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"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
Posted Dec 16, 2006 0:58 UTC (Sat) by TwoTimeGrime (guest, #11688)Parent article: "BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
The page is very busy and messy. Why is there so much stuff on the page? For example, why is there a calendar on the left side of the page? I think people could find out what day it is if they really wanted to know. Why is a press release on the page? There's no easy to find information about why I might not want to run Vista.
I think these people need to focus on their message and rethink what they are trying to present.
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"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
Posted Dec 16, 2006 1:08 UTC (Sat) by krishna (subscriber, #24080) [Link]
Ugh -- agreed. Looks like the people designing this page don't seem tounderstand that Vista brings at least some eye candy to the table. It's
surprising, though, that http://www.fsf.org is laid out reasonably well,
but this one falls short of that. Small consolation that it's valid xhtml
1.0.
"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
Posted Dec 16, 2006 1:15 UTC (Sat) by mikov (subscriber, #33179) [Link]
The calendar is so you can browse older posts by date. Duh :-)I agree with the general sentiment though. It is a blog - not a site
whether one could find meaningful, well organized information, about why
not to run Vista.
"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
Posted Dec 16, 2006 8:12 UTC (Sat) by allesfresser (subscriber, #216) [Link]
The calendar widget is a default part of Plone, which is running the BadVista site. They probably left it in there because they thought it would come in handy (as someone else said above) to find older posts by date.
"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
Posted Dec 16, 2006 14:06 UTC (Sat) by vondo (guest, #256) [Link]
I hate it when the homepage for a project is a blog or a collection of news releases. That's just stupid. The homepage should be for someone who knows next to nothing about your project, not for your developers. I don't care which bugs version 3.1.4.5 of your release fix, I want to know what your project DOES first.
The last one I was looking at was GNU Radio. Never did really understand what that was, but it took me 10 minutes of hunting around to figure out that I didn't think I was interested in it.
"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
Posted Dec 18, 2006 11:11 UTC (Mon) by Tjebbe (subscriber, #34055) [Link]
i disagree, i think the default page should show the thing that the page is mostly visited for.
If the site is mainly visited by developers, this should be development type stuff, like changelogs etc. If the site is mainly visited by people who have visited before, and want to know if there's anything new, this should be news. If the site is mainly visited by people trying to figure out what it's about, then you should open up with an about page.
Of course, the About page should be very reachable within one click on a very visible en clear link.
"BadVista.org": FSF launches campaign against Microsoft Vista
Posted Dec 18, 2006 16:54 UTC (Mon) by AJWM (subscriber, #15888) [Link]
> the default page should show the thing that the page is mostly visited for.
Nonsense. That's what bookmarks are for. It's okay to have a few lines of "what's new" or headlines on the main page (that helps let the newcomer know whether the site is active or comatose), but the default page shouldn't presume anything about the visitor.