On 2006.12.04 15:41:08 +0000, Robert Watson wrote: > (1) The link between the FreeBSD Project and the FreeBSD Foundation. There > are really two goals here: to reinforce the relationship between the > project and the foundation in the eyes of the reader (up with "Community", > "Developers", etc), and to bring more traffic to the Foundation web site > through primve placement. For example, in the Old World Order, it was > actually quite difficult to find out about the Foundation and evaluate its > legitimacy by visiting the FreeBSD.org web site. A major sponsor might > easily look at the page and say "Foundation? Is it even related to the > Project?", which is undesirable. While the immediate goal is to raise > funds, the Foundation is about more than just fundraising, it's also about > sponsoring activities, and drawing the visitor to the more general > Foundation pages (and not just the donations page) is important.
First, I bitched some on IRC about the change, but on further thought (a 20min trainride with nothing else to do helps to clear things up :-) ), I actually think the new location for the Foundation link is fine. Especially with the goal stated above in mind it seems like a good idea to make the link more prominent. We have to be careful not to overload the front page, but of course it's a balance act. > - Visually, despite being placed in nice spot on the page, the Donate > link is essentially lost. A clearly placed "Donate now!" link on the > FreeBSD.org front page probably makes more sense -- I'm not sure it > would best fit visually and am happy to leave that to someone else. Indeed, it actually took me some seconds to find now when I had to look for it. > (3) The news item on the fundraising drive -- I see this as no different > than any other news item, with the intention being to highlight on-going > stuff. The link here is directly to the current fundraising page, and the > fundraising drive is definitely "News", in as much as a current release is > news, a new developer is news, etc, and has to do with directing web > sitereaders to something particularly new or interesting. > > (4) The trademark acknowledgement. The text itself is required as part of > protecting the trademark whether or not the Foundation name is a link. > Given that the screen real estate is used whether or not it's a link, > making it a link probably does make sense. I agree with these two. Also, I doubt very many people even see the trademark notice on a normal visit to the page, which is at it should be, but it's still obvious for people who looks for it. -- Simon L. Nielsen _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
