[Bf-docboard] Blender Manual CSS tests

Campbell Barton ideasman42 at gmail.com
Thu Mar 31 14:51:22 CEST 2016


If time is spent here, would rather we have something like Python's main page.
Descriptive main sections and a break from having long vertical list all over.

https://docs.python.org/3/

Though current homepage seems OK and wasn't pushing for these changes.

On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 7:29 PM, Ton Roosendaal <ton at blender.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I agree with Doeke. Here's a typical case of 'style over substance', where a simple to  navigate list gets redesigned into a puzzle.
>
> If we had 100s of links to navigate we could look at diagrams for design, but for 10 links I think we can do better (or keep the old).
>
> -Ton-
>
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>
>> On 31 Mar 2016, at 08:48, Doeke Wartena <doeke.wartena at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> if i compare the new one:
>> http://blender-manual.readthedocs.org/getting_started/
>>
>> to the old one:
>> https://www.blender.org/manual/getting_started/index.html
>>
>> then the old one is so much easier to navigate for the eye.
>> I think it would be a step backward to use the new changes.
>> For the rest I didnt notice much difference really.
>>
>> 2016-03-30 22:35 GMT+02:00 Aaron Carlisle <carlisle.b3d at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> Recently Tobias Heinke has been doing some edits to the Manual's CSS script
>>> to give it more of a visual appeal.
>>> I have set up a live version on the Read the Docs site [1] to get feedback
>>> and testing.
>>> The biggest change right know are how index pages look. Again, feedback and
>>> testing would be appreciated.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Aaron
>>>
>>>
>>> 1. http://blender-manual.readthedocs.org/contents/
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