[libvirt] [PATCH 00/17] Redo website layout and branding

[Peter Krempa]

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.

[...]

> 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".

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.

Overall I don't disagree with this as long as the XML and code snippets
stay in a monospace font.

Peter

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