From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [134.68.220.30]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.3/8.13.3) with ESMTP id j2OLN4fS013479 for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:23:04 GMT Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.203]) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DEZnE-0008HG-7v for www-redesign@robin.gentoo.org; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 21:23:04 +0000 Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 36so726714wra for ; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:23:03 -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:references; b=eicM5m13EJdmfa0cxvT36mLT2vKAza7RlKy6LAEhGvz69MNrVNbXhBnWYDL+OqtDOu9CdwKpMLymDUbl0q0/+S8Le2LznWQFKt88ju3fYDANboIMt7lUAgawEujqdDucvWUMUjP/vPQJWhVIlnh2Y9YX7MBjkuaQDAr82CCq7KA= Received: by 10.54.94.4 with SMTP id r4mr510968wrb; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:22:25 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.54.49.11 with HTTP; Thu, 24 Mar 2005 13:22:22 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:22:22 -0500 From: Chris Case To: www-redesign@robin.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [www-redesign] Too much? In-Reply-To: <1111698222.20019.23.camel@jimboy> 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@gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <1111698222.20019.23.camel@jimboy> X-Archives-Salt: 47ffe52b-e476-4d9a-9e50-0b843c56d5e8 X-Archives-Hash: b3db706c3b5b4fc6f40364f2d8e223de I disagree. It doesn't seem all the bloated at all. I'm on a dialup connection right now, and the page loaded for me very quickly. I like the sleek look of the site, and the simple, yet elagant layout. Gentoo's current site is very utilitarian. I think that as the gentoo project has progressed, while it is still a very utilitarian distribution, it has started to recently gain a good deal of polish, and slowly it's become quite elagant. Right now, everything is becoming more flashy, and more eye-candy oriented. This isn't wrong; keep in mind that most people like eye-candy. However, I personally hate bloated eye-candy. (Try browsing hotmail on dialup, or even msn.com) I think this new website is a good balance between the demand for eye-candy and bloat. I honestly don't see a good deal of bloat on that site. Sure, you could argue that you don't need all the fancy graphics, but by that logic, all graphics could be seen as bloat. Remember, text loads very fast ;). So, my opinion is that the current design is very nice. On a side note... what's the current progress level of the website redesign? Need any help? --Chris On Thu, 24 Mar 2005 16:03:42 -0500, James Dio wrote: > Well i subscribed to this list quite some time ago and after looking > around for quite a short time (so if I am indeed mis-informed from only > reading a few posts bear with me) doesnt the site at > http://www.aaronshi.com/gentoo/generic.html look a little bloated? > Thats what i liked about gentoo.org 's current site its simple and very > few images and no crazy things poking at you.. IMHO i kind of like > gentoo's current site :) That does look good and if it wasn't for it > looking bulky then i'd absolutly love it.. Or maybe bulky is alright i > really dont know but i figured i'd post my opinion not that its really > my business. > > > -- Christopher S. Case SUNY Fredonia Co/Op Engineering macguyvok@gmail.com (716) 673 - 4396 (Dorm) ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ "To err is human. To forgive, divine. To fix mistakes, now that's an Engineer." ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- www-redesign@gentoo.org mailing list