On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:40:48PM +0200, Richard Atterer wrote: >On Mon, Aug 08, 2005 at 10:22:38PM +0200, Frans Pop wrote: >> Re this wishlist bug and the following quote from #d-cd: >> >> [17:04:07] <Sledge> we need somebody(TM) to clean up the CD pages... >> [17:04:21] <Sledge> and before you ask, I'm not volunteering! :-) >> >> I'm willing to put some effort into this if you can give me some ideas of >> the changes that are wanted. >> So, shoot... > >:-) Thanks for volunteering! Generally, IMHO I'm fairly responsive if >anybody mentions problems with the CD pages on debian-cd or debian-www, but >it's great if there's also someone else who also takes care of them. >What exactly needs to be "cleaned up" in Sledge's opinion? A few things... We had some discussions in Helsinki about unifying layouts under a new top-level of installer.debian.org, for a start. Merging some of the installer docs and CD docs under this would be very helpful - users often follow one or the other route, and some of the information they want is under one tree but not the other. Links to different download versions would be nice (cf. the bug that started this discussion). Changing the look of the pages so that they more closely match the top-level site might help. The pages are a lot clearer than they used to be, and I understand that sometimes there are no easy solutions to displaying the vast amount of information that we have so that both novices and experienced users can find what they're after easily. Better cross-linking within the various pages that we have would help a lot here. For example, from the top of www.debian.org, the toolbar link "Getting Debian" (which will be the first link many people will follow) points to http://www.debian.org/distrib/ . That page doesn't link to _any_ of the CD download pages, which is clearly silly. -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. steve@einval.com "We're the technical experts. We were hired so that management could ignore our recommendations and tell us how to do our jobs." -- Mike Andrews
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