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FreeBSD Project Launches New Website
UltimaGuy writes "The FreeBSD Project has launched a new website today. The new design was created by Emily Boyd, a student at Smith College that they had the pleasure of working with through Google's Summer of Code program. The old website is also still available."
Well that's a heck of an improvement on the old one. Now if only some of the other BSD's (Open, i'm looking at you) would do something similar, would be good. And yes, i know, better they spend time hacking at the source than making their site pretty, but as was shown by the summer of code thing, finding people willing to take on the responsibility of sorting it out isn't hard.
...this is much much better than the old website. The important details are much clearer (i.e where to get it, what the current releases are) and the whole thing generally feels very fresh and modern.
Hopefully they will give the handbook a bit of a spring clean next...whilst informative it sometimes lacks in either explaining concepts sufficiently or just assumes a lot of prior knowledge in certain areas.
Kev
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etc.etc.
call things what they are not by their attributes
and grey text on grey background, HELLO some of us are hard of sight
you 20 somethings think everything will be rosy when you lose 30% of your ocular capacity in 30 years
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Didn't know it was that new... I was just looking for info on FreeBSD Java on wednesday on those pages (the new ones).
The FreeBSD website was in dire need of an overhaul.
Looks like the new site keeps the best of the old site, but in a better form.
It'd be nice if the 'Large' stylesheet also made the columns wider however.
I must admit, it makes it look more like they're providing a serious product rather than something made by a group of hippies and slackers.
*dives under a table with his Powerbook*
Direct away from face when opening.
I posted this yesterday
:)
( " The New FreeBSD Website is UP Thursday October 06, @06:15AM Rejected" )
as news only to be rejected. I dont know why it was rejected so i cant complain i was treated unfairly. But when someone posts news and is rejected then the news appears a day later posted by someone else. It makes me wonder what the fsck is going on round here.
On the topic. The new design is a major improvement, much nicer to look at, and hopefuly it can get carried through to a HTML version of the Handbook some time soon. that could do with a style overhaul, just to make reading the thing online nicer
XML - A clever joke would be here if
What! A new web page a no new logo? I couldn't see anything about the logo contest at first glance. (disclaimer: I didn't submit any logos, no personal agenda).
Come on FreeBSD, it has been 3 months since the contest ended, are you having trouble deciding which is best out of the 500 submitted or which is the least worst? At least post the submissions in a gallery.
Am I the only one who thinks it looks horrendously derivative of Red Hat's Bluecurve theme? The old look was distinct, although not entirely intuitive. The new one looks very generic.
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I am not sure whether the new headline on the homepage is a very wise and professional move of the FreeBSD project.
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lets here it for primary colors.. yellow to red.. .. nice layout, but I'm not a fan of the red...
I wonder if they did any research on usablilty and making it easier to find things..
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Given their unshakable devotion to that stupid looking demon guy, maybe they should rename it Satanix.
-I like my women like I like my tea: green-
No.... cant have change.. noo... All kidding aside, i was used to the old format and knew where stuff was, but this seems to address that issue for new comers..
---- Booth was a patriot ----
Contrast isn't so great now, text is tiny and yet too big with the large stylesheet.
It's also following the brain-dead trend to LOCK the size/alignment of the layout making window resizing useless; a PRINT versus WEB layout. Sorry, my windows aren't primarily 800x600.
If you are centering your layout, you have a whitespace flaw/problem.
All the submissions remain the copyright of the artist.
Then why did the contest rules fail to grant FreeBSD Foundation a limited non-exclusive licence to display each submission publicly for the duration of the contest?
Ok, it needed some improvements, and also a lot may be because I'm used to it, but overall, I preferred the old site.
For a start, it made full use of my browsers screen size (the new site only uses a quarter of my browsers window.. damn 'fixed sized' web sites)
It also (and maybe as a consequence) squashes too much into a small space.
The news/upcoming events/in the media/security advisories sections now have too much prominence. Sure, this may be handy for 'regulars', but regulars know where to look anyway.
Surely, the purpose is to grab -- and keep -- new visitors to FreeBSD. As such, this large section merely confuses.
But, ultimately, I resent this page being squashed into a quarter of my window!!
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She has some nice OSS designes under her belt. A Google search shows she designed the pgsql site, for one. Her designes are attractive, but not as accessible as I would like. For example, most of her fonts are below 1em (1em being the size you tell your browser that you want). It is fine to go less than 1em for things such as copyright notices and advisory feeds and whatnot, but the majority of the text on the site should always be 1em: the user should have his say on what the font size is. I would also prefer more of my monitor real estate be used. I'm not a fan of squashed designes. Overall, everything is an improvement on the eyesore that was the status quo.
$ whatis themeaningoflife
themeaningoflife: not found
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I rarely criticize things I don't care about.
You call your post "Requiem for the FUD", but your post is just a collection of content-free propaganda articles by biased "journalists". You are not addressing the "FUD" (criticism) at all.
Yes, we are having trouble deciding.
Which way, which is the best? In that case, any one will do, or which is the least worst? In that case, take your time.
20 days and counting, till announcement deadline
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Try Ubuntu GNU/Linux, it's great!!!
If you are going to get someone to redo your website, get someone competant. In addition to what the doctor pointed out, the design is fixed width, so it looks like shit and wastes half your screen if you have a high resolution, and the menu is even fixed size, so if you are using larger fonts so you can read, it wraps around under the images. The new design sucks nuts, and the designer definately needs to go back to school.
She does shit like make the default size for the whole site 0.8em. That is smaller than 1em. That is bad, and makes the text smaller by default than what everyone wants, and has set their browser for.
And she doesn't learn when people complain that she makes fixed width layouts and makes stupid assumptions about fonts that make the page messed up. This site contains the exact same problems that were pointed out in the new postgresql site.
That is so awesome. I think that from now on when anyone dives to take cover in a television program or film, particularly behind a piece of furniture, a Powerbook or at least an iBook should be included in the shot.
Now before I get modded down, I be to remind whoever might read this that what I am saying is FACT. - bogaboga
... just like its web site
It's dead.
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