Gentoo Archives: www-redesign

From: Tom Lieber <alltom@×××××.com>
To: www-redesign@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [www-redesign] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org
Date: Mon, 21 Nov 2005 20:56:58
Message-Id: 326364c20511211256t21720684gd9ab220113c455e4@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [www-redesign] status of http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org by mushroomblue
1 On 11/21/05, mushroomblue <mushroomblue@××××××××××.net> wrote:
2 > the reason the
3 > advertisements are put on a light grey background is to separate them
4 > from the actual content of the site, thus ensuring that the reader's
5 > eyes are directed accordingly. without the background, the pages just
6 > don't seem to flow correctly.
7
8 On my laptop monitor I can't even see the gray until I turn the
9 brightness waaaay down, so perhaps that is what happened.
10
11 > Another thing, that big useless block of text above "what's new" needs
12 > to be removed. it's not a description of the distribution, it's a
13 > mission statement. mission statements are stupid.
14
15 I agree. What's there now is too much marketing and too little "Gentoo
16 is Linux, and this is what makes it different."
17
18 > Speaking of the About page, why is there a huge 40K image there that
19 > could easily be put into text?
20
21 I agree.
22
23 Sincerely,
24
25 Tom Lieber
26 tom@××××××.com
27 http://AllTom.com/
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