On Wed, Oct 19, 2011 at 3:01 AM, Simone Tripodi <[email protected]> wrote: > 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/)
http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ That page looks good and contains advice - something I can make use of at my company. Now we need to work out the peculiarities of the Maven site to why it doesn't look as good. >> 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 Consider my vote +0 :) >> 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... As noted above http://twitter.github.com/bootstrap/ looks good. The halo is not drawing my attention away like in on our version of the pages. I think because their text is black and ours are inside lists which makes the text grey. >> 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!!! I think I just googled http://www.google.com/search?q=website+design+heading+subheading And browsed to * http://www.high-forest.co.uk/web-page-headings.php (this page has indentation of headings and paragraphs - but so few sites I was looking at for examples do) * http://www.kerryr.net/webwriting/techniques_headings.htm * http://www.vanseodesign.com/web-design/headlines-subheadings/ * http://nichcy.org/dissemination/tools/webwriting/headings --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
