[libvirt] [PATCH 00/17] Redo website layout and branding

[Daniel P. Berrange]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2016 at 10:17:18AM +0100, Peter Krempa wrote:
> > The bigger change is in the layout, with the huge
> > left hand sitemap nav bar being removed to give more
> > space to the main content. The front page now directly
> > links to the key pages that were shown to be highly
> > visited in the apache web logs. Most of the rest of
> > the links are now available from the "docs.html" page
> > linked from "Learn" in the top nav bar.
> 
> I'm not a fan of this despite having monitors in portrait mode and thus
> finally having the whole width with content.
> 
> What bothers me is that for navigation you can't select a different
> section without opening the menu page (either by going back, or by
> clicking on the "learn".

FWIW, based on the web access stats, the number of clicks required
to access the most commonly pages is down with this new design.
For example, accessing domain XML page used to take 3 clicks in
the nav bar (Docs -> Format -> XML Format), but is now 1 click
from the index page. For the bulk of content that used to be under
the 'Docs' entry in the nav bar, the number of clicks is either
the same, or reduced.

What has increased is number of clicks if you want to switch back
and forth between domain XML & network XML & storage XML, but I
don't believe that is a common pattern. We could still optimize
that if desired though, but having each XML page have a menu of
links to other XML pages. I'm not seeing that as a key problem
though

> 
> On the other hand I (and my favorities completion in my browser)
> remember most of the pages I'm accessing, thus I'm not using the menu
> anyways usually.
> 
> > Another key change is that the download page now 
> > covers all language bindings, test suites, docs
> > released by the project, not merely the core C
> > library.
> > 
> > Finally a new page "contribute.html" is added as the
> > source of information useful to people wishing to get
> > involved in the libvirt project.
> > 
> > View the new site here
> > 
> > https://berrange.fedorapeople.org/libvirt-new-website/
> > 
> > Note that the front page includes a feed of 4 most
> > recent blog posts, however, if visiting over https://
> > this will be blocked by browsers. In firefox you
> > can tell it to allow http:// content temporarily
> > at which point the feed will appear. I'll be doing
> > a proper fix by getting a TLS cert for virt-tools.org
> > website setup.
> 
> In this new design all the XML snippets and other stuff enclosed in
> <code> in the source is not in a monospace font any more, which is
> terrible.

Yeah, that's clearly a mistake - it should have remained monospace
for sure.

Regards,
Daniel
-- 
|: http://berrange.com      -o-    http://www.flickr.com/photos/dberrange/ :|
|: http://libvirt.org              -o-             http://virt-manager.org :|
|: http://entangle-photo.org       -o-    http://search.cpan.org/~danberr/ :|