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

[Karl Berry]

    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;
 }