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Dear all, |
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I've spent a bit of time recently thinking about our website and some |
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of the current problems with it. I don't have any problems with our |
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look-and-feel, as I think that part of the site was designed very well, |
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but I do think there are both navigation and maintainance issues that |
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have arisen in the two years since the current site was designed. I'm |
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listing some problems that I see with the site, and I would greatly |
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appreciate it if people would add to this list. |
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1. Right now it is essentially impossible to navigate to any of our |
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project pages (including all of the top-level projects such as |
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infrastructure, hardened, ...) from the gentoo main page. At the same |
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time, the main page is getting a bit crowded with links (especially the |
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left-hand navigation column). |
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2. The last time I looked, our xsl code was really ugly. Moreover, |
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there's a great deal of content that is buried in the xsl. (For |
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example, adding a new link to the left-hand navigation column requires |
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editing the xsl file). |
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3. Numerous people have complained that the html+css we generate is |
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remarkably ugly. I don't know if we can fix this problem without losing |
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support for older browsers (NS 4.x being the principle offender). |
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Best, |
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g2boojum |
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Grant Goodyear <g2boojum@g.o> |
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