I wonder if it could be possible to have the topbar optional ? (tru a project property: site.enableTopBar ? ) Just to prevent redundancy.
2011/10/18 Simone Tripodi <[email protected]>: > 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] > > -- Olivier Lamy Talend : http://talend.com http://twitter.com/olamy | http://linkedin.com/in/olamy --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
