On Wed, 29 Dec 2004, Martin Cooper wrote:
On Wed, 29 Dec 2004 14:01:27 -0500 (EST), Henri Yandell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Here's my mockup proposal:
http://www.apache.org/~bayard/mock-jakarta-frontpage.html
This looks OK. The one thing I would change, though, is to get rid of the indentation under the headings (which would probably necessitate a slightly larger gap between the columns). As it is now, with the indent, the center text - and especially the table - becomes a rather tall, skinny column in a default-sized browser window.
Moving to CSS will make this easily solvable. Rather than using blockquote, we can use proper CSS margin indentation etc.
I've uploaded a slightly modified version that removes the width from the columns (it was being set to 20,80 still) and adds in the css lines that www.apache.org has. I've also shortened the labels in the About Jakarta section.
Some additional reasons for changes:
1) I've simplified the News. Firstly to reduce front page clutter and secondly because I think it's a poor use of our resources to try and manage the other news around Apache.
2) I've struck out the Korean link. Their site hasn't been updated in the last couple of years and so I don't think we're doing anybody a service by linking to it.
3) I struck out the Japanese link. Less bothered about this one, but it's no longer a translation of the Jakarta site in Japanese and seems to be more of a commercial site now.
4) Various parts of Resources struck out. I think this was all covered in previous emails. I think www.apache.org covers these issues now and we don't have to.
So as a general theme: remove fluff, stop trying to be [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Hen
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