Simon Burke wrote:
[snip]
2. If it wasn't for the interesting content and structure of the FreeBSD
website, it would be among the less beautiful. Yes, it serves its
purpose well by being simple and straight to the point. But a redesign
could offer just the same -- simplicity and accuracy -- without being
ugly.
Aesthetics are not everything, the web site does what its supposed to
do. Also i actually like how it looks.
A lot of people have strong feelings about all these all singing all
dancing webistes. There is just no need. Keep it simple and easy to
navigate around thats all thats really important. If the aesthetics
really matter more than function to such people who use BSD then they
would probably be not using BSD but either windows or linux, where you
have a nice pretty GUI to look at all the nice pretty sites.
This is where I think a lot of people simply does not understand the
problem.
Im a FreeBSD user. I like FreeBSD because it does not have all the
flashy installers and pretty GUI's that many linux distros seems to
have today. But still, Ive been screaming for years for someone to
improve the website. Why?
Anyone that has stood in front of a boardroom full of CEO's or similar
and tried to promote the use of FreeBSD in a big organisation knows
why. They might like all the facts about the os, the rock-solid
stability, the lightning-fast performance and its solid reputation as
a server os, but one look at the website and they will run screaming
towards the nearest linux advocate instead.
We, the users, might not care about our image, but if we want to be
taken seriously by the rest of the world we better do something about it!
[snip]
4. There should be some kind of FreeBSD business card and letterhead
available to all that support this project.
I have to ask why? why would people need such things? that i just dont
understand
Clearly, you have not tried to "sell" FreeBSD to a big corporation.
--
R
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