Re: [PATCH v2 00/19] Redo website layout and branding

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On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 03:18:31PM +0100, Pavel Hrdina wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:48:07PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> > On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:50:11AM +0000, Daniel P. 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.
> > >
> > >This series incrementally changes the website to have
> > >a completely new layout and branding.
> > >
> > >Since the original adobe illustrator files are long
> > >since lost, this series introduces a newly created
> > >variant of the libvirt logo with Inkscape as an SVG
> > >file.
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >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.
> > >
> > >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
> > >
> > > v2: https://berrange.fedorapeople.org/libvirt-new-website-v2/
> > > v1: https://berrange.fedorapeople.org/libvirt-new-website/
> > >
> > 
> > ACK from me, though you might want for outhers to check how it looks for
> > them (e.g. Peter).
> 
> ACK from me too.  I like the new design, nice job!
> 
> I have one followup question, are you planning to change the design of our
> wiki as well?

Absolutely - I'll do that at the same time as pushing the website
live to minimise time they are out of sync.


Regards,
Daniel
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