The features of Puppy sound tempting, but I was a bit put off by the lack of a professional looking web site.
I am not trying to bash anyone here. I am just saying that my first initial response to seeing the official Puppy web site was not good.
However, I still think I am going to download and try Puppy.
lack of a professional looking web site
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linuxgamer
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I now realize that I must have been looking at the old site?
Old
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/
New?
http://www.puppylinux.org
Old
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/
New?
http://www.puppylinux.org
Barry focuses most of his attention at improving Puppy. It leaves him little time to maintain his website.
On the good side. His website has more relevant information than many other distribution sites that look better.
I don't see Barry's website as a 'marketing' website but as a place for him to share his ideas, discoveries and developments.
On the good side. His website has more relevant information than many other distribution sites that look better.
I don't see Barry's website as a 'marketing' website but as a place for him to share his ideas, discoveries and developments.
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yeah, the .org one is the community website i'd say.linuxgamer wrote:I now realize that I must have been looking at the old site?
Old
http://www.goosee.com/puppy/
New?
http://www.puppylinux.org
Dom
Puppy does on occasion undersell itself.
Damnit 
The forum ate my previous post!
I hope it tasted well!
Anyways... I too was put off by the looks of the site. A redesign, imho, would be a very good idea.
Perhaps a webmaster can be appointed (or a designing competition could be held).
But please, let the competitors use at least css!
I'll kill anyone who uses Flash
Hmm... That's a bit harsh.
I'll just... Torture them!
Yes, that's it.
Now stop talking to yourself, Mathias!
Oh, sorry!
The forum ate my previous post!I hope it tasted well!
Anyways... I too was put off by the looks of the site. A redesign, imho, would be a very good idea.
Perhaps a webmaster can be appointed (or a designing competition could be held).
But please, let the competitors use at least css!
I'll kill anyone who uses Flash
Hmm... That's a bit harsh.
I'll just... Torture them!
Yes, that's it.
Now stop talking to yourself, Mathias!
Oh, sorry!
website look
I was not turned off by the website, I feel the developer that goes to eyecandy is a windows VB style programmer. The functionally and hyperlinks reminded me of a simpler time when all you need was vi and a half day to learn all there was to HTML. I learned it from a linux big book from 1998 it was only a chapter, with examples and the whole distro only took a single CD, and got three with the 40lb book OVERPRICED.
I later learned javascript from one of the authors at a jobsite, I was only one of two non-Phd's on the team.
I later learned javascript from one of the authors at a jobsite, I was only one of two non-Phd's on the team.
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Sometimes a site like the old goosee site (back with 0.9.8-ish) seems more real than fancy ones. Like the difference between walking through a slightly run-down neighborhood compared to a spick and span subdivision with identical cookie-cutter homes and people who try to kick you out if you aren't sub-par like the rest of them. I got to the site and thought: "Woah! Cheesey tables and long pages crammed with stuff! This distro is actually being developed!" It also implied to me that the development was something kept open for people to see and even contribute to, not tucked away in a corner to keep it looking "professional."
Unfortunately, many people don't think that way, and prefer the MS method of sites that make it hard to find anything useful, are loaded with ActiveX garbage, and definately don't offer access to the developer's forum
Unfortunately, many people don't think that way, and prefer the MS method of sites that make it hard to find anything useful, are loaded with ActiveX garbage, and definately don't offer access to the developer's forum
I actually learned the basics of HTML when I was in third or fourth grade (between eight and ten years old), but I didn't make any sites because I had no webspace (and wasn't allowed to have webspace). Later, when I did get webspace (twelve-years old), I discovered the wysiwyg. Eventually, I decided I'd rather code it myself (because it would be harder and cooler) and re-learned HTML. Then I discovered java-script, then css, then php.The functionally and hyperlinks reminded me of a simpler time when all you need was vi and a half day to learn all there was to HTML.
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Yeah, eye-candy is not needed. A good looking site can be well done using just pure html and some clever placement of images.
Not one to toot my own horn, but see my site for example ( http://www.stuffs.uk.tt ) All done in dreamweaver and notepad. IT uses CSS and carefully placed tables and images, and its simple and easy to use...even if it seriously needs an update.
I mean lets take a quick look at puppylinux.com. the font, time new roman, yeah you can get away with it in some cases, but not there, it just looks a bit to formal and boring (i know i was on about eye candy earlier.) And then the functionality of the site, the bits with the quotes from puppy users resize, but the "mission statement" box doesn't. It's simple little things like that.
Also, i think the whole site is a bit to formal, i dont think it reflects the layed back and fun puppy OS and community.
A name like puppy linux is hard to accurately represent with times new roman
Dom
Not one to toot my own horn, but see my site for example ( http://www.stuffs.uk.tt ) All done in dreamweaver and notepad. IT uses CSS and carefully placed tables and images, and its simple and easy to use...even if it seriously needs an update.
I mean lets take a quick look at puppylinux.com. the font, time new roman, yeah you can get away with it in some cases, but not there, it just looks a bit to formal and boring (i know i was on about eye candy earlier.) And then the functionality of the site, the bits with the quotes from puppy users resize, but the "mission statement" box doesn't. It's simple little things like that.
Also, i think the whole site is a bit to formal, i dont think it reflects the layed back and fun puppy OS and community.
A name like puppy linux is hard to accurately represent with times new roman
Dom