On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:17:18AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
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.
True, you do, but you must also admit that this doesn't do most of the bad stuff "modern" pages do. You definitely know what I'm talking about. ;)
[...]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.+1The 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".
This might be an issue, but the bigger one I see in this is that there is no place on the front page (or anywhere rather) that says "Documentation". "Learn" is very misleading for me.
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.
Serif is meant for paper, monitors should show Sans-Serif. And I'm not saying it just because I like it that way, but as it is supposed to be like that. Not all might like it, though.
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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