Re: [website-dev] When Does the Redesign Begin?
Ivan M <[email protected]>
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Hi Lars, On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 12:52 AM, Lars Nooden <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/13/2010 10:54 PM, Ivan M wrote: > >> We can be quite flexible with regard to where we start: if we made a >> general tempalte first (i.e., static HTML), > > Yes, that's about what I was thinking. If the template is fairly simple > and has a few elements by default. Standard or site-wide items, like > the navigation menu for a given project, or the footer for anything on > *.openoffice.org could be candidates for SSI. > >> it could easily be 'ported' and adapted across the various OO.o >> websites (wiki, planet, templates, extensions...). We could then roll >> out the new design across OO.o's various websites over a short period >> of time to ensure consistency. > > Having several stylesheets linked to in each template can help, some > will be short. One for Oracle, obviously. One for the *.openoffice.org > domain's current theme. One for the individual project. That's a really good point; we should endeavour to use a common CSS framework across all sites (which also implies a common HTML framework - in terms of layout). Right now, each site uses its own CSS adapted from the main website with different classes, etc. Creating a robust and reusable CSS framework would be one of the top priorities; it would serve as the base, and other websites could then build on it. > It's possible to set up a mockup elsewhere, but who could set up a vhost > to work in? At this stage I don't think we need to worry about that so much - we're only at the very early ideas stage. Mockups can come later, and even the early stage of discussing ideas will need to involve other projects (especially UX, branding and native-lang). To keep things moving, I have created a new wiki section in the website project where we can list ideas ... feel free to add your own. http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/2010_Redesign http://wiki.services.openoffice.org/wiki/Website/2010_Redesign/Ideas Regards, Ivan.