Jim Fair enough NOT to have "additional buttons" on the first web page.
It would be nice (for me) to identify by a yyyy-mmm-dd text as to the update status of the development build, so for example :- With the (pink) Download FreeDOS button - the button also has the text in smaller print, "Last updated 2022-Mar-02" so one can tell quickly regarding the development builds. By having the above date message as part of the first web page - means one less "hoop" to jump through to establish if one has the latest development package. I personally find it somewhat unpleasant to jump through extra "hoops" when for the sake of a short text message (say in small print) important information is immediately at hand - with Windows 10 for example, extra "hoops" such as paging down on a "heavily spaced" page or selecting a sub-menu that only has "one item" in it, illustrates the "poor" (in my opinion) layout of Windows. Anyway, just a "suggestion" Richard ________________________________ From: Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> Sent: Tuesday, 4 January 2022 11:09 AM To: Technical discussion and questions for FreeDOS developers. <freedos-devel@lists.sourceforge.net> Subject: Re: [Freedos-devel] Updating the FreeDOS website (progress) On Mon, Jan 3, 2022 at 5:58 PM richardkolacz...@hotmail.com<mailto:richardkolacz...@hotmail.com> <richardkolacz...@hotmail.com<mailto:richardkolacz...@hotmail.com>> wrote: 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. [..] To make sure I understand this correctly: you'd rather have that info on the front page, instead of navigating to the "Download" page to get the FreeDOS 1.3 RC5 or FreeDOS 1.2? (Both RC5 and 1.2 are listed on the "Download" page.) I'm trying to avoid adding too many buttons. But what if the front page had (above the "Download FreeDOS" link/button) some tags or other highlighted text that said "FreeDOS 1.2" and "FreeDOS 1.3 RC5"? Would that be a useful way to communicate the versions without adding too much text? (Hopefully this is a short-lived problem. Once 1.3 "final" is out there, I'll stop advertising FreeDOS 1.2 on the website. (1.2 will still be on the Files Archive at Ibiblio, but the www website will just have download links for 1.3.) Jim
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