[ gpsdrive ] Project branding and website

[Julian Stacey]

> Hi! I'm from Finland and I've been dreaming about putting a GPS-device on my
> bike (a scooter from Derbi) and checked out some of Garmins products, and
> then began searching for software working on Linux (which I prefer to use)
> and i found GPSDrive.
> 
> I think GPSDrive (Yeah... it's not Gps, it's GPS) would be very more popular
> if the website weren't so geekish. I was about closing the website

URL ? I't neither in your posting nor in mail footer. (See below)

> because I
> tought the project wasn't in development, it looks like the website was made
> back in 1998.

Neither good nor bad merely 'cos it's not trendy.
  http://www.freebsd.org got much Worse some years back when some
  misguided `improvers' messed up both its front page & search function.
  Old one here BTW http://www.berklix.org/freebsd.org/


> I'm really good at designing with CSS and XHTML 1.0 Strict (all validated by
> W3C) and using mySQL, PHP, and CMS-systems. I'm also familiar with Adobe
> Illustrator

Adobe ?! A free source project documented by commercial proprietary
binaries others don't also have for backup, if eg you were ill or
fell of your bike ?

> and I would be very interested at branding this project much
> better than it's now. Think of other GPL-projects which websites look very
> up-to-date and open source already at the frontpage. Light and fresh. This
> is what I would call closed source from the 90's 

Wrong. I would Not read this list if it was a closed source project.
	http://www.gpsdrive.de/download.shtml

> and I think MANY people
> closed the website without looking at it, thinking that you guys ended
> developing the project 10 years ago.
> 
> If you're interested in some cooperation, feel free to contact me.

I'm just a reader who planned to use sources on a project a while
back, but got cancelled, but I'd urge any interested to consider
carefully any objectives in web redesign.  Much seems a waste of
time, I know at least 2 opinionated `modern' web designers in my
own city, & sometimes it gets worse not better, & often there's
about as much agreement & as pointless to debate as "What's the
best beer ?" Perhaps best to save most energy to write C not HTML ;-)

> // Alexander
> 
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> <div dir="ltr">Hi! I&#39;m from Finland and I&#39;ve been dreaming about putting a GPS-device

The same stuff twice !  That will tell some readers something !

> _______________________________________________
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> GPSdrive at lists.gpsdrivers.org
> http://lists.gpsdrivers.org/mailman/listinfo/gpsdrive

List Owner: I suggest add URL http://www.gpsdrive.de/ to automatic footer.


Cheers,
Julian
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