Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-31 Thread Graham Pople
>For those of you who don't know, I am the current webmaster for Debian. >I just heard of this thread yesterday and was going to read the debian-user >archive, but won't bother as the discussion has been moved. Future replies >will not go to debian-user so subscribe to debian-www if you are interes

Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-31 Thread Tommi Virtanen
On Mon, Mar 30, 1998 at 04:27:03PM -0500, James A.Treacy wrote: > FYI, it has been my intention to have the actual web pages generated using > m4. > This would allow us to have a generic header and footer (for each language) > and have time stamps be generated automatically. Modifying the he

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-31 Thread Marcus Brinkmann
On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 05:21:21PM +0100, Thomas Apel wrote: > > What do you think about this? I would be happy to hear your opinions. If > there is enough positive feedback I can create a rough prototype of what > I think of. Hello Tom! Thank you for your constructive suggestions. I think the fo

Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-30 Thread Ralph Winslow
Thomas Apel wrote: Nice job, Thomas! I just had a look at your page and I, for one, like it. A lot. > > Hi! > > Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > > > Would you people shift this thread to debian-www? > > > > I am sorry for starting this thread on the wrong list. I did not n

Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-30 Thread James A . Treacy
For those of you who don't know, I am the current webmaster for Debian. I just heard of this thread yesterday and was going to read the debian-user archive, but won't bother as the discussion has been moved. Future replies will not go to debian-user so subscribe to debian-www if you are interested

Re: Fw: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-30 Thread Thomas Apel
Hi! Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra wrote: > > Would you people shift this thread to debian-www? > I am sorry for starting this thread on the wrong list. I did not notice that there is a www related list. So please send replies to debian-www. Concerning the topic I think the most imp

Fw: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-30 Thread Leandro Guimarães Faria Corcete Dutra
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Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread George R
On 03/28/98 at 09:31 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Kenneth L. Summers) said: >> Hi! >> >> The last times I visited the Debian web site I had to realize that it is >> not very impressing concerning design and structure. Especially in >> design the sites of FreeBSD, The GNOME Project, KDE, Red Hat, etc. h

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread David Stern
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998 21:33:10 +0100, cleto wrote: > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: > > > To make it more clear what I mean: I think of home page with a > > navigation bar on the left and a text column on the right. The > > navigation bar should contain a maximum of about 6 top level categ

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread Nelson Posse Lago
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, cleto wrote: > Please do not forget that there are users who access the site > using text-based browsers like Lynx. Navigation bars and like make a site > more difficult to navigate for them. > > On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: > > > To make it more clear what I mean

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread Bob Hilliard
Kenneth L. Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I would have to disagree. I like it the way it is. It is simple, elegant, > and I don't have to search through five screens to find what I want. As for > professional: I've seen plenty of "professional" sites that are cluttered, > take *way* to long to

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-29 Thread W Paul Mills
On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Ender Wigin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Please do not forget that there are users who access the site > > using text-based browsers like Lynx. Navigation bars and like make a site > > more difficult to navigate for them. > > That should not be an isue ... you can write a scrip

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-28 Thread Travis Cole
On Sat, Mar 28, 1998 at 05:12:18PM -0600, Ender Wigin wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > Please do not forget that there are users who access the site > > using text-based browsers like Lynx. Navigation bars and like make a site > > more difficult to navigate for them. > > That should not be an isue ... y

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-28 Thread Ender Wigin
> Hi, > > Please do not forget that there are users who access the site > using text-based browsers like Lynx. Navigation bars and like make a site > more difficult to navigate for them. That should not be an isue ... you can write a script that autoloads a lynx version automaticly if you can't

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-28 Thread john
Cleto writes: > Please do not forget that there are users who access the site using > text-based browsers like Lynx. I never access it with anything else. > Navigation bars and like make a site more difficult to navigate for them. I would hate to see the Debian site become as cluttered with grap

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-28 Thread cleto
Hi, Please do not forget that there are users who access the site using text-based browsers like Lynx. Navigation bars and like make a site more difficult to navigate for them. Cleto On Sat, 28 Mar 1998, Thomas Apel wrote: > To make it more clear what I mean: I think of home page with a > navig

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-28 Thread jason. ish
>The last times I visited the Debian web site I had to realize that it is >not very impressing concerning design and structure. Especially in >design the sites of FreeBSD, The GNOME Project, KDE, Red Hat, etc. have >a lot more to offer. Although the Debian site may not be a 'pretty' as some that

Re: Design of Debian web site

1998-03-28 Thread Kenneth L. Summers
> Hi! > > The last times I visited the Debian web site I had to realize that it is > not very impressing concerning design and structure. Especially in > design the sites of FreeBSD, The GNOME Project, KDE, Red Hat, etc. have > a lot more to offer. > > Of course web page design is not the most im

Design of Debian web site

1998-03-28 Thread Thomas Apel
Hi! The last times I visited the Debian web site I had to realize that it is not very impressing concerning design and structure. Especially in design the sites of FreeBSD, The GNOME Project, KDE, Red Hat, etc. have a lot more to offer. Of course web page design is not the most important thing ab