+1 for what's been done so far, and for revamped site with 1.6.0 release. Rollout sub-menus might be nice. That nav bar is pretty busy.
-- Christopher L Tubbs II http://gravatar.com/ctubbsii On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 6:32 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> wrote: > Def needs a little more TLC, but using something like Bootstrap instead of > rolling our own is definitely the way to go. > > Would be happy to help out here -- maybe we can get a revamped site for > 1.6.0? That'd be pretty boss. > > > On 3/5/14, 5:40 PM, Bill Havanki wrote: >> >> Some folks in the IRC room were discussing how nice the Spark [1] and Hue >> [2] sites look compared to ours. While babysitting integration tests, I >> decided to prototype a rework of our site using Twitter Bootstrap [3], the >> front-end framework that both of those other sites use. >> >> Here are the pages that I converted. >> >> * http://people.apache.org/~bhavanki/accumulo-bootstrapped/ >> * >> >> http://people.apache.org/~bhavanki/accumulo-bootstrapped/notable_features.html >> * http://people.apache.org/~bhavanki/accumulo-bootstrapped/source.html >> >> You can navigate between those pages using the left nav menu, but try >> anywhere else and you'll jump out to the production site. >> >> The pages use Bootstrap's own theme, with only very slight modifications >> to >> be close to our own theme. (I actually disabled around 90% of >> accumulo.css.) I kept the page organization like production, although we >> have many other whizbang options with Bootstrap. Some bits I left messy, >> like the nav items for the user manuals, but you should get the idea >> anyway. >> >> Beyond just how it looks, Bootstrap gives you many other capabilities, >> especially responsive display for mobile and tablets, so there's benefit >> to >> a switch beyond just pretty looking boxes. >> >> [1] spark.apache.org >> [2] gethue.com >> [3] getbootstrap.com >> >
