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

Pavel Hrdina phrdina at redhat.com
Tue Nov 8 14:18:31 UTC 2016


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?

Pavel
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