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Create style guidelines to help development be consistent with the look and feel of the WCA website
The WCA website has recently undergone a design overhaul, and is looking really good at the moment!
However, we don't yet have a consolidated, easy-to-reference set of style guidelines which developers can use when creating new pages or layouts. We would like somebody to build a Style Guidelines document for the WCA Software Team to reference.
The output: A document (markdown or Google Docs) which lays out the guidelines described above. You should use the WCA Homepage as your reference when putting it together.
Here are some questions to get you started:
- Fonts (family, size and colour) for different types of text (heading, subheading, normal text, link text)
- Colour palette with hexcodes. This should cover both page colours (menu bar, background colour, etc) and accent colours (the Rubik's cube colours on the splash image, colours of callout boxes at the bottom of the page)
- Link to the tiled background image on the homepage
Anyone with design experience / who has worked with a set of design guidelines before is welcome to make suggestions on improving this spec.
@gregorbg please advise:
- Whether this Issue relates to the transition away from PHP (it was in that section, but on the face of it this would seem to be a design/CSS-related change to me)
- Whether the guidelines received from the WCA board in that email you referenced can be publicly accessed anywhere (or if there is a design spec to refer to)
- This is loosely migrated to the migration away from PHP. It's technically unrelated but if we're porting over everything at once it wouldn't make sense to treat this separately.
- There are no public (or private, for that matter) design guidelines. We just try to mimick the WCA frontpage "by eye".
On a sidenote, this has largely been dealt with. The new statistics website used to look a whole lot different when I wrote the Strategy Paper one or two weeks ago. But we can still consider this issue as an opportunity to come up with style guidelines. It's simply not restricted to statistics specifically anymore.
Original post updated with a basic spec - its not my best work ever, but hopefully does enough to describe the issue for now.