cc'ing the marketing list, since we have some recent volunteers who said they had web design skills.
We have two websites for the project: 1) A public-facing website at http://www.openoffice.org 2) A project-facing website at http://openoffice.apache.org In practice the distinction is not always clear. There are many links that cross from one website to another. For example, a user starting at http://www.openoffice.org/ and clicking the "I want to Participate in OpenOffice" ends on on this project page here: http://openoffice.apache.org/get-involved.html. The websites have a similar look, but they differ in many small ways, and the cumulative effect of these differences is discordant (IMHO). To draw out the difference, I made two identical test pages that illustrate how the different style sheets treat common HTML constructs, and differences in page headers/footers: See: http://openoffice.apache.org/style-test.html and http://www.openoffice.org/style-test.html Note, for example, how our tagline differs between the pages. Also, the default font size on the openoffice.org is smaller than on openoffice.apache.org. IMHO this is too small for default text. There are other things that are common between the two sites, but perhaps are non-optimal, like: 1) We're really not distinguishing blockquotes well. We're just indenting. Maybe we can add a left-aligned vertical bar? 2) The yellow background of the <pre> block is a bit extreme. Maybe something more subtle? 3) The hierarchy of headers only deals with H1 and H2. I'm willing to help here, on integration of new stylesheets, getting stuff checked in, etc. But I have neither the taste nor the talent to design a good looking set of styles. Trust me, you do not want be to do design work. So I'm hoping that someone reading this can volunteer to take the lead in proposing a good, modern, professional set of styles that we can use across both websites. Thanks! -Rob
