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[jira] [Comment Edited] (SOLR-6058) Solr needs a new website
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Francis Lukesh edited comment on SOLR-6058 at 10/17/14 6:04 PM:
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In thinking through the impetus behind creating a new website, it became clear that it was a good time to put some effort behind the Solr identity system as well.
I certainly believe that the content of the website needs to be thoughtfully considered, but I felt that I could best contribute an identity system and templates such that the community could use them as a toolset and visual framework for building the new site.
Additionally, a new identity system will help me and other designers in the Solr community create cohesive graphics for other things as well, such as t-shirts, meetup resources, and the like.
I am hopeful that a beautiful new website and identity will help revitalize the outward-facing brand of Solr and help bolster its position in the market and the search community.
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Manifest:
# *Solr_Styleguide.pdf* - This is the primary general-use guide for the new identity system.
# *Solr_Icons.pdf* - This is an editable PDF of the vector source images for the new Solr icon set, and could serve as the main source file for the icon library.
# *SOLR-6058* - This is the diff of the website. It's a huge patchfile. It applies to the lucene TLP website ([http://lucene.apache.org/site-instructions.html]). Included in the diff are SVG exports of the icons that are used on the website, but can also be used anywhere else they make sense. (You can see a preview of this patch [here|http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr].)
# *Solr_Logo_on** - These are editable PDF (vector) and high-resolution PNG (raster) versions of the logo for use everywhere. If you're applying it to a white or light background, use _on_white. If you're applying to a dark background, use _on_black. The _on_orange variant is specifically intended for use on a field of the orange specified in the styleguide.
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A few notes:
# These files are Adobe Illustrator *editable* PDFs. This means that if you have a PDF viewer, you can view the assets, but they are preserved as editable documents as well, so that we don't need to maintain separate AI files.
# Getting the Apache CMS to build is not necessarily the most straightforward thing. If you'd like to, start [here|http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html] and [here|http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html]. These docs are a little out of date, and I'd like to say I'm going to submit a patch to them as well, but we'll see how this goes. If you'd just like to view the new site, I have the patch installed and running on my server here: [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr]
# There are a few major page types (not necessarily "templates" in the Apache CMS sense of the word, but more like boilerplate examples):
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/] - Clearly a homepage / landing page layout, with example of the "content bar" visuals going down the page.
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/news.html] - A basic content page. This is an example of how it can easily be used for the News section.
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/features.html] - This showcases some more layout options.
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/resources.html] - This showcases a 2nd-tier navigation bar that can anchor to the top of the page when a user scrolls down.
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/tutorials.html] - This is another way to create a secondary navigation bar. This also allows for very deep content.
was (Author: franlukesh):
In thinking through the impetus behind creating a new website, it became clear that it was a good time to put some effort behind the Solr identity system as well.
I certainly believe that the content of the website needs to be thoughtfully considered, but I felt that I could best contribute an identity system and templates such that the community could use them as a toolset and visual framework for building the new site.
Additionally, a new identity system will help me and other designers in the Solr community create cohesive graphics for other things as well, such as t-shirts, meetup resources, and the like.
I am hopeful that a beautiful new website and identity will help revitalize the outward-facing brand of Solr and help bolster its position in the market and the search community.
Manifest:
# *Solr_Styleguide.pdf* - This is the primary general-use guide for the new identity system.
# *Solr_Icons.pdf* - This is an editable PDF of the vector source images for the new Solr icon set, and could serve as the main source file for the icon library.
# *SOLR-6058* - This is the diff of the website. It's a huge patchfile. It applies to the lucene TLP website ([http://lucene.apache.org/site-instructions.html]). Included in the diff are SVG exports of the icons that are used on the website, but can also be used anywhere else they make sense. (You can see a preview of this patch [here|http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr].)
# *Solr_Logo_on** - These are editable PDF (vector) and high-resolution PNG (raster) versions of the logo for use everywhere. If you're applying it to a white or light background, use _on_white. If you're applying to a dark background, use _on_black. The _on_orange variant is specifically intended for use on a field of the orange specified in the styleguide.
A few notes:
# These files are Adobe Illustrator *editable* PDFs. This means that if you have a PDF viewer, you can view the assets, but they are preserved as editable documents as well, so that we don't need to maintain separate AI files.
# Getting the Apache CMS to build is not necessarily the most straightforward thing. If you'd like to, start [here|http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html] and [here|http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html]. These docs are a little out of date, and I'd like to say I'm going to submit a patch to them as well, but we'll see how this goes. If you'd just like to view the new site, I have the patch installed and running on my server here: [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr]
# There are a few major page types (not necessarily "templates" in the Apache CMS sense of the word, but more like boilerplate examples):
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/] - Clearly a homepage / landing page layout, with example of the "content bar" visuals going down the page.
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/news.html] - A basic content page. This is an example of how it can easily be used for the News section.
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/features.html] - This showcases some more layout options.
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/resources.html] - This showcases a 2nd-tier navigation bar that can anchor to the top of the page when a user scrolls down.
#* [http://lucene.lukesh.com/solr/tutorials.html] - This is another way to create a secondary navigation bar. This also allows for very deep content.
> Solr needs a new website
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> Key: SOLR-6058
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-6058
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Task
> Reporter: Grant Ingersoll
> Assignee: Grant Ingersoll
> Attachments: HTML.rar, SOLR-6058, Solr_Icons.pdf, Solr_Logo_on_black.pdf, Solr_Logo_on_black.png, Solr_Logo_on_orange.pdf, Solr_Logo_on_orange.png, Solr_Logo_on_white.pdf, Solr_Logo_on_white.png, Solr_Styleguide.pdf
>
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> Solr needs a new website: better organization of content, less verbose, more pleasing graphics, etc.
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