reworking our themes

[Dougie Richardson]

Hi Matthew,

Its very nice and I rather like it. 

The use of the brown links is not as clear as it would have been to have used the red - its much clearer in differentiating links from text and would be consistant with both "start" and "www" sites. Also, I haven't looked at the CSS (I'm at work) but how are we specifying the font size - is it relative or absolute? All three sites are different and that is a little less clear to read (although obviously in Firefox you can scale but not all new users will know that).

Cheers,

I have as much authority as the Pope. I just don’t have as many people who believe it.

(George Carlin)



----- Original Message ----
From: Matthew East <mdke at ubuntu.com>
To: Ubuntu Doc <ubuntu-doc at lists.ubuntu.com>
Sent: Friday, 8 August, 2008 8:05:40 AM
Subject: reworking our themes

Hi,

I'm hoping that by the release of intrepid we can manage to update our
theme a bit for help.ubuntu.com, including the wiki.

I've made a start on the theming for the "official" documents by
tweaking the xsl and css in our repository, and have come up with this
- http://doc.ubuntu.com/~mdke/test/serverguide/C/index.html

Any comments? It uses the theme from http://start.ubuntu.com/8.04 - I
don't know whether those colours are intended to be hardy specific, or
whether they will change for the release of intrepid, so I'm copying
in Matthew Nuzum as well for his comments. The alternative is to use a
theme closer to that on http://www.ubuntu.com, although personally I
have to say that I prefer the start.ubuntu.com theme.

The "todo" items are to add the word "documentation" to the header
logo, and to figure out how to arrange the tabs currently in use on
help.ubuntu.com (or maybe abandon them for a different method/style of
site navigation.

If people think it's worthwhile updating the themes for
help.ubuntu.com, we can also make a start on upgrading the theme for
the wiki to something similar.

-- 
Matthew East
http://www.mdke.org
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