No, Andrew you are not alone in thinking that in general the open-source community has design-phobia. Whenever I send links to programming or technical pages to my design-centric co-workers they invariably comment on how dull those sites look.
I personally like and enjoy the new logo. Being as practically everyone's getting quicker connections and computers these days, the animation shouldn't make that much of a difference. It may also do some good in drawing people who consider open source to be difficult and inaccessible. Isn't it time to have -- and share -- a little fun? -- Rawslyn andrew mejia wrote: > no, not gaudy at all! > > the 'powered by..' has always been a great idea... > the > pride involved in using apache! :) > > try left justifying everything. <CENTER> is so mid- > 90's... also, include a simple stylesheet that will > force a particular font and 'feel' for the pages... i > know, in *all* your spare time! :) > > am i alone in thinking that in general the open-source > community has design-phobia?? and > i'm not refering to your page. when a user sees > that 'congratulations' page, it's more about the task > at hand than the design of the page... i'm not saying > that the apache look is bad or even gaudy. it's just > funny to see so many open source websites that are > functional versus eye-catching. the truth is that we > geeks are the only ones who see the pages, not the > general public... (or ms office 2000 users! he > he...:) > > for example: > www.sendmail.org is kinda boring, but very functional > www.phpbuilder.com is very nice > www.justlinux.com is pretty nice > www.sgvlug.org is kinda boring > > i guess we open-source-o-philes prefer functionality > over design 'froo froo.' > > your page looks fine! ...for what it's worth! > > andrew > > ps> see my company site http://www.oicweb.com . we > do work primarily for SUN microsystems, including > http://www.sun.com and http://soldc.sun.com, > for which i am project manager. > > --- "William A. Rowe, Jr." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > What do folks think of > > > > http://www.apache.org/~wrowe/itworked.shtml > > > > as a new graphic [ONLY FOR THE ITWORKED PAGE!] > > > > I expect folks to love or hate it, not much in > > between. > > > > I have a static of the final image. Note that the > > file size is acutally > > smaller than the original powered-by graphic. > > > > I'd also like (if it's possible) to put the server > > string on the first > > page (e.g. the .shtml extension, although they > > aren't enabled in home > > directories on this box.) > > > > Bill > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > For additional commands, e-mail: > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > ____________________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk > or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
