On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:09 PM, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 23, 2012 at 1:14 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: > > With our graduation coming up soon, it might be time for us to consider a > > slight update to the user portal web site -- http://www.openoffice.org/-- > > for this momentous occasion. > > > > To this end, I've moved some entities to the "test" directory, and > updated > > robots.txt to not index this directory. > > > > I've wanted to fix some of the styling for a while to deal with > horizontal > > placement issues, but I'm sure some of you have some ideas as well. > > > > Maybe a wiki page would be a good idea as well to present graphic > mockups of > > ideas. > > > > Good topic to bring up. > > With graduation we'll have to think about changes to two websites. > www.openoffice.org, of course. But also our project website, which > will end up at openoffice.apache.org. The mailing lists will also > update, e.g., ooo-dev@i.a.o --> d...@openoffice.apache.org. Our > subversion tree changes as well. Ditto for Apache dist directory. > > So that leads to several sets of website changes: > > 1) Any rebranding we need/want to do, e.g. remove "incubator" > disclaimer and references. There was talk at one point about > refreshing the logo design at this time as well. > > 2) Updating URL's, email list address, SVN and dist directory > references. There may be others. This is pretty much a search & > replace operation. > > 3) Any work to "freshen" the website UI. IMHO it is always a good > time to improve the website ;-) > > > I wonder if it would be a good time to rethink the default font on the > website. Look at our plain text versus Mozilla's website, which uses > OpenSans (Apache 2.0 License): > > http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/features/ > > http://www.google.com/webfonts/specimen/Open+Sans > > To me this is much more legible than our current font (Liberation?) > I know we'll have quite a number of references to change after we graduate, and I thought we were planning on using the area where we have the Apache incubator icon for something else but I'd need to go look that up. re: fonts --- I'll need to investigate this. I didn't realize we had much of anything specified. hmmmm.... > Regards, > > -Rob > > > So...get your creative juices flowing and let's see what we can do. > > -- > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > MzK > > > > "Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back > > doesn't mean the circus has left town." > > -- George Carlin > -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- MzK "Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back doesn't mean the circus has left town." -- George Carlin
