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Grant Goodyear wrote: |
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>It's interesting to compare http://wwwredesign.gentoo.org/ with |
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>http://www.aaronshi.com/gentoo/mainindex.html. One of the things that I |
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>always liked about the original design was the fact that the front page |
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>held a considerable amount of information without needing much vertical |
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>scrolling. On the other hand, I like the fact that the current |
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>iteration says something about what Gentoo actually is, which just seems |
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>like a good idea on the front page. (Although I'd prefer to modify the |
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>text a bit so that it starts with "Gentoo is" and is limited to just one |
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>or two sentences.) |
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I agree. Why we don't use that original design? , i think removing all that |
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vertical scrolling for the front page is a good thing, and the search |
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box looks |
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handy too. |
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>In fact, I've been thinking that it might be nice to remove the news |
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>from the front page altogether (we could always have a news.gentoo.org for |
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>people who mainly use the site for news), which would leave plenty of |
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>space for the "Documentation", "Resources", and "Community" panels with |
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>limited scrolling. |
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I also like this suggestion. We probably could make better usage of the |
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front page |
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other than posting a bunch of GWN. |
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