Re: [Savannah-hackers-public] Modifying Savannah website

[Sylvain Beucler]

Zeus and I applied some of the changes, in particular more links are
underlined.

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Sylvain

On Mon, May 25, 2009 at 07:13:18PM -0500, Karl Berry wrote:
>     karl> for me, the brown color for
>     > links used on savannah is quite hard to distinguish from normal text.
>     > (My vision is not the best.)  If we let people have their own normal
>     > link color, they would stand out a lot more.
> 
>     beuc> This one is here:
>     
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/savane-cleanup.git/tree/frontend/php/css/Savannah.css
> 
> Thanks.  I have two changes to propose, though it's all certainly open
> to debate and personal choices.  FWIW, I played around with this by
> saving "web page - complete" in a browser on the texinfo project page
> and the home page, then changing the Savannah.css in the resulting
> *_files subdir.
> 
> 
> 1) This change switches to plain old blue for links.  If that seems too
>    drastic, the commented-out hex color is a less-vibrant blue that
>    might suit.
>  
> -a { text-decoration: none; color: #641212;}
> +a { text-decoration: none; color: #0000ff;}  /* #0022aa */
>  a:hover { text-decoration: underline; color: #c40f0f; }
> 
>    Another change that would help, and more or less obviate the need for
>    a color change, is if the underlines were kept in the main text, and
>    text decoration was only turned off in the navbar.  I didn't see an
>    easy way to do that.
>    
>    For that matter, there could be underlines in the navbar too as far
>    as I'm concerned (just remove text-decoration: none), but I suspect
>    that there would be no consensus for that.
> 
> 
> 2) I noticed in the css that #333333 is apparently used for the body
>    text, which is, I guess, kind of a dark gray.  Personally my eyes
>    like just plain black better.
>    
> 
> Wdyt?
> 
> 
> --- /u/karl/tmp/ORIG/Savannah.css     2009-05-24 17:53:04.000000000 -0700
> +++ /u/karl/tmp/Savannah.css  2009-05-25 17:08:52.000000000 -0700
> @@ -42,3 +42,3 @@
>    font-family: arial,helvetica;
> -  color: #333333;
> +  color: black;
>  /*  background-color: #ffe4b7; */
> @@ -61,3 +61,3 @@
>  .footer {
> - color: #333333;
> + color: black;
>  /*  background-color: #CCBB88; */
> @@ -100,3 +100,3 @@
>       border-bottom: thin dotted #e0c080;
> -     color: #333333;
> +     color: black;
>  }
> @@ -116,5 +116,5 @@
>       background-color: #ffffff; 
> -/*   border-bottom: thin solid #333333;  */
> -/*   border-top: thin solid #333333;   */
> -/*   border-right: thin solid #333333; */
> +/*   border-bottom: thin solid black;  */
> +/*   border-top: thin solid black;   */
> +/*   border-right: thin solid black; */
>       padding-top: 10px;
> @@ -188,3 +188,3 @@
>       text-align: left;
> -     color: #333333;
> +     color: black;
>       border-bottom: thin dotted #e0c080;
> @@ -195,3 +195,3 @@
>       text-align: right;
> -     color: #333333;
> +     color: black;
>       border-bottom: thin dotted #e0c080;
> @@ -258,3 +258,3 @@
>       border-bottom: thin dotted #e0c080;
> -     color: #333333;
> +     color: black;
>       padding: 1%;
> @@ -267,3 +267,3 @@
>       border-bottom: thin dotted #e0c080;
> -     color: #333333;
> +     color: black;
>       padding: 1%;
> @@ -276,3 +276,3 @@
>       border-bottom: thin dotted #e0c080;
> -     color: #333333;
> +     color: black;
>  }
> @@ -282,3 +282,3 @@
>       border: thin dotted #e0c080;
> -     color: #333333;
> +     color: black;
>  }
> 
>