Also: I'm also planning to do some general cleanup on the website. I'm
not happy with some changes I made when I made the last update to the
website earlier this year. I don't think these changes will be very
big, but you'll notice some changes. The biggest changes will be on
the "Download" page and the "Forums" page.
When I made the last update, I tried to make the "Download" page
easier to find the things you needed to download. That's why I broke
it up into those separate tables, and used the obvious "Download"
buttons.
--> I'm not sure that works very well, so I want to make it even
simpler. I might move some stuff to the front page ("Download FreeDOS!
Here are the options") and make separate pages that have more
information and specific download links for what you need to get. As
an example: to download the Fedora Linux distribution, the
https://getfedora.org/ website has two big info-boxes for
"Workstation" and "Server," each with a "learn more" link and a
"Download" button. I'm thinking about something like that.
For the "Forums" page, I plan to greatly simplify and focus this page.
See my other email that I just sent about that. Maybe I'll also use a
similar "info-box" approach to highlight the freedos-devel and
freedos-user email lists, and the *few* other forums that we want to
highlight ("DOS Ain't Dead", and the few others)
I might also move the social media links from the bottom (footer) of
the page to the top (header).
I'll set up the test site and try some things there before I push big
changes to the main website. But smaller, more obvious stuff (link
cleanup on the "Forums" page, etc) I can do now. "Big changes" means
things like the "info-box" idea, since that requires building out new
pages.
Jim
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