freebsdweb1h.html
> http://czv.com/zones/beastie/freebsd/freebsdweb2h.html

Looks good. Was there already a discussion if the links
should stay underlined or not? IMHO they should. 

Fabian
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