Re: Web page and new logo

[John W. Eaton]

On  5-Feb-2011, Søren Hauberg wrote:

| lør, 05 02 2011 kl. 10:34 -0500, skrev John W. Eaton:
| > On  5-Feb-2011, Søren Hauberg wrote:
| > 
| > | Hi All
| > | 
| > | I'm not sure what the plans are wrt. the web page and our new logo. As a
| > | minimal update I would suggest the attached changes, which simply
| > | 
| > |   * puts the logo next to the current page header
| > |   * highlights the currently selected page in the navigation bar in
| > | orange (the colour appearing in the logo).
| > | 
| > | This is not a perfect change, but I think the least we could do is show
| > | off our new logo :-)
| > 
| > I like the change adding the logo, but I find the blue text on the
| > orange background hard to read.  Maybe it would help if the orange was
| > not quite as bright?
| 
| In my browser, the text on the orange background is black (not blue),
| but I get your point about readability. I picked the orange colour
| simply by copying the one used in the logo, so I'm not sure if we should
| change the colour. Two options could be
| 
|   * just keep the grey colour that is currently used, or
|   * make the font bold, by adding
| 
|      font-weight: bold;
| 
|     to 'div#nav div#currentnav' in octave.css.

I added the logo to the header and made some other changes to the
navigation bar and colors.  There's still a lot we could improve on,
but I think it looks a little better now.

jwe