Suggestion... On the first website page, have
Download Stable build 1.2 (created yyyy-mmm-dd) Download Development build RC5 (last updated yyyy-mmm-dd) buttons I personally use the date format yyyy-mmm-dd, for example 2022-Mar-02, to avoid confusion with having a two-digit month value. To me, being new to FreeDOS website, it would greatly help me to identify if I have the latest development build by looking at the first web page. Also, any package should also clearly indicate the yyyy-mmm-dd tag and maybe a "dummy" empty file whose filename is yyymmmdd (to satisfy 8.3 format) ________________________________ From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> Sent: Tuesday, 4 January 2022 6:22 AM To: freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: [Freedos-devel] Updating the FreeDOS website (progress) Hi everyone I wanted to share that I'm still working on an update to the FreeDOS website. I shared in an email to the list some time ago the issues with the current website, but the short version is certain parts of www.freedos.org<http://www.freedos.org> are hard to navigate, and it's not very easy for folks who are new to FreeDOS to figure out how to use it and what they can run on FreeDOS. So I want the updated version to address those issues. More generally I'm also trying to reduce the amount of text and/or the density of text on the website. A lot of the web pages are very text-heavy. I'm working on an updated version of the website. If you'd like to see it, the work in progress is at http://test.freedos.org/ or https://test.freedos.org/ (BTW, you can also visit the main website as either http://www.freedos.org/ or https://www.freedos.org/) A few notes about this test site: (1) This is a *test* website. It is not the final version. Despite the "test" nature of the new site, it's at least in a state that you can see how the site will be put together. I welcome comments and suggestions. (2) Most of the test site uses "lorem ipsum" text. This is dummy text that's just meant to be a placeholder. I find it's very useful to use "lorem ipsum" to figure out how to arrange text (using paragraphs, or lists, or info boxes, etc) without worrying about the exact text to use. (3) The test site uses placeholder images. I just used a bunch of screenshots that I already had. Some of them are *probably* the images I'll use, but they are the wrong size. The images will get changed. (4) Ignore the pink background color. I'm using the pink to help me see where certain boxes will show up. The pink will later change to white or some other color. I'm continuing to work on the new website. My goal is to have things finished by the end of January. Jim _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list Freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
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