The Green lock is good, firstname lastname is ok, because it's an example to use two words.Don't you guys notice anything weird about my screenshot up there?
Apologies. I thought you were annoyed due to the friction introduced by creating one_more_account.I think 2 people seriously miss the point here.
Don't you guys notice anything weird about my screenshot up there?
The FreeBSD.org site is very antiquated in its web presentation, both design-wise and frontend code-wise. A while back, I offered to look into fixing that up but was told the backend code that generates the HTML is, for the lack of a word that wasn't used, difficult to change. I tried a CSS-only solution to the presentation but it's a mess of a HTML document structure.
I highly doubt that.Pure laziness.
I highly doubt that.
The FreeBSD.org site is very antiquated in its web presentation, both design-wise and frontend code-wise. A while back, I offered to look into fixing that up but was told the backend code that generates the HTML is, for the lack of a word that wasn't used, difficult to change. I tried a CSS-only solution to the presentation but it's a mess of a HTML document structure. I wasn't willing to do that much work for free.
Note the word "wasn't". News by the end of the month.
A Professional website that is home to a Professional Operating System should not have a website that is anything less. Let alone one with download links that overlap or does not scale down to size properly. It does not convey professionalism.
For someone new to FreeBSD I would speculate their first thought would be "If their website is in this condition, can the OS be any better?"
The Debian website scales down correctly without links overlapping. I would be embarrassed and appalled that mine didn't and make it a top priority.
I have already made site recommendations, so I'll make another one and recommend getting rid of whatever program you're using to generate your markup and hire someone professional, perhaps drhowarddrfine, to do it right. So it is valid code, too. It fails now.
It is the FreeBSD 25th Anniversary. What better time to do it, or worse time to look bad?
To me the website is clean and looks just fine, it is functional and is good art (good proportions / ergonomics + it builds the right kind of rapport).
As far as the display issues are concerned, at least on my smartphone the website is just zoomed out, it doesn't attempt to go responsive so I don't see any display problem.
And beauty is in the eyes of the beholder, thus the problem with defining what looks good when it comes to art. However, when one gets into the technical considerations, there is no opinion involved. The document layout is poor and inconsistent which makes changes difficult and hard to manage. The site declares itself as being served as XHTML yet serves the pages as HTML. Not being responsive--actually adaptive--to your device is an issue not a feature as it's almost unreadable on my phone.To me the website is clean and looks just fine, it is functional and is good art (good proportions / ergonomics + it builds the right kind of rapport).
It does tell me that their website isn't really a priority. I didn't get FreeBSD because their website. It isn't a strech for some, to wonder if they take shortcuts behind their kernel.
For someone new to FreeBSD I would speculate their first thought would be "If their website is in this condition, can the OS be any better?"
The site declares itself as being served as XHTML yet serves the pages as HTML. Not being responsive--actually adaptive--to your device is an issue not a feature as it's almost unreadable on my phone.
It was someone in the FreeBSD organization itself that broached the topic on here of helping make the site look better which is why I tried to get involved. The site was built long ago by people not well versed in HTML document structure and that's why it's in the state it's in now.
I have already made site recommendations, so I'll make another one and recommend getting rid of whatever program you're using to generate your markup and hire someone professional, perhaps drhowarddrfine, to do it right. So it is valid code, too. It fails now.
How do you expect anyone to take this stuff seriously like this?