Hello Klaus After some more thought I have a couple more comments on the design.
At the moment, the template used for user guides has coloured headings 1,2 and 3. These do stand out very well on the page and are reasonable easy to locate on a page. Using coloured headers and footers could reduce the visibility of headings, especially if a heading appears at the top of the page just below the header. Some of the colours proposed for the different user guides could clash horribly with the green used for the headings at the moment. To match the colour used for headings with the colour used for headers and footers is not recommended because some of the colours proposed would not stand out on a page and would probably make the page design look very amateurish. Also it would mean having a different template for each user guide if the heading colour is going to be different in each user guide. Using each module logo in the header is a good idea because it would not be detracting from the info on the page, but no colour in the header or footer. Again this idea means different templates for each user guide to accommodate the different icons. Template management then becomes a problem if there are any universal changes required in templates. I think using the LibreOffice logo in all the user guides is the simplest and easiest to maintain when any changes are made to templates. It would also put LibreOffice branding on every page of a user guide. The front and rear covers of each user guide should show the logo (icon) for that LO module. Having a distinct design for LibreOffice is a good idea and would look professional, but catchy design is not so good an idea as it could make the user guides look amateurish. >From my own experience in technical publications, users, especially >inexperienced ones, like simple and clean designs because they are easy to use >and refer to. I have seen too many user guides that look good until you try to >use them. Also, too many user guides and computer books I have come across >have had such a busy page design that it made the books difficult to read. The cover designs and the chapter title page designs look good. It is the page design that I would like to be as simple as possible. Hope my comments help. Regards PeterS Peter Schofield psaut...@gmail.com On 27 Jan 2013, at 15:17, klaus-jürgen weghorn ol wrote: > Hi Peter, > Am 27.01.2013 09:51, schrieb Peter Schofield: >> Hello >> >> I have had a look at the designs, but would like to raise one point. > > The designs are only first proposals for discussing. So I appreciate your > comments. > >> Are the designs going to be used in all types of LO user guides or are >> they only going to be used for the printed user guides that users >> can purchase? > > My intentions were: > to make a unique footer with a graphical sign to show of which module we talk > on this page. First I thought about taking the special logo. But this would > maybe divert from the text in the footer. > The header was following the cover design. When the header will be changed > because of the new branding [1], the header can/should be changed in the same > way. > > [1] http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/design/msg05257.html > > There can be some more variations for the header: > white background, simple LibO-logo, logo of module or only a colored > rectangle. > We can leave the header completely and only have the colored footer (and - of > course - we can let it be as it is). > > We can play with the footer to show the informations in a different way. > >> What concerns me is the design for the pages inside a user guide >> - the headers and footers. > > The design at the moment would use too much ink or toner >> if a user printed their ownuser guides they have downloaded. > > I don't know, but do you think that someone who is printing 360 pages (GS > guide) would think about ink or toner? > > > Also, in my opinion, coloured headers and footers will be overpowering > > if used on every page. >> Plain header and footers make a page more >> user eye friendly. > > For this it was only a proposal for talking and finding a catchy design. > > Thanks for your feedback and I hope of more opinions and comments. > > -- > Grüße > k-j > > -- > Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org > Problems? > http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette > List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted > -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to documentation+h...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/documentation/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
