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Posted to dev@openoffice.apache.org by Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org> on 2013/09/10 20:12:51 UTC
Common theme for AOO web assets moving forward
There has been a lot of discussion on the way the website is being used,
many users don't have the knowledge from the original theme of OOo. When
oracle came in, it broke the common theme across different websites, using
the one we currently use.
Regardless of the quality of the design, many sites had old designs except
for the main site.
As Apache came in, there has been very little design efforts on the
website.
The one big theme was put to change the extension website. The website
quickly got re-implemented to the cousin Drupal site, on Templates.
However there hasn't been a consensus if these is the Apache Theme to
establish a common branding and theme.
I am working on a patch for the current *main* website. Here is an early
screenshot of the site. http://imagebin.org/270485
I create a bug to get the css update on the site.
https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123231
However I think we need to have an actual decision to move with a common
theme first and which theme should be.
--
Alexandro Colorado
Apache OpenOffice Contributor
http://www.openoffice.org
Re: Common theme for AOO web assets moving forward
Posted by Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org>.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 3:17 PM, Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org> wrote:
> On 9/10/13, Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org> wrote:
> > On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org>
> wrote:
> >> There has been a lot of discussion on the way the website is being used,
> >> many users don't have the knowledge from the original theme of OOo. When
> >> oracle came in, it broke the common theme across different websites,
> >> using
> >> the one we currently use.
> >>
> >> Regardless of the quality of the design, many sites had old designs
> >> except
> >> for the main site.
> >>
> >> As Apache came in, there has been very little design efforts on the
> >> website.
> >>
> >> The one big theme was put to change the extension website. The website
> >> quickly got re-implemented to the cousin Drupal site, on Templates.
> >>
> >> However there hasn't been a consensus if these is the Apache Theme to
> >> establish a common branding and theme.
> >>
> >
> > If this helps, note that we have this page which illustrates many of
> > the CSS styles we use:
> >
> > http://www.openoffice.org/style-test.html
> >
>
I think we could do much better on the way code is displayed. Here is a JS
library that highlight the code and makes it look more appealing to
developers:
http://code.google.com/p/syntaxhighlighter/
also we can use solarized themes:
http://www.minh.io/tech/2013/06/23/highlightjs-vs-syntaxhighlighter/
> > and the same file rendered on our other website:
> >
> > http://openoffice.apache.org/style-test.html
>
> Thanks, key point of the email is if we will migrate the assets to the
> extension theme including "www".
>
>
> >
> > I assume we'd want to approximate the same styles on the MWiki as
> > well, Extensions and Templates as well. We currently have the minimal
> > branding consistency, in the name and logo. But we don't have
> > consistency in other aspects of the styling.
> >
> >> I am working on a patch for the current *main* website. Here is an early
> >> screenshot of the site. http://imagebin.org/270485
> >>
> >> I create a bug to get the css update on the site.
> >> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123231
> >>
> >> However I think we need to have an actual decision to move with a common
> >> theme first and which theme should be.
> >>
> >
> > I like the idea of achieving consistency here. But in your screen
> > shot, why does the logo have so much whitespace around it, a white
> > block extending over the menu and almost touching the T in THE. We
> > might try a a transparent background for the logo, but keeping the
> > gulls pure white?
>
> This is the original logo from the website, I just used FF web tools
> (inspect element) and insert the Extensions header background. The
> original logo have those whitespaces (I would rather crop the image to
> only the logo.
> http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO4_website_logo.png
>
>
> >
> > -Rob
> >
> >
> >> --
> >> Alexandro Colorado
> >> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
> >> http://www.openoffice.org
> >
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> >
>
>
> --
> Alexandro Colorado
> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
> http://www.openoffice.org
>
--
Alexandro Colorado
Apache OpenOffice Contributor
http://www.openoffice.org
Re: Common theme for AOO web assets moving forward
Posted by Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org>.
On 9/10/13, Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org> wrote:
>> There has been a lot of discussion on the way the website is being used,
>> many users don't have the knowledge from the original theme of OOo. When
>> oracle came in, it broke the common theme across different websites,
>> using
>> the one we currently use.
>>
>> Regardless of the quality of the design, many sites had old designs
>> except
>> for the main site.
>>
>> As Apache came in, there has been very little design efforts on the
>> website.
>>
>> The one big theme was put to change the extension website. The website
>> quickly got re-implemented to the cousin Drupal site, on Templates.
>>
>> However there hasn't been a consensus if these is the Apache Theme to
>> establish a common branding and theme.
>>
>
> If this helps, note that we have this page which illustrates many of
> the CSS styles we use:
>
> http://www.openoffice.org/style-test.html
>
> and the same file rendered on our other website:
>
> http://openoffice.apache.org/style-test.html
Thanks, key point of the email is if we will migrate the assets to the
extension theme including "www".
>
> I assume we'd want to approximate the same styles on the MWiki as
> well, Extensions and Templates as well. We currently have the minimal
> branding consistency, in the name and logo. But we don't have
> consistency in other aspects of the styling.
>
>> I am working on a patch for the current *main* website. Here is an early
>> screenshot of the site. http://imagebin.org/270485
>>
>> I create a bug to get the css update on the site.
>> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123231
>>
>> However I think we need to have an actual decision to move with a common
>> theme first and which theme should be.
>>
>
> I like the idea of achieving consistency here. But in your screen
> shot, why does the logo have so much whitespace around it, a white
> block extending over the menu and almost touching the T in THE. We
> might try a a transparent background for the logo, but keeping the
> gulls pure white?
This is the original logo from the website, I just used FF web tools
(inspect element) and insert the Extensions header background. The
original logo have those whitespaces (I would rather crop the image to
only the logo.
http://www.openoffice.org/images/AOO_logos/AOO4_website_logo.png
>
> -Rob
>
>
>> --
>> Alexandro Colorado
>> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
>> http://www.openoffice.org
>
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>
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Re: Common theme for AOO web assets moving forward
Posted by Rob Weir <ro...@apache.org>.
On Tue, Sep 10, 2013 at 2:12 PM, Alexandro Colorado <jz...@oooes.org> wrote:
> There has been a lot of discussion on the way the website is being used,
> many users don't have the knowledge from the original theme of OOo. When
> oracle came in, it broke the common theme across different websites, using
> the one we currently use.
>
> Regardless of the quality of the design, many sites had old designs except
> for the main site.
>
> As Apache came in, there has been very little design efforts on the
> website.
>
> The one big theme was put to change the extension website. The website
> quickly got re-implemented to the cousin Drupal site, on Templates.
>
> However there hasn't been a consensus if these is the Apache Theme to
> establish a common branding and theme.
>
If this helps, note that we have this page which illustrates many of
the CSS styles we use:
http://www.openoffice.org/style-test.html
and the same file rendered on our other website:
http://openoffice.apache.org/style-test.html
I assume we'd want to approximate the same styles on the MWiki as
well, Extensions and Templates as well. We currently have the minimal
branding consistency, in the name and logo. But we don't have
consistency in other aspects of the styling.
> I am working on a patch for the current *main* website. Here is an early
> screenshot of the site. http://imagebin.org/270485
>
> I create a bug to get the css update on the site.
> https://issues.apache.org/ooo/show_bug.cgi?id=123231
>
> However I think we need to have an actual decision to move with a common
> theme first and which theme should be.
>
I like the idea of achieving consistency here. But in your screen
shot, why does the logo have so much whitespace around it, a white
block extending over the menu and almost touching the T in THE. We
might try a a transparent background for the logo, but keeping the
gulls pure white?
-Rob
> --
> Alexandro Colorado
> Apache OpenOffice Contributor
> http://www.openoffice.org
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