[Bf-docboard] Corporate Identity & manual structure

[Tobias Heinke]

Hello doc team,

|> Blender branding: my resent patch

The aim is to communicate to the user that she's on a Blender side.
By Corporate Identity / Design. That means logo's and colors.

While colors can be changed by simply overwriting them.
The challenge is the "injection" of the logo:

The rules are: minimal invasive, CSS only, with fallback.
A fallback is always available, because the theme gets overwritten and 
not replaced.

The Loge could be added to every existing HTML element by the ::before 
selector
The image is drawn as a background.

So where to place an logo (thats visible on all pages):

The only place I see is before the "Blender Reference Manual"-header,
but theres already sits an *ugly home icon.
Witch only purpose it is to indicate to the user that the header is a 
clickable link.

(home)  (B. logo) "Blender Reference Manual"

Next I converted the header visually to a button and show (home) only on 
hover.

Demo time screenshots:
https://github.com/tobiasHeinke/demo

I've made 3 button versions:
3D, glass plain, light frame

Which one looks best? Or send me an link to an "inspiration" screenshots 
of a button.

|> Manual Structure or There lures a Monster in the Deep!

Diffrent approaches to CG are causing structural weaknesses in the manual:
While the technical (micro) approach is omnipresent (explain CG over the 
description of what every button does = tooltips)
The structure defined by technical (macro) colliding with the production 
pipeline structuring.

Technical view micro: interface
Technical view macro: editors

Editors, Data System (technical)
Model; Paint. & Sculp; Rig; Anima; Physics (production pipeline)
Render, Compositing (technical)

The problem arising: stumps (if missing - links to section), duplicates, 
separation.

     Stump: https://www.blender.org/manual/editors/index.html#settings 
[link: Preferences ]

     Dublication: Texturing is in 3 places: editors> UV, 3D paint, 
Rendering > (engine) > texturing

     Separation:
     object mode: 
https://www.blender.org/manual/editors/3dview/selecting.html
     edit mode: 
https://www.blender.org/manual/modeling/meshes/selecting/introduction.html

Solution:
1. Decide for one way (technical/ production pipeline /...)
2. Apply approach where it's strength lay.
3. ( ? )

yay no tldr;

Tobias