[FreeGeek] the website

[David Repa]

Greetings,

I have been looking at the website today, and I have a couple of
thoughts.  I really think it is too busy, with too much information.
some not even relevant to what we are trying to accomplish.  I think
the idea of the drupal is great, and sorely needed for some of our
purposes.  However, seeing as freegeekvancouver.org is going to become
a focal point for anyone in the community who wants to know us, maybe
we should make something more direct.

At this point, in my mind, our web presence should benefit our mission
of securing funding. I think a page that conveys our message/mission
in a clean and direct manner would serve us better when approaching
possible financial support, and hardware donations.  It should be
clear to anyone looking at our opening page for the first time what we
do/plan to do.  Currently one would have to read the Momentum article
to get a better idea.  Perhaps deciding on two or three messages we
want to convey for a first impression would be more helpful.

Not only does my concern stem from a simplicity standpoint but an
accessibility standpoint.  Is the drupal viewable by all browsers?  I
don't know, maybe someone could let me know.  I know that my Mozilla
browser is unhappy with certain aspects of it.  I do know that a
simple html page can be done in a manner that is viewable by
everything, even lynx(a great ad free experience).

Would a simple "made from scratch" html page that links to the drupal
be more ideal.   Perhaps even the appearance of something simple will
aid us better in securing monies?  I know that this idea would take
some extra time to code(Aaron said he would give it a go), but I think
it would be worth it.

This is of course is my opinion, and I would like to know your
thoughts on this. Of course if we decided to change things a bit, we
would have to do this soon.

-- 
David