reworking our themes

[Charles Davis]

On Fri, 2008-08-08 at 20:44 +0000, Dougie Richardson wrote:
> 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.
> 
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> Matthew East
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I agree with Dougie, it looks very nice and is a great start.
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