On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 12:09:30PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote: > 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. > > > > +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". > > > > 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. More specifically, serif is meant for high resolution mediums. So serif might be practical for Hi-DPI monitors, but not for traditional bad-DPI monitors that the majority of us suffer with :-( Regards, Daniel -- |: http://berrange.com -o- http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :| |: http://libvirt.org -o- http://virt-manager.org :| |: http://entangle-photo.org -o- http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :| -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list