On 9/10/13, Rob Weir <robw...@apache.org> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> wrote: >> There has been a lot of discussion on the way the website is being used, >> many users don't have the knowledge from the original theme of OOo. When >> oracle came in, it broke the common theme across different websites, >> using >> the one we currently use. >> >> Regardless of the quality of the design, many sites had old designs >> except >> for the main site. >> >> As Apache came in, there has been very little design efforts on the >> website. >> >> The one big theme was put to change the extension website. The website >> quickly got re-implemented to the cousin Drupal site, on Templates. >> >> However there hasn't been a consensus if these is the Apache Theme to >> establish a common branding and theme. >> > > If this helps, note that we have this page which illustrates many of > the CSS styles we use: > > http://www.openoffice.org/style-test.html > > and the same file rendered on our other website: > > http://openoffice.apache.org/style-test.html
Thanks, key point of the email is if we will migrate the assets to the extension theme including "www". > > I assume we'd want to approximate the same styles on the MWiki as > well, Extensions and Templates as well. We currently have the minimal > branding consistency, in the name and logo. But we don't have > consistency in other aspects of the styling. > >> I am working on a patch for the current *main* website. Here is an early >> screenshot of the site. http://imagebin.org/270485 >> >> I create a bug to get the css update on the site. >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123231 >> >> However I think we need to have an actual decision to move with a common >> theme first and which theme should be. >> > > I like the idea of achieving consistency here. But in your screen > shot, why does the logo have so much whitespace around it, a white > block extending over the menu and almost touching the T in THE. We > might try a a transparent background for the logo, but keeping the > gulls pure white? This is the original logo from the website, I just used FF web tools (inspect element) and insert the Extensions header background. The original logo have those whitespaces (I would rather crop the image to only the logo. http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO4_website_logo.png > > -Rob > > >> -- >> Alexandro Colorado >> Apache OpenOffice Contributor >> http://www.openoffice.org > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org > > -- Alexandro Colorado Apache OpenOffice Contributor http://www.openoffice.org --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
