On Mon, Oct 31, 2016 at 12:41:41 +0000, Daniel Berrange wrote: > The current libvirt website design dates from 2008 and > has not changed significantly since. Compared to > contemporary open source project websites it looks > pretty dated and cluttered. IMO dated is not that bad. Cluttered is the issue perhaps. Said this I don't really like all the "modern" web pages, thus I'm biased. [...] > The libvirt logo used a specific font with angled tops > to letters like "l", "b" and "t" - this is the "Overpass" > font, made available by Red Hat under an open source > font license. The re-branding makes use of webfont > support so that we can use this font across the entire > libvirt website for a consistent look. > > The colors of the website CSS now exactly match the > colors used in the logo in most places. +1 > The bigger change is in the layout, with the huge > left hand sitemap nav bar being removed to give more > space to the main content. The front page now directly > links to the key pages that were shown to be highly > visited in the apache web logs. Most of the rest of > the links are now available from the "docs.html" page > linked from "Learn" in the top nav bar. I'm not a fan of this despite having monitors in portrait mode and thus finally having the whole width with content. What bothers me is that for navigation you can't select a different section without opening the menu page (either by going back, or by clicking on the "learn". On the other hand I (and my favorities completion in my browser) remember most of the pages I'm accessing, thus I'm not using the menu anyways usually. > Another key change is that the download page now > covers all language bindings, test suites, docs > released by the project, not merely the core C > library. > > Finally a new page "contribute.html" is added as the > source of information useful to people wishing to get > involved in the libvirt project. > > View the new site here > > https://berrange.fedorapeople.org/libvirt-new-website/ > > Note that the front page includes a feed of 4 most > recent blog posts, however, if visiting over https:// > this will be blocked by browsers. In firefox you > can tell it to allow http:// content temporarily > at which point the feed will appear. I'll be doing > a proper fix by getting a TLS cert for virt-tools.org > website setup. In this new design all the XML snippets and other stuff enclosed in <code> in the source is not in a monospace font any more, which is terrible. Additionally I don't quite like sans-serif fonts for big blocks of texts, but the old page was not better in this aspect. I'd be in favor of changing to a serif font. Overall I don't disagree with this as long as the XML and code snippets stay in a monospace font. Peter
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