[OpenStack-docs] Design revisions and follow up

Anne Gentle anne at openstack.org
Mon Nov 17 16:52:47 UTC 2014


Hi Phil,

Can you give the Operating System and Firefox version where you can't see
the icons?

Thanks,
Anne

On Mon, Nov 17, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Phil Hopkins <phil.hopkins at rackspace.com>
wrote:

>  I like the design, however on my system using Firefox the little icons
> don't show. They work on Chrome. Secondly on the training page the black
> background make the text difficult to read. Otherwise it is great.
>
>
> Phil Hopkins RHCA CMDBA
> Openstack Instructor
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>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Anne Gentle [anne at openstack.org]
> *Sent:* Friday, November 14, 2014 1:49 PM
> *To:* openstack-docs at lists.openstack.org
> *Subject:* [OpenStack-docs] Design revisions and follow up
>
>   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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