[Firebird-website] Comments on competing website designs

[David J. <dav...@ea...>]

Hi,
Not only did I join this list, I looked at the competing websites.

My conclusion, to my surprise, is that I like the firebird.sourceforge.net
layout and appearance better than Markus'.

Markus, I hate the light blue background.  Blue is my favorite color, this
is a nice light blue, but to me the use as a background makes the site look
very cold, distant, and uninviting.

Markus, could I suggest, that despite your protestations that you have to
work on your thesis, you would gain a great deal of credibility with
firebird if you were to spend time researching content and writing some
missing pieces to (either) website.  I agree with you that the number of
links to other sites is excessive, the essential firebird info should all
be at firebird on sourceforge.  Noone else has time or energy to make this
happen.  Would you consider putting together some of this information? I
think you would provide a useful service to the community and also gain a
good deal of background that many feel you are sometimes missing.  Perhaps
you could use this as an opportunity to flesh out your site with real
content?


Thanks

david jencks