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Re: New website layout / design contest?



On Tuesday 05 September 2006 13:09, Christoph Haas wrote:
> On Tuesday 05 September 2006 04:16, Matej Cepl wrote:
> > Paul Belanger wrote:
> > > After all, the point of any distribution is to sell it to a user.
> >
> > It is not. For example, Debian Developers usually don't care how many
> > users is Debian sold to. And that is a good thing.
>
> If you think of the monetary aspect: okay. But if you think of "selling
> something to someone" in the meaning of promotion then I'll definitely
> second that debian.org's web site is not very appealing. It does its job
> and is functional - but it is not very nifty. And by the way I *do* care
> how many users use my packages or Debian altogether. It's nicer to
> maintain something that 1000 people use than something that is just
> rotting in the archives.

Seems like this website issue has already been addressed:
(note: url is intentionally wrapped)
http://ftp.acc.umu.se/pub/debian-meetings/2006/debconf6/theora-small/
2006-05-20/hacklab/www_debian_org_redesign-Agnieszka_Czajkowska.ogg

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