On Sun, May 16, 2010 at 5:51 AM, Al Thomas <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi, > > The current main image on http://stg.fedoraproject.org/ is a 200K PNG. > > This can easily be reduced in size 10 times to a 20K JPEG with negligible > reduction in image quality, i.e. 'Explore Fedora's possibilities' is still > readable. Just need to make sure the transparent corners are changed to white > to match the background. > > Also the F13 release banner could do with the same treatment. > > I can see both images being visibly drawn line by line as I download the page > and I'm on a fast broadband connection. To the casual browser on a slower > connection the page could be unbearably slow. >
Great catch! I'll pass that along to design so we become more aware of things like this. I haven't noticed it since I typically look at the site locally on my system. > Usually the Fedora release tour is really informative but to have no textual > link to https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_tour means this is hidden > for many people who quickly scan the page. I only found it after attempting > to redesign the F12 release front page! Just a change to > > What's new in Fedora 13? Take the <a > href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Fedora_13_tour";>tour</a> and read the <a > href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f13/";>release notes. >></a> > > instead of > > <a href="http://docs.fedoraproject.org/release-notes/f13/";>What's new in > Fedora 13? Read the release notes. >></a> > > would at least make people aware there is more information available. I did notice that the Tour page was blank. I thought it was still in progress. I found that the Tour page was replaced by https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/F13_one_page_release_notes. I reached out to someone in Marketing and i got the details. In short, The Tour was deprecated in favor of the previous link, since F12. > All the best for the release, > > Al > We really appreciate your suggestions, ideas and patches. I know you sent a handful of patches a couple of weeks ago for the home page. I apologize but i have not reviewed them, however, I have them flagged and will get them to them after the release. Thanks again, Sijis -- websites mailing list [email protected] https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/websites
