I also think typography goes a long way, having some great font on the page could really do a facelift without disrupting the CSS that much.
On 12/19/12, Alexandro Colorado <[email protected]> wrote: > Also been working with Jan to acomodate the mWiki theme, since the new > mediawiki come with a diferent CSS than the old Monobook theme. > > However this should be intune with the current www.openoffice.org style. > > Lets work together to make AOO site look in tune. > > On 12/19/12, Rob Weir <[email protected]> wrote: >> cc'ing the marketing list, since we have some recent volunteers who >> said they had web design skills. >> >> We have two websites for the project: >> >> 1) A public-facing website at http://www.openoffice.org >> >> 2) A project-facing website at http://openoffice.apache.org >> >> In practice the distinction is not always clear. There are many links >> that cross from one website to another. For example, a user starting >> at http://www.openoffice.org/ and clicking the "I want to Participate >> in OpenOffice" ends on on this project page here: >> http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html. >> >> The websites have a similar look, but they differ in many small ways, >> and the cumulative effect of these differences is discordant (IMHO). >> >> To draw out the difference, I made two identical test pages that >> illustrate how the different style sheets treat common HTML >> constructs, and differences in page headers/footers: >> >> See: >> >> http://openoffice.apache.org/style-test.html >> >> and >> >> http://www.openoffice.org/style-test.html >> >> Note, for example, how our tagline differs between the pages. Also, >> the default font size on the openoffice.org is smaller than on >> openoffice.apache.org. IMHO this is too small for default text. >> >> There are other things that are common between the two sites, but >> perhaps are non-optimal, like: >> >> 1) We're really not distinguishing blockquotes well. We're just >> indenting. Maybe we can add a left-aligned vertical bar? >> >> 2) The yellow background of the <pre> block is a bit extreme. Maybe >> something more subtle? >> >> 3) The hierarchy of headers only deals with H1 and H2. >> >> >> I'm willing to help here, on integration of new stylesheets, getting >> stuff checked in, etc. But I have neither the taste nor the talent to >> design a good looking set of styles. Trust me, you do not want be to >> do design work. So I'm hoping that someone reading this can volunteer >> to take the lead in proposing a good, modern, professional set of >> styles that we can use across both websites. >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Rob >> > > > -- > Alexandro Colorado > PPMC Apache OpenOffice > http://es.openoffice.org > -- Alexandro Colorado PPMC Apache OpenOffice http://es.openoffice.org
