[Systems] wiki design

[Bernie Innocenti]

On Wed, 2010-03-10 at 20:04 -0500, Frederick Grose wrote:


>         I'd like to split the following into two unordered lists with
>         separate classes.
>               * Home 
>               * Wiki
>               * Blog 
>               * Lists 
>               * Bugs 
>               * Git 
>               * Schools 
>               * Activities
>               * Download 
>               * People 
>               * Donate 
>         Any help would be appreciated.

BTW, it would be cool if someone could visually unify the look of our
linkbar across the main services.

We have a lot of choice of different styles:

 http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/
 http://people.sugarlabs.org/
 http://download.sugarlabs.org/
 http://bugs.sugarlabs.org/
 http://activities.sugarlabs.org/
 http://www.sugarlabs.org/
 http://git.sugarlabs.org/
 http://planet.sugarlabs.org/
 http://translate.sugarlabs.org/
 http://buildbot.sugarlabs.org/
 http://lists.sugarlabs.org/ (missing the linkbar)
 http://api.sugarlabs.org/ (missing the linkbar)
 (forgot anything?)


I'd like our linkbar to be:

 (1) consistent in style across all webapps (maybe also in content)
 (2) reminiscent of Sugar's UI elements or colors
 (3) in harmony with the look of all our sites
 (4) maybe well detached from the rest of the page (like the gnome one)
 (5) written in very tidy html + css for easily maintainability
 (6) free of frames/iframes, marquees and non-standard html crap
 (7) perfectly readable in text-only browsers, even without css
 (8) ordered the same way across all sites (= easy to memorize)
 (9) wrapping nicely on small screens

These are just my personal wishes, not strict requirements. Since Josh
did such an amazing job with aslo's styling, I'd be tempted to give him
full autonomy on taking care for our appearance everywhere else.

I did  download.sugarlabs.org imitating Google's linkbar. Then I tried
something fancier for people.sugarlabs.org. I like the idea, but not the
look of my own implementation. Luke told me that he fancied the Gnome
linkbar, which is identical to our buildbot's linkbar. Also fine with
me.

Yes, there's really *plenty* of room for improvement and plenty of work
to do, but I'd start from the most visible things: aslo, wiki, planet,
git, bugs... the others can wait a bit longer... or maybe forever.

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