Hi Barrie! thanks for sharing your opinions, much more than appreciated! Please read my replies inline, you wrote a long email I could make confusion :) All the best, have a nice day! Simo
http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/ http://simonetripodi.livejournal.com/ http://twitter.com/simonetripodi http://www.99soft.org/ > Having larger fonts is making my reading experience better. > > I think in general it is an improvement. > > Here are some nitpicks (I'm no web site designer) - feel free to > nitpick them too. > I'm no web site designer too ;) that is why we started developing the new skin on top of Twitter's Bootstrap (twitter.github.com/bootstrap/) that allows developers playing the role of a designer :P Jokes a part, color palette, the style, etc etc are all the default one that comes from Bootstrap. Users can anyway declare the skin in the site.xml and declare the overrides/additional classes - as I did in the Maven site PoC - that is something users are already used to. > I'm not convinced about the drop down menus, I tend to visually ignore > them, but that may just be me. > Ivan is not convinced too, I think/hope is a matter of taste, Olivier, Christian and I like it, I proposed to keep it because is less work users should do to have it.. :P > On http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/maven/site/plugins/index.html > some links do not have the blue hyperlink underlining but instead have > a yellow halo. That is because in the APT page, table elements are declared as {{{/plugins/maven-clean-plugin/} <<<clean>>>}} That will be rendered as Monospaced, and that's the default Bootstrap's style. That could be easily modified by overriding the class as described before... > Looking around some more at > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/maven/site/download.html the > yellow halo appears to be the style of apt <<< Monospaced >>>> "and > must be rendered using a monospaced, typewriter-like font." > yes I understand, the reason is the one before, we can change anyway the font by overriding, that is something we already did > The halo is drawing my attention to these fields but they aren't > visually that important. Generally used for configuration values and > what you type etc. > default Bootstrap style... > Grey text makes me think of disabled text, and this is the style > applied to numbered lists. > The Installation Instructions section of > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/maven/site/download.html is a > good example of what I'm talking about. > Visually it looks like I should ignore the text (since its grey) with > large amounts of text I should pay attention too (because they are > haloed). again default Bootstrap style... > > One of my gripes with Confluence is its lack of indentation of > heading/subheadings (I've yet to look into whether I can fix that). > The old site http://maven.apache.org/what-is-maven.html does have > indentation even if the sub headings dont look that great. > Whereas the new version > http://people.apache.org/~simonetripodi/maven/site/what-is-maven.html > just has smaller heading styles. > Googling about web design seems to indicate to keep headings to two > levels so maybe this is just my problem again :) that sounds something we can add (I'll add as soon as I get home), can you point me to what you found on Google? Just a matter of filling the gap of my lack of design, thanks in advance!!! All the best, Simo > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] > For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
