RFC: proposed changes to the www.FreeBSD.org/ports/ web page

[Joel Dahl]

On Sun, 2005-12-11 at 21:52 -0600, Mark Linimon wrote:
> The current ports web page has several defects:
> 
>  - It is too long; the search bar and the category listing scroll off
>    the page.
> 
>  - During the last rework, we gained the ability to see the categories
>    listed by logical group but lost the ability to see them alphabetically.
> 
>  - Some important information (references) are missing.
> 
>  - The left-side menu is unsuited for the page.
> 
> The proposed rework fixes all the above.  It is a compromise design
> between making the page useful (again) for experts, who will generally
> want to come to the page(s) to search, and novices, who are referred to
> the page from the main page of the website.  As such, I do not expect
> that it will truly satisfy anyone.  However, IMHO it is a significant
> improvement over the mess that is there.
> 
> The prototype is at http://people.freebsd.org/~linimon/www/en/ports/.
> The link to the actual serach cgi is not installed but if it was it would
> be identical to http://www.FreeBSD.org/cgi/ports.cgi (unchanged).
> 
> While this is the type of change that could be endlessly debated, unless
> there are strenuous objections I'd like to go ahead and commit what I
> have in a few days as at least a starting point.

Looks good, no objections.

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Joel - joel at FreeBSD dot org