Website adoption

[Mark Wyatt]

> Hmmm ... there are some problems with that page. Personally I don't like
> the general look of it (what are those symbols at the start of the
> paragraphs for? what have they got to do with Linux?) but that's just
> aesthetics.

I didn't want to do this, because there is a danger of it coming over
as just negative, but I do agree about the overall look.

> 
> The use of italics for the main body font is more of a worry. It makes the
> text harder to read on some browser/font combinations (for example it
> looks bloody horrible here on Opera, but better on Firefox as they use
> different default fonts and I don't think you're setting the font-family).
> That therefore had disability discrimination issues.
> 
I looked in Opera, so maybe that explains that.

> I'm also concerned that you're going to need a proof reader if you're
> going to be responsible for content as there's a fair number of minor
> typos in there. Is that just because you did it in a hurry or do you
> really think, for example, that "center" is spelled that way in British
> English?
> 
...there are worse problems than 'center' but that's easy to fix once 
the general direction is agreed

> I'm also not wild about "I prefer [the] second version". Who is "I"?
> 
> God, that all sounds horribly negative. Sorry.
> 
> But fundamentally you're right: the web site does need stripping back to
> something a *lot* simpler and basically static with a link to the mailing
> list (do we have an archive?). 

We do have a rather useful archive. AFAIK its even been working fairly 
consistently since the last fix, too.

I'd add that we'd need to investigate the copyright situation with any 
images that are on the site; I'm guessing that the CB2 picture is either 
free or could be made available if we ask, but the map may be more 
problematic; maybe we should link to it. Also, the page has very little 
content. I'd be tempted to include a list of links down one side of the 
page (to the rest of our pages and to other FOSS sites - I'd certainly 
include distrowatch because that has links to every 'significant' distro, 
but history shows that we would need to do this so that it doesn't need 
frequent updating)


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