[Webteam] Need comments/approval for About page

[Brad Fuller]

Larry Trutter wrote:
>> From: Brad Fuller <brad at bradfuller.com>
>> To: webteam at lists.squeakfoundation.org
>> Subject: Re: [Webteam] Need comments/approval for About page
>> Date: Sun, 18 Feb 2007 09:30:26 -0800
>>
>> Larry Trutter wrote:
>>> The Squeak license sections has been removed.
>>>
>>> Please check out the test site About page:
>>> http://wwwtest.squeak.org/About/
>>>
>>> Any more suggestions? Is it ready to go "live" yet?
>> Looks really good.
>> Before you copy it to the main site (well.. that's my vote anyway) I 
>> have comments:
>>
>> ---
>> Is there a way to open a new window where links go off the squeak.org 
>> site? That would be preferable for links for Ruby, Python, etc, to 
>> keep people at the squeak site. I don't know how to do that in 
>> SmallWiki, though, except use html.
> 
> Well, if the intent is to keep the people at the squeak site, I think 
> the simplest thing would be to remove the links. After all, there's 
> nothing to keep them from googling Ruby and Python. Will that be a 
> workable solution?

Nope, I personally want to keep the links. The standard method is to 
make sure visitors do not leave your site. To do that, authors use

a href="http://www.squeak.org/" target="_blank">Squeak</a>

But, let's not worry about it. No big deal.

>> ---
>> (I thought that Squeak was Smalltalk-80 compliant. I didn't know it 
>> was "mostly".)
> 
> Yes, Goran's original word was "largely". I thought "mostly" might read 
> better.
> 
>> I suggest to not link "language" to the "Smalltalk" page. When I took 
>> the link, I thought I was going to learn Squeak's implementation of 
>> Smalltalk. That's how the sentence reads to me.
> 
> Also, there is a link to "Smalltalk" page on the left side so I went 
> ahead and removed that link.

I say Great Job! and

"publish"

Others?

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