Time for a fresh start, it's time folks

[Robert Simmons]

On Sun, Jun 24, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Bruce Cran <bruce at cran.org.uk> wrote:
> On 22/06/2012 19:42, Benedict Reuschling wrote:
>>
>> These things take time, but the webpages are not broken at the moment,
>> just outdated. Hence a replacement should not be our top priority (at
>> least, it's not mine). However, I would be interested to see some design
>> studies if someone is interested in doing them to see what can be done.
>
>
> Something we should consider during any redesign is whether we want to
> continue using hover menus -
> http://uxmovement.com/navigation/why-hover-menus-do-users-more-harm-than-good/
> argues against them.
>
> Also, this can probably be easily fixed on the current site but the
> Developers hover menu is out of sync with
> http://www.freebsd.org/projects/index.html (which appears if you click the
> Developers title) - the Repository links aren't available other than from
> the hover menu.  Also, "Release Engineering" is linked to from the "Get
> FreeBSD" menu but is on the "Developers" page.

If there are changes coming, may I suggest an improvement: put a link
to the doc project's new contributor primer in a more visible location
on the website.  It is now buried 4 clicks deep into the website
almost at the very end of the following page:
http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/sgml.html

There needs to be a link to it on these pages:
http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/submitting.html
http://www.freebsd.org/projects/newbies.html
http://www.freebsd.org/docproj/

The primer is:
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/fdp-primer/index.html