www/86970: The new web site look and feel is not FreeBSDish as we all know and love

[Murray Stokely]

The following reply was made to PR www/86970; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Murray Stokely <murray at freebsdmall.com>
To: George Danchev <danchev at spnet.net>
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: www/86970: The new web site look and feel is not FreeBSDish as we all know and love
Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 11:44:50 -0700

 This PR is probably just going to be closed.  You'll need to be more
 specific if you want specific changes made.  We appreciate feedback
 but this is not helpful feedback.  'just change it back' is going to
 get lost in the noise of the more positive or more detailed
 criticisms.  We have other more specific CSS/layout issues to addres.
 
 The old site was cluttered and difficult to find any information. It
 was also about a decade old and many of the pages were huge and poorly
 structured as it had grown organically since 1995.
 
 	- Murray
 
 On Thu, Oct 06, 2005 at 06:21:04AM +0000, George Danchev wrote:
 > 
 > >Number:         86970
 > >Category:       www
 > >Synopsis:       The new web site look and feel is not FreeBSDish as we all know and love
 > >Confidential:   no
 > >Severity:       non-critical
 > >Priority:       low
 > >Responsible:    freebsd-www
 > >State:          open
 > >Quarter:        
 > >Keywords:       
 > >Date-Required:
 > >Class:          change-request
 > >Submitter-Id:   current-users
 > >Arrival-Date:   Thu Oct 06 06:30:17 GMT 2005
 > >Closed-Date:
 > >Last-Modified:
 > >Originator:     George Danchev
 > >Release:        
 > >Organization:
 > government / military
 > >Environment:
 > >Description:
 >               The new web site looks like a commercial portal instead of free software one. It is not as clean as the old one was. Too many buzztricks in front of it and important information is thrown away somewhere behind that new and stupid face. It doesn't fit the look of the handbook as found currently at http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/
 > and other useful resources we all know and love.
 > 
 > >How-To-Repeat:
 >               visit www.freebsd.org
 > >Fix:
 >               Return the old site look and feel or make the new one looks like it at least as much as possible
 > >Release-Note:
 > >Audit-Trail:
 > >Unformatted:
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