New website

Murray Stokely murray at freebsdmall.com
Fri Oct 7 18:55:27 PDT 2005


On Sat, Oct 08, 2005 at 11:34:42AM +1000, Peter Jeremy wrote:
> 2) The default text size is too small.  As other people have stated,
>    if I've gone to the efford of setting up my browser to provide a text
>    size that suits me, why should the website over-ride it?  Clicking
>    the 'large' text buton gives me back the text size I configured but
>    only if I have Javascript and cookies enabled.  The language choices
>    also then wrap onto two lines.  Again, this is a regression.

Do you have a specific suggestion about this issue?  Some have
proposed leaving everything else the same but just defaulting to the
larger size.  That would affect the layout a bit on the main page but
all the second level pages should be mostly unaffected (just larger).

> 3) Visited links are no longer displayed as visited.  Another regression.

What color do you suggest for visited links?  This one should be a one
line fix.

> The 'Donate' and 'Contact' links at the top need to be better
> distinguished from the 'text size' links.  My suggestion would be to
> move the 'Donate' and 'Contact' links into the main menu bar (and
> get rid of the need for the text size links by not breaking the
> text size to start with).

Yea they probably aren't perfect there.  I'm not sure you're
suggestion is perfect either though.  I'd have to see a mock up.  Care
to make one?

> in the bottom section of the screen, none of them are links so I still
> need to scroll down.  How about converting all these headings to links?

That might be helpful.  Each list ends with 'More foo...' and I
suppose we could also make the headings point to the same thing as the
'More foo...' links.  I think it might be kind of link/underline
overload though as that would make every single english word in the
grey box (making up 50% of the screen) be a link.

> Overall, I'm disappointed at the regressions in the adaptability of
> the website - just because lots of other websites state "best viewed

Then let's fix them.

     - Murray


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