Website/Issues

Issues with the latest redesign

If your project's pages are not looking good, you may find that these fixes help you.

Redesign issue tracker

The most up to date design of the new home page can be seen at http://test.openoffice.org

Pages to create

(if you want to take on a certain issue, just write your name behind it, or say so on the dev@website mailinglist, discussion should also take place at this list)

• At the moment only a main page has been created, content still needs to be developed for the other pages, in answer to all 5 action statements. Additionally, some new tabs have been introduced that also need a new landing page. See Content.
• We need a feed parser for the new 'News' page (there will no longer be news featuring on the main page, e.g. like http://marketing.openoffice.org/planet/

Issues with the new homepage (CSS/HTML)

Please add any HTML/CSS issues you discover with the new homepage to this list.

Internet Explorer 6 Issues

• The footer does not automatically move to the bottom of the page. This can be fixed easily, but requires hacks - currently everything below the footer's 130px designated space is white.
• The tabs (Search, Change Language, Log In) have 100% width and display badly (screenshot). This will either require hacks or an alternate JS solution if IE6 support is desired.

Main page

• Enrich the current proposal with icons:
  • Using Galaxy Icons (the standard icons in OOo v3) Proposed by André
  • Proposal by Ivan
  • Proposal by Randy
• Make the marketing block more flexible (so it can feature longer text as well)
  • The frame flipped so the gull is on the right looks odd to me. I will try some different gull images. -Randy
• Current wording doesn't mention that OOo is free (Updated - title tag reads "OpenOffice.org - The free, open source productivity suite" and changed the Download action statement sub-text to mention that it's free -Ivan)

Implementation

• We do not have a staging server, so we need to carefully introduce each element step by step
  • inst.css and tigris.css needs to be cleaned up (at least removal of !important declarations)
  • The new header needs new div blocks which need to be introduced (proposal, make them online soon, as 'display:none' blocks

Issues related to the current website

Unresolved issues for the main website