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 1EeIig-0003lx-7s for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:56:58 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with SMTP id jALKufEF032136; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:56:41 GMT Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.205]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id jALKudcd025477 for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:56:40 GMT Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 4so941489nzn for ; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:56:39 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=SnppY/3Oy+eV1EKatVDrfEwuFSaAf1hZO/eT0O1MWJs5XI4Ja3BJKvn2G6ypPS+Qm3y1DnxIsoFZQNMy5SX5VrNDLOiJalG9WHchpUn8zGH0x5kZYg5ZW5hNCKLKdCw9ei88rkIGUa02eG0MlozwxxZN6dv425Z9WcMHLKAIGRM= Received: by 10.65.103.12 with SMTP id f12mr3586314qbm; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:56:39 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.65.138.1 with HTTP; Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:56:38 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <326364c20511211256t21720684gd9ab220113c455e4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 15:56:38 -0500 From: Tom Lieber To: www-redesign@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [www-redesign] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <1132602448.1851.52.camel@zim.mushroomblue.org> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: www-redesign@gentoo.org Reply-to: www-redesign@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline References: <438174BD.9060100@gentoo.org> <1132602448.1851.52.camel@zim.mushroomblue.org> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by robin.gentoo.org id jALKudcd025477 X-Archives-Salt: bbbbeaf6-1b48-4b2d-baa6-5c685e5a5e12 X-Archives-Hash: 609f3073680ef3db2616a2ca3d772af5 On 11/21/05, mushroomblue wrote: > the reason the > advertisements are put on a light grey background is to separate them > from the actual content of the site, thus ensuring that the reader's > eyes are directed accordingly. without the background, the pages just > don't seem to flow correctly. On my laptop monitor I can't even see the gray until I turn the brightness waaaay down, so perhaps that is what happened. > Another thing, that big useless block of text above "what's new" needs > to be removed. it's not a description of the distribution, it's a > mission statement. mission statements are stupid. I agree. What's there now is too much marketing and too little "Gentoo is Linux, and this is what makes it different." > Speaking of the About page, why is there a huge 40K image there that > could easily be put into text? I agree. Sincerely, Tom Lieber tom@alltom.com http://AllTom.com/ -- www-redesign@gentoo.org mailing list