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[Brett Alton <brett.jr.alton@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

So as some of you may or may not know, I applied to re-work the design
of getdeb.net sometime in 2008/08 and it wasn't until 2008/10 that I
had something worth showing (I was interfacing with Vadim P. at this
time).

I can't remember why it took me so long to complete the design or why
the design was never completed, but I assume it was because of me
becoming too busy with my contracting.

I've attached the design I had in October of last year to point out a
couple things.

Firstly, this is not a complete design. There are also many changes
I'd make to it today - probably resulting in a redesign (e.g. the
flags that represent languages, which we agreed was a bad idea).
Secondly, no mentioning the random floural design in the background.
Just let it be, lol.

I wanted to point out, however, my ideas for categories:

    *  Alphabetical
    * Categorical
    * Featured
    * License Type
    * Most Popular
    * Most Recent
    * New Releases

Right now, we just have Categorial
(http://getdeb.net/updates/category/Programming etc.) and Most Recent
(http://getdeb.net/updates), but what does everyone think about

 * Featured (maybe you guys are proud of some packages that no one has
in PPAs or that Ubuntu doesnt have even out-of-date packages for),
 * License Type (not really sure how popular that'd be, but some free
software zealots might like it),
 * Most Popular (there was a daily most popular on the last site, but
I'd really like to see the most downloaded programs over the whole
support of 9.04 or 9.10 and not be software version specific (e.g. 2.2
is more popular or has been downloaded more often than 2.1)... that
shouldn't matter. Downloads towards version 2.2 or 2.1 of a program
should go towards the total for that program)

I'm not sure what the difference is between Most Recent and New
Releases is.. maybe brand-new packages that have never had a previous
version on Get/PlayDeb?

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