Subject: Re: Website design proposal
To: Curt Sampson , Lubomir Sedlacik <salo@Xtrmntr.org>
From: John Nemeth <jnemeth@victoria.tc.ca>
List: netbsd-advocacy
Date: 10/19/2005 23:06:07
On Feb 2,  9:27pm, Curt Sampson wrote:
} On Fri, 14 Oct 2005, Lubomir Sedlacik wrote:
} 
} > keep in mind that the priority for the NetBSD Project website is
} > accessibility, not eye candy.
} 
} I'd agree. But as it's presented (i.e., without, for the moment, taking
} into account usability on Lynx, my phone, etc.), the new idea for the
} site is more accessable. Here are some examples:
} 
}      * Information of lesser importance to new visitors, such as how many
}      different languages our web site is available in, is hidden (by putting
}      it in a dropdown). Yet the fact that other languages are available is
}      still quite clear.

     To a new visitor that isn't a native speaker of English, this
could be the single most important thing.  It really should be right up
front.

}-- End of excerpt from Curt Sampson