On 25 Mar 2003, Jeremy Newman wrote:
OK, I believe the site is ready to go live now. If you want any changes this is your last change to get them in.
Cool -- I am quite happy with the result, even if I still have some small requests :) I do hope that we can do changes to it even after it goes live, right?
I plan to get the site live at 4pm CST today. In the meantime I'm going to work on any requests.
OK. What about: -- my Contributing changes I've email yesterday? -- I suggest we get rid of "How to Install Binary Packages" from Binary Downloads, and point people to the HowTo. There's more stuff to it, and that's the place to document it. -- similarly for "how to extract a file" from Source Download. It would be nice if we can add a table or something to it to make it a bit more consistent -- the biggest sore spot in the site is Bugzilla. The reason is that just browsing the menu the user expects a consistent behaviour (the box to the right to change), and we have that with one BIG exception: Bugzilla. And it's not a small exception: in a big flash, everything changes: page layout, headers, color scheme. Every time I click by mistake on it, I'm startled. Suggestion: create a front page that behaves uniformely with the rest of the site (like we did for Documentation). That will at least allow for a pleasant browsing experience.