Re: New site design

[James Frazer <james.frazer@xxxxxxxxx>]

> I'd make the title larger, this way it looks strange right now.  I 
> actually liked the red, so maybe we could have all colors in a css?  
> just kidding :)


Everyone seems to say the same about the title, so I think it's fair to 
say that should be changed... Along with the logo in the title...

> But I think we should change the navigation on the left:
>
> - have sections and links visually distinguishable, i.e.
> - leave sections bold, make links normal, maybe smaller

Good point... I'm not sure why this didn't get changed... I think the 
only thing I changed was the colour on the navigation links, but I know 
I had intended to tweak font sizes.


> - don't use a fixed column size (wraps here)

Another good point.  This is another artifact of the old page... I 
didn't change much in the CSS.. and didn't want to blow up a layout 
which someone else made, and that I didn't fully understand.

> - use background for the cells/navigation to make it obvious that it is 
> navigation.
>
> Regarding the title, I'd like to see the logo in the title, and I'd like 
> to see a larger font for the title, instead of using spaced letters.
>
> There is no link to the snapshots anymore, I think this should go into 
> the "Download" section as a paragraph on top.  Further, I would split 
> the release errata/announcement from the download page.  I would even 
> split the list of mirrors from the download page, so that you click on 
> download, read one paragraph on snapshots vs releases, then click on one 
> of them, then get to the mirrors page, or better yet, get the iso served 
> from one of the mirrors.


All more good points. The problem I had was that there was a lot of 
information on the download page, but it was a lot more intuitive to 
download from the release page... The gist of all this is that a real 
content change was needed, and I ran out of time.  What I wanted to do 
is have the 5% of what was most important on the website, that 95% of 
visitors were going to want, and move the other 95% of super detailed 
stuff onto the wiki...

I didn't get that far, as the wiki seemed like it was going to be hard 
to use... which is a point of personal contention for myself...