[MPlayer-users] new site design

[Robert Munro]

I agree completely.  As long as the website works to distribute Mplayer,
provide FAQ, RTFM, bugreport material, and access to email and listserv,
I don't care if they pick zebra stripe wallpaper with pink flamingos as
hover buttons (but these are _not_ design suggestions).  The code rocks,
not the website - as long as it works - and Mplayer is awesome software.

That said however, I personally liked the old look rather better (except
for the javascript snow in the monitor window; it seemed...
unnecessary).
I thought it had a certain elegance and subtlety of graphic design, even
though the mass of information presented was perhaps a bit overwhelming.

The new website solves the main-page information overload at the cost of
hover buttons (which hide complexity, reduce multipage click-depth, but
reduce immediacy of apprehension yet increase mouse movements required).
Yeah, the color scheme is somewhat, er... primary, and the frame corners
don't match the line width of the frames, but these are all mere design.

The Mplayer developers are world-class multimedia coders, simply
awesome.
Just be glad they _have_ a website, and not just some obscure FTP
server. 

Best regards, and OK - this is all I will have to offer on this
topic....
Robert Munro
  

SMuelas wrote:
> 
> ...Let the people do what they like as long as they don't have any
> duties with you. This is just a  matter of taste. Those people are
> giving us for free an stupendous player. ...