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Re: new design for debian site



* F I R A T <firat@kucuk.org> [2004-12-16 11:47]:
> David Moreno Garza wrote:
>>What's the difference between 99's websites and the ones nowadays? If
>>Debian's site is not nice now, what would you do to change it?
>>
> can be xhtml 1.0 transitional

 Please read up on
<http://annevankesteren.nl/archives/2004/12/mozilla-faq-on-xhtml> about
the so-called "benefits" of using xhtml. What would it gain us, really?

> more graphics (anti-aliased)

 And making the webpage load longer? And cutting off handicapped
persons?

> rss for news

 We have feeds for the security announces already. Granted, we should
add one for the news, too. I think I'll try to work on it.

 But please understand that you should suggest _tangible_ enhances. Just
saying "there should be something changed" without mentioning it /what/
should be changed and especially *how* is not really helpful.

> for instance some sapmle open-source project web pages:
> http://www.netbeans.org/

 Animated GIF as news ticker... come on. That's not really what is
helpful, do you think so?

> http://www.sleepycat.com/

 Header lines as images....  Great.

> http://www.blender3d.com/

 Blender is all about a graphics program. Of _course_ there are mainly
pictures... And almost no informations on the main page, to come back to
it.

> http://www.mono-project.com/

 IMHO mono page doesn't look too much different to ours. Not?

 So long,
Alfie
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