Darren Pilgrim <darren.pilgrim bitfreak.org> wrote:
Date: Fri, 12 May 2006 15:07:34 +0200
From: "Julian H. Stacey" <jhsfire.jhs.private>
> the new design was first launched. A professional web
designer for whom
> I installed her development and productions servers,
included an offer
> to polish the layout to meet design and accessibility
best practices.
> She said it was the least she could do for FreeBSD
making it possible to
> start her business "without giving Microsoft one
damn penny." The
> response? Silence.
Kind offer. Sad it didn't happen.
> I say just close the PR. No one cared then; why should
they care now?
Judge the FreeBSD web team by yearly results:
Last year's `Summer Of Code' paid a student to work on
http://www.freebsd.org ,
supervised by a FreeBSD web team member;
Result: forcibly small font assertion, (view on 1600 x
1200 +
Mozilla), boring layout, inaccessible, reduced search
functionality
compared with previously, & colours largely abandoned
etc. ( I
also reported things via webmaster, team, & or send-pr).
Old
version is here: http://www.freebsd.org/ol
d/ I lost trust last
year, & indirect all my pages via http://berklix.org/fr
eebsd.org/
Whichever webmaster(s) imposed the mess for last 8+ months
should be sacked.
There's little chance other existing & new junior
web team
recruits will fix/ reverse their mess 'till those
responsible
for pushing it through are gone. Normally a team would
recruit
its own [junior] successors, but accepting recruitment as
unpaid
[junior] succesor/ colleague to those who won't
acknowledge or
fix their mess ? No.
Many web authors (not just BSD, paid or unpaid) play with
pages
to show off HTML skills also for resumes. It detracts
from pages
that should be designed for Readers, not as HTML toys for
Writers.
--
Julian Stacey. Consultant Unix Net & Sys. Eng., Munich.
http://berklix.com
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