On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 02:48:07PM +0100, Martin Kletzander wrote:
On Tue, Nov 08, 2016 at 11:50:11AM +0000, Daniel P. Berrange wrote:
>The current libvirt website design dates from 2008 and
>has not changed significantly since. Compared to
>contemporary open source project websites it looks
>pretty dated and cluttered.
>
>This series incrementally changes the website to have
>a completely new layout and branding.
>
>Since the original adobe illustrator files are long
>since lost, this series introduces a newly created
>variant of the libvirt logo with Inkscape as an SVG
>file.
>
>The libvirt logo used a specific font with angled tops
>to letters like "l", "b" and "t" - this is the
"Overpass"
>font, made available by Red Hat under an open source
>font license. The re-branding makes use of webfont
>support so that we can use this font across the entire
>libvirt website for a consistent look.
>
>The colors of the website CSS now exactly match the
>colors used in the logo in most places.
>
>The bigger change is in the layout, with the huge
>left hand sitemap nav bar being removed to give more
>space to the main content. The front page now directly
>links to the key pages that were shown to be highly
>visited in the apache web logs. Most of the rest of
>the links are now available from the "docs.html" page
>linked from "Learn" in the top nav bar.
>
>Another key change is that the download page now
>covers all language bindings, test suites, docs
>released by the project, not merely the core C
>library.
>
>Finally a new page "contribute.html" is added as the
>source of information useful to people wishing to get
>involved in the libvirt project.
>
>View the new site here
>
> v2:
https://berrange.fedorapeople.org/libvirt-new-website-v2/
> v1:
https://berrange.fedorapeople.org/libvirt-new-website/
>
ACK from me, though you might want for outhers to check how it looks for
them (e.g. Peter).
ACK from me too. I like the new design, nice job!
I have one followup question, are you planning to change the design of our
wiki as well?
Pavel