[ANN] new website for squeak.org in beta :)
Matej Kosik
kosik at fiit.stuba.sk
Sun Apr 17 10:13:01 UTC 2005
Doug Way wrote:
>
> On Apr 16, 2005, at 4:33 PM, Martin Wirblat wrote:
>
>> stéphane ducasse wrote:
>>
>>> Hi guys
>>> We have been working to get a new website for squeak (thanks pavel,
>>> alex and the others...)
>>> Please have a look at
>>> http://box1.squeakfoundation.org:7777/
>
>
> Wow, this is really starting to look good. Many thanks to Stephane for
> helping organize this effort, and to Pavel, Alex and everyone working on
> it.
>
> It looks polished but not oppressively corporate, and reasonably
> well-organized. By far the best-looking squeak.org page I've seen,
> anyway. :)
>
>> The "About"-page has to become the start page in exchange for "Hot
>> sites". People want to be informed what Squeak is first of all and not
>> be sent immediately to another site. Currently your start page looks
>> suspiciously like a doorway page...
>
>
> Hmm, it's not at all clear to me that this would be a good idea.
> There's too much in the About section to have as the start page.
> Although arguably the intro sentence on the start page could be expanded
> a bit into a small paragraph.
>
> Minor comment... I wonder if "Linux" deserves its own link in the
> Download box on the right. Linux is probably the third of the major
> platforms, everything else could go under "Others". (Although I'm not
> really a Linux user... is there a single Linux release that would be
> appropriate?)
I agree. I would also like the link to the Linux port of Squeak from the main page. Where it should point to is a good question.
>
> - Doug
>
>
PS: Thank you all who maintain the Squeak-on-Linux. I use it. It works well.
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