[OpenStack-docs] Design revisions and follow up

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Tue Nov 18 23:22:39 UTC 2014


On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 4:33 PM, Angelo Matarazzo <matarazzoangelo at gmail.com
> wrote:

> Hi Anne,
> I don't like the combination of colors of "important message" in
> http://openstack-homepage.bitballoon.com/docs/book#
> In my opinion the color of characters is too similar to background color.
> I hope to help.
> BR,
> Angelo
>

Thanks for pointing it out. The contrast has been increased in the latest
revision.

Also, the arrow icons now work on Fedora (Phil's browser).

Thanks,
Anne


>
> 2014-11-14 20:49 GMT+01:00 Anne Gentle <anne at openstack.org>:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I wanted to let you know our Foundation web designer Wes has completed
>> the next round of revisions for the designs based on our input from this
>> week's Doc team meeting. Here are his responses to my emailed requests,
>> probably easiest if I just copy and paste them here. I especially
>> appreciate the less-footer-like base now.
>>
>> Please take a look by early next week and let me know if you have any
>> concerns, otherwise I'm ready to call this the design we're going with.
>> I'll work with the web devs/designers on a plan to convert to RST/Sphinx.
>>
>> Main page - http://openstack-homepage.bitballoon.com/docs
>> Book view - http://openstack-homepage.bitballoon.com/docs/book
>> Search results - http://openstack-homepage.bitballoon.com/docs/search
>> Language landing page (new):
>> http://openstack-homepage.bitballoon.com/docs/ja
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Anne
>>
>> […] *directional but we didn't see it. - Same as above, increased the
>> size of the icons.*
>> […] Could it be bumped even larger? Was the question asked. :)
>> - bumped it up a little bit more. If this still isn’t clear, I can use
>> some different icons. I’d rather not go any larger than this, because of
>> the impact it has on the design. It might be an issue where the circle
>> outline makes the direction less obvious. It’s an easy switch, so let me
>> know. I also added a scroll function so the user will drop to the body of
>> the page when “View The Docs” is clicked.
>>
>> […] What happens I think on many Chrome/Mac users is they don't know to
>> scroll past it. They think they only click the button to get to content.
>> Not sure I have solutions but wanted to let you know. Maybe it's because
>> it's blue all the way across, like a footer?
>> Got it! I made some changes to this section so it looks more like body
>> content (and less like a footer.) Hopefully this helps.
>>
>> […] *needs to be larger - Increased the size of the font and converted
>> the size to em*
>> […] Even more increase please? :) Maybe we're all glasses-wearing nerds,
>> I dunno.
>> Increased it a bit more. I didn’t want to go overboard with the size,
>> especially since there is quite a bit of text but let me know if it needs
>> to go larger. This is also an easy fix, so keep the feedback coming.
>>
>> […] Noted: what will the landing page look like in another language?
>> I took a shot at creating the page in Japanese, using the content you
>> have on the current page. I’m certain there are holes since I’m a novice at
>> translations :) but it should give some idea to how it will look. Let me
>> know if this isn’t what you had in mind.
>> http://openstack-homepage.bitballoon.com/docs/ja
>>
>>
>>
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