From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1EeTld-00071Z-9D for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:44:45 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jAM8i4ui032761; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:44:04 GMT Received: from rs25s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (200-44-33-102.genericrev.cantv.net [200.44.33.102] (may be forged)) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jAM8gGOm025374 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 08:42:17 GMT Received: from dC9D12581.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net (dC9D12581.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net [201.209.37.129]) by rs25s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net (8.13.4/8.13.0/3.0) with ESMTP id jAM8gEe8014118 for ; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:42:15 -0400 X-Matched-Lists: [] Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]) by dC9D12581.dslam-01-3-15-01-1-01.smg.dsl.cantv.net with esmtp (Exim 4.54) id 1EeTj9-0002aQ-7F for gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:42:11 -0400 Message-ID: <4382D9E1.7090204@gentoo.org> Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2005 04:42:09 -0400 From: "Luis F. Araujo" Organization: Gentoo inc. User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.7 (X11/20051030) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-dev@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] opinion on how to improve the website redesign References: <20051121140954.GF27085@toucan.gentoo.org> <20051122001415.GT12958@dst.grantgoodyear.org> In-Reply-To: <20051122001415.GT12958@dst.grantgoodyear.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.87.1, clamav-milter version 0.87 on rs25s12.datacenter.cha.cantv.net X-Virus-Status: Clean X-Archives-Salt: 04328698-f6f1-41f0-b4ba-a9ffdd1fb480 X-Archives-Hash: 10c9b3937d213998a5085e0fca095643 Grant Goodyear wrote: >It's interesting to compare http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org/ with >http://www.aaronshi.com/gentoo/mainindex.html. One of the things that I >always liked about the original design was the fact that the front page >held a considerable amount of information without needing much vertical >scrolling. On the other hand, I like the fact that the current >iteration says something about what Gentoo actually is, which just seems >like a good idea on the front page. (Although I'd prefer to modify the >text a bit so that it starts with "Gentoo is" and is limited to just one >or two sentences.) > > > I agree. Why we don't use that original design? , i think removing all that vertical scrolling for the front page is a good thing, and the search box looks handy too. >In fact, I've been thinking that it might be nice to remove the news >from the front page altogether (we could always have a news.gentoo.org for >people who mainly use the site for news), which would leave plenty of >space for the "Documentation", "Resources", and "Community" panels with >limited scrolling. > > > I also like this suggestion. We probably could make better usage of the front page other than posting a bunch of GWN. -- gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list