Re: Updating the logging services web site

Have you tried using a different skin? I'm using Fluido on Log4j2. I have no idea if that will help, but it may show you how to create your own that does what you want.

Ralph

On Feb 27, 2012, at 1:16 AM, Ivan Habunek <[email protected]> wrote:

> I will rant a bit now. Apologies in advance.
> 
> The Maven site-plugin (or whatever sub-component is responsible for
> the xdoc conversion) is making it almost impossible to create any site
> layout except the one they envisioned. Several examples when
> converting xdoc to html:
> * Any header element (h1,h2,...) will be encased in a <div
> class="section">. This breaks the layout for my web example, amongst
> other things.
> * Replaces <strong> with <b>,  <em> with <i> and <code> with <tt>. Why?
> * Always puts class="bodyTable" to all <table>s. Annoying, not too harmful.
> * Replaces <pre class="prettyprint">...</pre> with <div
> class="prettyprint><pre>...</pre></div>. This breaks the
> prettyprint-ing of code.
> * Xdoc doesn't support HTML entities such as &nbsp; (again, annoying
> but not unsolvable)
> 
> Apart from that, the apt format is almost unusable with any styling
> except the default. The main problem is that you can't assign classes
> to html elements. In other words, tables can't be formatted (requires
> the "table" class on <table>), code can't be pretty-printed (requires
> "prettyprint" class on <pre>), etc.
> 
> So I use liberal amounts of Javascript to fix these things, which is
> not optimal. The log4php pages pretty bad when using noscript.
> 
> </rant>
> 
> I considered just using plain HTML for the logging site, and avoid the
> site-plugin. But this would be a pain if the number of pages ever
> grows to more than 2-3.
> 
> Do you guys know of any alternatives for generating the web?
> 
> Regards,
> Ivan
> 
> 
> On 27 February 2012 03:56, Ron Grabowski <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I like it!
>> 
>> ________________________________
>> From: Ivan Habunek <[email protected]>
>> To: Logging General <[email protected]>
>> Sent: Sunday, February 26, 2012 4:05 PM
>> Subject: Updating the logging services web site
>> 
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I would like to take some time to make the front page of the logging
>> service project a bit more user friendly, informative and nicer
>> looking.
>> 
>> The main function of this page is to direct the user to each of the
>> logging projects. I have made a quick mockup of the general design I
>> had in mind (again using Bootstrap since I'm not a graphic designer).
>> There are only 3 pages so far, the main page, charter and team list.
>> You can see them here (charter & team pages are in the "about"
>> dropdown menu in the top bar):
>> http://people.apache.org/~ihabunek/logging/
>> 
>> I would like to gather everybody's opinion of what else should be
>> included on the front page.
>> 
>> In the new layout, I have dropped the logging services logo in favour
>> of the apache feather logo. They are quite similar, and, to my eyes,
>> the plain feather logo just looks nicer and cleaner.
>> 
>> IMO, the log4j companions may be better suited on the log4j site so I
>> have not included them on the front page for now.
>> 
>> So far, I gather that we need at least:
>> - a short description of the logging services project to put in the
>> big box on the front page
>> - perhaps a longer description of the project (an 'about' page)
>> - a short description of each sub project to put on the front page
>> 
>> Also we should determine if any other content should be moved from the
>> current site. I have located several orphan pages which exist, but are
>> not linked to anywhere:
>> http://logging.apache.org/charter.html (migrated)
>> http://logging.apache.org/catalog.html
>> http://logging.apache.org/guidelines.html
>> 
>> Please let me know what you think.
>> 
>> Best regards,
>> Ivan
>> 
>>