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Debian's website also received an upgrade[1]: > On the occasion of the release of Debian 6.0 Squeeze, the Debian website team is pleased to publish a new desig

Debian's website also received an upgrade[1]: > On the occasion of the release of Debian 6.0 Squeeze, the Debian website team is pleased to publish a new design for Debian's web presence. After roughly 13 years with nearly the same design, the layout and design of many of the websites run by Debian changed together with today's release of Debian Squeeze. Debian's main website and its wiki, lists archive, blog aggregator planet and package information system now have a consistent new layout. The new layout is meant to give Debian's web presence a cleaner and more modern look as well as making the web pages easier to use and navigate. [1]: http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205b http://www.debian.org/News/2011/20110205b

rkuester 16y ago
I don't have enough expertise in design to articulate why, but it seems to fall quite short of `cleaner and more modern.' Well, maybe it is a bit less '90s than the previous design, but I'd hardly call it clean and modern. The logo off to the left of the banner is odd, the different fonts and sizes aren't pleasing together, the columns of links seem like something you'd see at the bottom of a page rather than in the middle -- I could go on. Sorry to call someone's baby ugly. Is it just me?
- agazso 16y ago
  I wouldn't call it `cleaner and more modern' either but I really don't care. The best thing in Debian is that you don't have to visit their website often (or at all), because everything works in it, and everything works from command line.
- squeezingswirls 16y ago
  Debian is made by volunteers and sure here at HN are amazing web designers, so jump to Debian ship and help to make Debian project even greater.
- philjr 16y ago
  All of the main "volunteer" Linux distribution websites are terrible in terms of design. Gentoo, Slackware, CentOS (ugh!) and Debian all leave a great deal to be desired. Every time I visit the CentOS homepages and have to navigate their ugly menu, I die a little inside.

rkuester 16y ago

I don't have enough expertise in design to articulate why, but it seems to fall quite short of `cleaner and more modern.' Well, maybe it is a bit less '90s than the previous design, but I'd hardly call it clean and modern. The logo off to the left of the banner is odd, the different fonts and sizes aren't pleasing together, the columns of links seem like something you'd see at the bottom of a page rather than in the middle -- I could go on. Sorry to call someone's baby ugly. Is it just me?

agazso 16y ago
I wouldn't call it `cleaner and more modern' either but I really don't care. The best thing in Debian is that you don't have to visit their website often (or at all), because everything works in it, and everything works from command line.
squeezingswirls 16y ago
Debian is made by volunteers and sure here at HN are amazing web designers, so jump to Debian ship and help to make Debian project even greater.
philjr 16y ago
All of the main "volunteer" Linux distribution websites are terrible in terms of design. Gentoo, Slackware, CentOS (ugh!) and Debian all leave a great deal to be desired. Every time I visit the CentOS homepages and have to navigate their ugly menu, I die a little inside.