On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 6:23 PM, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On 09/25/2012 03:47 PM, Dave Fisher wrote: > >> >> On Sep 25, 2012, at 3:26 PM, Alexandro Colorado wrote: >> >> Should we have a webdev list? >>> >> >> We discussed using the tags [WWW] last year. >> >> >>> In the past we did had dedicated list for each line of the project. >>> I am not sure this is something that should be discussed as the >>> work on redesign start growing. >>> >> >> Generally everything should be here. >> >> >>> Some suggestions on the design of the site: - Show the product, >>> currently there is nothing visual that relates the software with >>> office productivity. >>> >> >> Perhaps we should setup an area in ooo-site where we can have a >> design contest. Let me think about how to do that technically using >> the CMS. >> >> Kay - you should continue to with whatever efforts you have in mind >> with the main page. What I am thinking about is redesigning the >> headers and footers. >> > > oh -- OK > > I need to get back into more extensive learning with the CMS too. :/ > > > Right now, I have some recent mods in > > http://www.openoffice.org/test/ > > to deal with the horizontal scrolling and trying to put "constant" items > we have in the right side area into permanent areas in the left hand column. > > We can continue to use this area -- test. I would request that since I am > working on "index.html" which I hope to finish up and put into production > soon, that new designs be given some different name, along with alternative > names for the basic style sheets. > > [ In this regard, PLEASE HELP fix the styling on my links under the social > area. I can not get this line to "move over" to align with the one above > AND keep this coloring for the links. Desperately in need of a CSS guru! ] I think the fact that you are no longer using a <p> tag is what makes it loose the inherit style. You have <p></p><div ...>Twitter, Google+</div>. > > > >> - Responsive design, mobile browsers, tablets and devices can have >>> different dimensions on the site, having a RD conformant site >>> could help our users browse through the site. >>> >> > yes...another reason to make changes > > > >> Sure. I think the best strategy might be to use a common set of css >> tags in device specific css files that can then be varied according >> to the dimensions of the browser. >> > > That's one of the main reasons I wanted to do this. The two home page > columns are now laid out via percentages vs pixel widths. > > > >> - Corporate theme, ViewVC, cWiki, Forum(?), Bugzilla have their >>> own theme, should there be efforts to adopt the same design like >>> the templates/extension/wiki site. >>> >> >> The way the CMS works the templates used for the websites can be >> ported by the sysadmins and teams in the Forum and mWiki. cWiki is >> harder. I'm sure that SF can follow as well. >> >> - Website QA - Possible broken pages due to the change in >>> frameworks (from Oracle to Apache) on smaller projects. >>> >> >> Download the source, discuss any errors, make the changes - JFDI. >> >> Regards, Dave >> >> >> >>> On 9/25/12, Kay Schenk <kay.sch...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>>> 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 >>>> >>>> >>> >>> -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice >>> http://es.openoffice.org >>> >> >> > -- > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > MzK > > "Just 'cause you got the monkey off your back > doesn't mean the circus has left town." > -- George Carlin > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
