[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > We recently got a new guy on board: Kadjo N'DOUA is Welcome! Your first task is to add "webmaster" links in all the footers instead of having it burried in http://www.linux-mandrake.com/en/email.php3 Be visible and we'll help. > What kind of content should be put on the site? Accurate and UP-TO-DATE! > What is missing? Current bug listings. Known workarounds. Tips & Techniques. etc. (see NIH comment below) > What should be left out? Fluff. I second Pj's ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) post. Putting the whole page in a TABLE... nothing worse than looking at a blank screen until the entire page is received before rendering. Give me something to read (not ads) while the rest is coming in; if you were behind me on the road and I continually stopped and started, how would you feel? That's how I feel about everything-in-a-TABLE pages. > How can we make the site more useful for our community, helping the expert as well as the novice? Avoid NIH (not invented here)... I struggled this week with a 2nd ethernet problem on a remote system; the answer was available on LinuxNewbie.org and posted on LinuxToday.com yesterday. In a manner similar to the news feeds, how about a set of feeds/links in various categories: hardware, configuring, tips, etc. Not pure news, already lots of coverage out there. Having sparse focused feeds would attract a lot of newbies. Also, I'm sure the developers have loads of bookmarks in their browsers that could be a goldmine for this. I'd be curious to see how many people would join a LM-webmaster list, and how many of those would contribute...? Sound like a variation on Open Source...? :> The point here is that while there is a whole group doing code, there may be huge untapped groups on the advocacy and general information fronts... > What about the Look and Feel? Do you prefer sobriety (coloured text links on white background) or a great use of images? Images which are in the "worth a thousand words" category are OK; but images which are just fancy/animated text are a waste of my time (due to limited bandwidth). I am *SICK* of ads and the new tricks some webmasters use to force these down our links. If it was up to me, I'd put web page ads in the same category as SPAM (UCE). I've already turned off autodownloading of images in the browser, run adzapper, and will continue to search for the ultimate "just the facts" proxy. <sidebar> NOTE TO ADVERTISERS: If your ad is one of those which trick my browser into displaying, you have moved your company to top of my "businesses to avoid" pile. There's many of us who just don't care for ANY advertising; that's why I pay for commercial-free TV. If I pay for my 'net link, *I* should get to decide if I want advertising; otherwise, why don't the advertisers pay for my link..? </sidebar> Just trying to help ensure Kadjo has plenty to do... :^) Pierre Keep in touch with http://mandrakeforum.com: Subscribe the "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" mailing list.
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