On Fri, Dec 4, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Andrew Stitcher <[email protected]> wrote: > On Fri, 2009-12-04 at 00:09 -0500, Rajith Attapattu wrote: >> Hi >> >> One option for giving our website a facelift, is to have static html >> pages for content that rarely change and the rest to be generated via >> docbook. >> I had some free time in the evening and tried my hand at creating a >> prototype for our website. >> >> http://people.apache.org/~rajith/qpid/ >> > > Good work, I think the layout here is much better than the previous. > > I do agree with others though that the colour scheme isn't my ideal, > either - I actually prefer the previous simple white and navy colour > scheme (although you'd need a few more colours). In particular, the > browns you've currently used don't have a great contrast with the black > text. > > I've found that a good way to choose colours is to use the "agave" > program available for gnome - give it a go.
Based on the comments I received via the list and privately I am planning to do another iteration during the weekend. Hopefully the next one appeals to the majority color wise :) Blue/White seems to be the overwhelming choice for primary colors. I will experiment with agave/and other sources to see how I could select shades of the two primary colors mentioned above. >> If you guys like the approach taken, I am happy to attach it to a JIRA >> and submit it. >> Subsequently we could put it in svn under a folder called site. >> After that I could slowly add the rest of the static pages as time permits. >> If there is interest I could try to get it completed before our >> upcoming release. > > One thing we'd need to decide is what we do with the wiki contents - > currently someone -it looks like Carl - runs an hourly job the > copies/exports the wiki contents to the website. The static pages are only for contents that rarely change. The remaining will be generated via doc-book. The source for both the static pages and documentation will be under svn. As for proposals/writeups and other content thats best handled by the wiki will be left there. > Andrew > > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation > Project: http://qpid.apache.org > Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected] > > -- Regards, Rajith Attapattu Red Hat http://rajith.2rlabs.com/ --------------------------------------------------------------------- Apache Qpid - AMQP Messaging Implementation Project: http://qpid.apache.org Use/Interact: mailto:[email protected]
