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

Daniel P. Berrange berrange at redhat.com
Tue Nov 8 16:44:46 UTC 2016


On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 04:11:05PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 01:50:33PM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
> > 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).
> > > 
> > > Two things I noticed that I can't really find what patch caused it, so
> > > I'll not them here.  The table in hvsupport.pl looks weird because it is
> > > so wide.  It would be OK if it were centered.
> > 
> > Ah, interesting. That is because I put "max-width: 60em" on the body
> > content. The table is clearly wider than that, and so spills over
> > the right hand margin. I'll add some custom css for the table to
> > fix that - basically will make it ignore the max-width, but keep
> > centered.
> > 
> > > the stuff in <pre> has line-height of 150% if it is in a <dl/> tag,
> > > which makes some pages with different <pre/> tags inconsistent.  Adding
> > > simple:
> > > pre { line-height: 100%; }
> > > ought to do, I guess.
> > 
> > Can you point me to a page showing the problem so I can better understand
> > it.
> > 
> 
> Sorry, I ended the paragraph in a rush with one hand while holding a
> child in the other one =)  If you look here:
> 
> https://berrange.fedorapeople.org/libvirt-new-website-v2/formatnetwork.html
> 
> The unindented (e.g. first two) blocks look normal, but the indented,
> because they are inside <dl/> (e.g. the next two at least) have more
> space in between the lines.  Inspecting that element in Firefox, it
> tells me that the property is inherited from <dl/> (so that you know how
> I got that info).  I have no preference in how it's fixed as long as
> it's consistent.

Hehe, that turns out to be a pre-existing bug, not my mistake :-)


Regards,
Daniel
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