Heiko Schulz wrote: > > I heard Google will rename our planet soon in GoogleEarth....;-) > > I admit to Curt in a lot of points here. The only advantage is there is no > advertisement, which makes the current page look really bad. > Adverts can be dropped in where required. However an observation here is that my 10 year olde nephew downloaded some backup software as this was a featured advert in the main page above the "downlaod flightgear" section. > On the other side I like the clear structure of this new concept, the NOTAM > is a great idea! I like that it makes use of a newer and fresh logo as the > current one is from the last century. > One of my dislikes is the dropdown navigation. mainly because its javascript and not search engine friendly. > Only small things which could maybe improved: > > -the visual appearence needs still a little "kick"- maybe This logo: > http://wiki.flightgear.org/images/3/3b/Wiki_logo.png with more different > aircrafts as the A10 as header bar > Whilst I like the logo, I dislike it because it contains an efficient American Killing Machine and makes FlightGear look like a shoot up. > - a simple, good looking button "2.0.0" with a link straight link to the > Download page > The home page needs some more thought imho. > -I miss the fact that we are OpenSource on the main page. Still a lot of > people thinks we are commercial and all developers are salaried workers for > "FlightGear" which leds to confusion.... > Its at the top " /The World's Leading Open Source Flight Simulator" - but see point above. / > > Is this style and Design of this concept proteced by any licence? If not We > could just take it over and find a place for the advertisement... > Not at all. I am not a designer, merely a developer. In fact a designer would be really helpful.. anyone ? Gijs ? > Or maybe better: make a package of FGFS with the whole Scenery, sell it for > less than 30Dollars for those who doesn't want and can't to download all > stuff. That would probably help against FPS and keep the page running without > advertisement.... > That's why I mentioned a while back making a donation/contribution to FG, which I would go towards Infrastructure costs.
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