Re: Website

[Hiten Pandya <hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I will probably be re-doing the website in about a month's time from 
now.  Your suggestions will be taken into consideration.  Thanks.


	-Hiten
	hmp@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

Erik P. Skaalerud wrote:

> I'd like to post a few suggestions to the website.
>
> * Change the mainpage to a newspage.
>  - I really think that people should see a more generic first-page, a 
> page with "about" would be more suitable for the current text that is at 
> the mainpage. How about some news instead? Not talking about a flood of 
> news aka some typical phpnuke site, but some informative simple text, 
> and just some news (for example about the new release).
>
> * Change alot of the text at the download page
>
> "There are several ways to install DragonFly on your computer. Some of 
> these methods require prior BSD experience with tools like disklabel or 
> boot0cfg, and we have no completed installation program at this point."
>
> Well, we do have a installation program at this point now, don't we? :-)
>
> "DragonFly CDs are 'live', meaning these CDs will boot your system and 
> let you log in as root (no password) and install to your IDE disk-based 
> system. Make sure you read the README file, as this is not an automated 
> installation."
>
> Well, I dont think most people will install manually now that the 
> installer is in place.
> IDE disk-based system? Well, dragon.BSDTech.com is all SCSI, and it got 
> installed from the nymphia iso a week ago :-)
>
> "An installer program for DragonFly is in beta, based off of recent 
> DragonFly releases"
>
> Well, it's now in base so perhaps the text should be changed so that 
> people will know where the home of the installer is rather where they 
> can get it. Perhaps on another page? I'm not really sure.
>
>
> - Erik