(day two) - your opinion on the new design needed

[Bill Davidson]

Looks real nice. Much cleaner. And I must say the idea of the opinions 
page sounds great.

Bill

On Tuesday 02 April 2002 09:35 am, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
> The new "snapshot" of the developing site redesign is up. The following
> concerns have been addresses:
> 1. the javascript windows resize is gone. It wasn't intended to be a
> part of the site. I was using it to help me gauge window sizes, table
> alignments, and font spacing.
> 2. the frame borders are invisible. they were only visible to illustrate
> the layout to Net Llama. I didn't know he was going to tell everyone
> about the url ;)
> 3. the middle frame has been absorbed into another frame much like the
> current site. I never cared for having it seperate. I just made it that
> way so that I could keep track of the many required elements.
> 4. the "2 words per row" between the two tables has been fixed. however,
> this means that the minimum browser window size is slightly larger (if
> you don't want to have to scroll the site)
>
> Frames are still there. I don't care for them that much either, but the
> main focus for right now is the design itself. How we do the layout can
> be worked out after we have a "final" design.
>
> NOTE: The images on the site with the penguin are temporary. But the
> general look is probably going to stay. (beach, books, some kind of
> beverage) I've asked Burns to generate some new Dr Tux images whenever
> he gets some time.
>
> There's still a ton of 404 errors. It is intentional. There is no sense
> in copying all that content around when the focus right now is the
> "face" of the site.
>
> There is nothing I can do about the white on white in the store. I've
> sent a request up to the site admin (the store is one of those
> co-partner things). The jury is still out on whether the final site will
> have a store or not. Opinions?
>
> You'll also note the opinions link. This will take you to a beta site of
> a concept that we are kicking around. Essentially, what we were hoping
> to achieve was a place where you (the user) can go to look up reviews
> (written by your peers in the community) of different hardware or
> software or distros. think epinions.com meets the linux hardware
> compatibility list meets the steps. The site will also have relevant
> links to SxS content. For example, you go to the opinion site and lookup
> cd-r drives. It will present you with a link to the relevant SxS
> material on cd-r drives, and will also show what cd-r drives have been
> reviewed by the community. the reviews will tell the make and model, the
> success, what kernel, what distro, overall rating of the drive, etc.
> That way you can see "oh look. lite-on drives work well with linux. acer
> ones dont. guess I wont be buying that acer drive at best buy after
> all". There are very few reports in the system right now. If you get a
> chance, create a login and start generating reports. Try to break it.
> Then send me whatever errors messages/issues/ideas/etc you encounter.
>
> The url is still http://hunley.homeip.net/sxs/