[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.
-- 
Matej Kosik, icq://300133844, http://altair.dcs.elf.stuba.sk/wiki/Kosik/Main



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