DWright wrote:http://website-beta.mozilla.org
I seriously hope this is some leftover remnant of http://www.mozillazine.org/talkback.html?article=3915 and not some yet another ill-conceived concoction that will fail to do anything remarkable.
If it's not, it's sad proof that no one in charge of the website understands that essentially what boils down to a stylesheet change doesn't matter. I believe it's clear now that mediocrity must end in order for Mozilla to even hope of succeeding. (Of course, no one even knows what this success is. Is it crashing IE to 10%? Is it influencing indirectly IE to be standard friendly? It's hard to win, if you can't see the finishline, or even the track.)
What's so freaking hard about getting all the crap off the frontpage and leaving only competent text about Firefox & Thunderbird, forum links, and demo links? I mean come on now, it doesn't take months to create such a simple site. (My mockup took about three days.)
Look now, it doesn't even HAVE to be a new design. Just take the current design in its entirety and have my right gray menu on the left of the new design. In the column under "The Latest From Mozilla", have a box for Firefox and one for Thunderbird, without idiotic text. Then have a few flash demo links and link to a simple, short forum page...
What's hard about creating a mozillazine page with only a pair or two of enduser-only forums?? What's hard about creating a flash demo for 5-10 (or at least the top 3) features, a flash demo that amounts to little more than animated GIFs??
Who's in charge of marketing and the website's anyways? Perhaps the answer to the question (--- I'm guessing "no one in particular") is the problem.
What ever happened to the blakeross.com marketing projects? The last one was on Aug 2, making week 5, almost a week overdue. I suspect that someone had a number 10 fetish and went ahead with the project without actually coming up with the total number of projects... Oh well.