From someone who recently contaced me with a GIMP
question. I wasn't able to help, but he figured it
out. I wanted to pass this along to all developers,
though:
|I must say, the GIMP is one of the best freeware tools I have seen.
|My hat goes off to the developers of this remarkable freeware
Raphael made a number of excellent points regarding
the site redesign. I'd like to reiterate some of
them and add something.
|* The new layout should not break the existing URLs. Many people have
| bookmarked some pages on www.gimp.org, and many web sites have
| direct links to the
Raphael Quinet said...
|This would be nice to have, but I think that it would be too
|ambitious. What I had in mind is something simpler. Basically,
|hiding the menus that are seldom used by unexperienced users. The
|toolbox could also be made simpler, but this is not really necessary.
If
Christoph Rauch said...
| I think if we have a redesign there should be a good reason for it.
| A fersh look is NOT important. Fresh content is far more
| important. Consistency is a *good* thing.
|
|With a well designed site we could use the with our software you are able to do
|that
Kelly Martin said...
|Example: http://www.gimp.org/download/ Result: 404 - not found
|
|That's not a look and feel issue, it's just a broken link problem
|that has nothing to do with look and feel.
While it's a tangential LNF issue, it *is* an LNF issue.
A plain old page not found error is fine
Raphael Quinet said...
|But it is very important to have most of the graphics (titles, etc.)
|done with a script that is included in the standard Gimp distribution
|so that every Gimp user can make the same things with only a couple of
|mouse clicks. Contrary to some companies that have to
Guillermo S. Romero / Familia Romero said...
| They should also work if JavaScript is not available. Links
| should be links - not JS calls!
|
|JS should be avoided, some browsers do not support it, some people
|just turn it off to avoid the pain, links are links and opening
|windows as the
