On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 9/10/13, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> There has been a lot of discussion on the way the website is being used, > >> many users don't have the knowledge from the original theme of OOo. When > >> oracle came in, it broke the common theme across different websites, > >> using > >> the one we currently use. > >> > >> Regardless of the quality of the design, many sites had old designs > >> except > >> for the main site. > >> > >> As Apache came in, there has been very little design efforts on the > >> website. > >> > >> The one big theme was put to change the extension website. The website > >> quickly got re-implemented to the cousin Drupal site, on Templates. > >> > >> However there hasn't been a consensus if these is the Apache Theme to > >> establish a common branding and theme. > >> > > > > If this helps, note that we have this page which illustrates many of > > the CSS styles we use: > > > > http://www.openoffice.org/style-test.html > > > I think we could do much better on the way code is displayed. Here is a JS library that highlight the code and makes it look more appealing to developers: http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/ also we can use solarized themes: http://www.minh.io/tech/2013/06/23/highlightjs-vs-syntaxhighlighter/ > > and the same file rendered on our other website: > > > > http://openoffice.apache.org/style-test.html > > Thanks, key point of the email is if we will migrate the assets to the > extension theme including "www". > > > > > > I assume we'd want to approximate the same styles on the MWiki as > > well, Extensions and Templates as well. We currently have the minimal > > branding consistency, in the name and logo. But we don't have > > consistency in other aspects of the styling. > > > >> I am working on a patch for the current *main* website. Here is an early > >> screenshot of the site. http://imagebin.org/270485 > >> > >> I create a bug to get the css update on the site. > >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123231 > >> > >> However I think we need to have an actual decision to move with a common > >> theme first and which theme should be. > >> > > > > I like the idea of achieving consistency here. But in your screen > > shot, why does the logo have so much whitespace around it, a white > > block extending over the menu and almost touching the T in THE. We > > might try a a transparent background for the logo, but keeping the > > gulls pure white? > > This is the original logo from the website, I just used FF web tools > (inspect element) and insert the Extensions header background. The > original logo have those whitespaces (I would rather crop the image to > only the logo. > http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO4_website_logo.png > > > > > > -Rob > > > > > >> -- > >> Alexandro Colorado > >> Apache OpenOffice Contributor > >> http://www.openoffice.org > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > > > > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > Apache OpenOffice Contributor > http://www.openoffice.org > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org
