Btw, what do you people think about the footer? For now I put both powered by WP (the default) to acknowledge their work, and a copyright by the CS project for lack of better ideas. What do you think? On Fri, 20 Jun 2014 11:46:05 -0400 "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > From: ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > [mailto:ciphershed-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Niklas Lemcke - ??? > Sent: Thursday, June 19, 2014 22:34 > To: ciphershed@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: [ciphershed] Re: Website & publicity > > On Thu, 19 Jun 2014 17:47:33 -0400 > "Alain Forget" <aforget@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I see the website has been updated; nice! > > > > Maybe you're still working on it, Niklas, but here are some additional > > comments (on things I consider important) as I'm poking around: > > > > * Whole site: > > ** Could our site have a favicon of the CipherShed logo? It makes finding > > CipherShed tabs/windows easier, and looks a bit more professional. > is next on my list > > Favicon is up! Nice. :-) > > > ** Could we please left-align the Home, News, Download, How-To, Wiki, > > Forum, About, links, instead of the current right-alignment? > meh, you're the second person to say that. Here's my theory: the logo & > name is on the left, so ne menu being on the right balances it ~ gives > it symmetry. I'll put it on the left for now so we can see if that was > a stupid theory. > > Thanks for doing this; I think it looks much better and is easier to > find/access the links. Plus, it aligns rather nicely with the banner on top. > That said, that banner takes up an awful lot of screen real estate; could it > be made smaller/shorter? > > > * How-To: > > ** I like your sentence here. However, could we change the second sentence > > to, "For a How-To on TrueCrypt, please see the TrueCrypt User Guide", and > > the last three words should like to our locally hosted copy (which I don't > > think yet exists) of the TrueCrypt User Guide, which you can download here: > > https://www.grc.com/misc/truecrypt/TrueCrypt%20User%20Guide.pdf > Exactly, doesnt exist yet, which is why it's not a link yet. As soon as > it exists I'll link it ;) > > Great! :-) > > > * News: > > ** Good that there's already news! I think it's important to keep this > > updated (not daily, of course, but at least once a month), so the public > > knows we're active. > there's already news? I'm obviously talking about updates about the > projcet. I think I didnt get you there > > Oh, I was just happy to see that we have some news posted on the News page. > I've been to too many "new" websites whose News page says, "Coming soon..." > or something lame like that. So I was just happy that there already is > something there; and that I hope we remember to keep it updated! > > > * About: > > ** I recommend listing people in alphabetical order, simply because that's > > normal/typical. Anything odd/weird (even apparently insignificant things) > > could turn-off users or raise their suspicions/skepticism. > They are listed in (counter-)alphabetical order. It even says it up > there: for no particular reason. Stephen put that there, and I liked > it. :D > > Yeah, I know that's what it says, but most organisations/groups who want to > be taken seriously usually try to stick to conventions. Again, I want to > avoid giving potential users any reason to think we're "weird" or "eccentric" > (regardless of what may be the truth), because it'll give them reasons to be > skeptical of us and our product. So I recommend listing everyone in correct > alphabetical order. > > Alain > > -- Niklas At the time of writing, no warrants have ever been served to me, Niklas Lemcke, nor am I under any personal legal compulsion concerning the CipherShed project. I do not know of any searches or seizures of my assets.
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