Look of Fedora docs

Tammy Fox tfox at redhat.com
Wed Sep 29 18:18:02 UTC 2004


On Mon, 2004-09-27 at 11:30, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> On Wed, 2004-09-22 at 10:46, Tammy Fox wrote:
> > > 	quick mockups:
> > > 	http://www.gnome-ppp.org/fedora/docs/network-config-ethernet.html
> > > 	http://www.gnome-ppp.org/fedora/docs/network-config-ethernet-2.html
> > > 
> > > 	they're allmost the same :)
> > 
> > I like them. They have a nice, clean look to them. I prefer the logo on
> > the left, but that is just my opinion. The top blue headerseems a little
> > big. I would like to see it smaller. I would also prefer the Fedora
> > Project logo instead of the Fedora Core logo since we might get into
> > documenting software in Fedora Extras or Fedora Legacy.
> > 
> > On the Fedora website, we already have a header with a logo, so we would
> > want to use a slightly different css to not add the blue header to them.
> > 
> > Just to make sure, did you create the icons or borrow them from
> > somewhere else? If you borrowed them, we need to make sure they are
> > under the GPL. I would prefer to have ones made specifically for the
> > Fedora docs.
> > 
> > Also, it looks like you mocked up a page of the help that is included in
> > one of our configuration tools. Since those tools are shipped in both
> > Fedora and RHEL, we might want to do away with the Fedora logo in the
> > CSS for the config tools help inside the tool so the developer doesn't
> > have to make sure the right logo is included for whatever OS he is
> > building the package for.
> 
> I agree with Tammy with one change -- I would prefer to see the
> navigation icons (arrows) match the ones used in Bluecurve, instead of
> using a different set of arrows.
> 
> -- 
> Paul W. Frields, RHCE
> 

Sure. We could do that. It would definitely fit into the style of the
website. Garrett doesn't work at Red Hat anymore, but I have most of his
source files. The trick is finding the right ones and sizing them
properly. I'll add it to my list of things to do but as a low priority
because we have big news coming out about the magazine soon. ;-) Sorry I
can't share just yet...

Tammy




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