If you update your website; make sure you keep it open to old computers like mine. Update tend to lock out old computers like mine.
cheers DS On Sun, 24 Jan 2021 16:52:51 -0600 Jim Hall <jh...@freedos.org> writes: > Hi everyone > > I'm thinking about making a few changes to the FreeDOS website. But > I don't > want this to be "just another makeover" that makes things pretty. > Instead, > I'm looking for what you will find useful. > > I'm thinking of a few things already: > > *1. Update the wiki* > The wiki is arguably part of the FreeDOS website, and people go > there if > they can't find the information they are looking for on the rest of > the > site. It seems most people use the website to download FreeDOS, > check the > latest news, find links, and get general information. But if they > are > looking for a "how-to" or other documentation, they look to the wiki > for > that. > > As I mentioned in the get-together today, the wiki is out of date. > The wiki > started as docs we kept in the SourceForge site-wide wiki. When SF > stopped > running a site-wide wiki, they gave all projects an export of their > data > and instructions for how to set up their own MediaWiki. I don't know > MediaWiki, but I was able to follow the instructions to set up the > wiki we > have now. > > The setup works, but it's really hard for me to do basic "admin" > things > like add new editors. So I need to update that. > > An updated wiki will make it easier to provide up-to-date > documentation and > "how-to" instructions. > > *2. Make it easy to share stuff* > Sometimes it would be nice to share a news item with Twitter or > other > social media. I'm working on an update to the News system that will > provide > "share" buttons to share a news item on Twitter, Facebook, and > LinkedIn. > I'd also like to include Reddit. > > As a bonus, this update also makes this easier to manage on the > back-end. > > *3. Make the front page more welcoming* > The front page is a quick "landing page" for people to learn about > FreeDOS. > It's not bad, but could be better. I'm planning to embed the latest > FreeDOS > video on the front, since the videos are about *things you can do > with > FreeDOS* or *showing off neat features in FreeDOS*, so I think the > video > will help. I'll also make the screenshots smaller so they don't take > up so > much of the screen. > > I also want to make it easier to start downloading FreeDOS right > from the > front page. I'm not sure yet how I'll do that, but I'm thinking > about > borrowing from the https://getfedora.org/ front page, where they > have a > small info box about each "spin" of the Fedora distro, and a > "Download Now" > button that brings you to a separate page where you actually > download > Fedora. What do you think? > > BTW, you can already access the front page as > https://www.freedos.org/ or > http://www.freedos.org/ or https://freedos.org/ or > http://freedos.org/ > > > Let me know what you think will make the website easier to use. I'll > plan > to tackle this in February or March, with plans to deploy in March > or April. > > > Jim ____________________________________________________________ Sponsored by https://www.newser.com/?utm_source=part&utm_medium=uol&utm_campaign=rss_taglines_more Dominion Goes After Giuliani in Massive New $1.3B Lawsuit http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/600ee7ab5c60e67ab6035st04duc1 In Moderna's Good News, One 'Ominous' Finding http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/600ee7ab8057a67ab6035st04duc2 Huckabee Sanders Enters Race, Hits 'Radical Left' http://thirdpartyoffers.juno.com/TGL3141/600ee7aba4f6467ab6035st04duc3 _______________________________________________ Freedos-user mailing list Freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-user
