=== BugMaN1 is now known as BugMaN [10:57] newz2000, you mentioned too many links as a clue to lack of credibility in a Web site [10:58] http://www.zmogo.com/gear/the-new-year-linux-resolution-day-5/ includes the morsel: "So, the first step in my clandestine scheme is to get Wine set up. I chose Wine mainly because its site is more appealing looking than VMware’s, which has all the sleek design features and well-considered organization of an expired domain name..." [11:02] and looking at the respective sites you can see he has a point [14:53] mpt: yes, good examples [14:55] yet if you worked at VMware what would you tell the people on your team was wrong with your website? [14:55] It hadn't occurred to me that I can tell whether a site is a parked domain within about 1 second [14:55] not sure why [14:56] Maybe I have a subconscious synonym detector. :-) (Parked domains often have lots of synonyms) [14:57] Wow, that would have to be a remarkably fast synonym detector to operate within 1 second [14:57] mpt: do you like the wine website better than vmware's? [14:58] They're both pretty dire [14:59] but the Wine one has at least stuff that's obviously supposed to be looked at first [14:59] It has a focus. [14:59] With the VMWare site, there are five-ish areas of text that have almost identical emphasis, and the other big block looks like a banner ad. [15:01] I think the single biggest improvement to the VMWare site would be to freeze the animation, and make it colored text on white background instead of white text on colored background. [15:01] That would make it look 90% less like an ad. [15:02] By banner ad do you mean somethign that people instintctively ignore? [15:02] i.e. is that why you dislike it? [15:05] I mean why do you dislike the idea of banner ads on a homepage promoting stuff? You've mentioned this complaint before about the graphics on ubuntu.com [15:05] * newz2000 is curious, not trying to go psychiatrist on you [22:27] newz2000: I think I'll sigh at bug #258444. [22:28] Malone bug 258444 in ubuntu-website "Please change Turkish mirrors location to Europe" [High,New] https://launchpad.net/bugs/258444