On Tue, 2016-11-08 at 11:50 +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/ > > > Changed in v2: > > - Fix use of monospace font for code/pre blocks > - Set max page width to 60em, to avoid body content > getting really long lines on wide monitors > - Extend footer links to include email and irc > links on all pages > - Use the normal weight Overpass font for body > content > - Re-create logos to avoid anti-aliasing by inkscape > for cripser look > - Add some content to the XML format page > - Misc typos > - Fix hiding of 'home' text in top banner logo > - Provide improved SVG files for logo and PNG > rendered versions in standard sizes > - Replace 'made with libvirt' logo with a new > 'libvirt powered' logo on apps.html page > > Daniel P. Berrange (19): > docs: use overpass font for website > docs: add master SVG for libvirt logo > docs: switch to new website banner > docs: redo style of front page > docs: provide new style logos for the apps page > docs: add footer to all pages > docs: simplify style for headers > docs: add page describing contribution to libvirt > docs: add three core links in the header bar > docs: remove todo page > docs: remove related links page > Revert "syntax-check: Enforce <code> inside <dt> elements" > docs: rewrite content on front page to be more useful > docs: expand downloads page to cover all modules > docs: add some improved styling to contact page > docs: fill out docs page with useful links > docs: remove navigation sidebar from pages > docs: remove outdated or duplicated content > docs: add some content to the XML format main page Definitely NEWS file material, I would say! :) -- Andrea Bolognani / Red Hat / Virtualization -- libvir-list mailing list libvir-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/libvir-list