I set out to do a quick and dirty typography overhaul to make things
more consistent and a bit cleaner, but I kept running into things I
didn't like, so this lead me down something of a rabbit hole of design
tweaks to the OSM site.
Goals here are to have better content hierarchy, better vertical
rhythm, more consistent UI, cleaner markup with less tables, all while
keeping the basics pretty much intact. There are a lot of things I
didn't touch even though they need to be updated (lots of tables where
stuff shouldn't be tables, mostly).
Basic overview of changes:
I added a new persistent header that helps segment pages. It's now
a lot easier to know what you're looking at. The header has a page
title, a description, plus a submenu of actions.
There is now a pattern of 20px/10px margins and padding for more
rhythm and breathing room throughout the site.
I know there are other problems here or things I've missed - would
love another set of eyes to look over this! I am still getting comfortable
working on the site - it's my first time ever digging into a ruby or rails
so I'm not familiar with the templating language yet.
Make sure we always show the "all traces" and "your traces" links
in the same place and that they don't accidentally inherit parameter
values that we don't really want.
Based on work by Andrzej Zaborowski <balrog@zabor.org>.
Use a preinitializer to load the settings from application.yml so
that they are available as early as possible. All settings can also
be overridden using environment variables.
The ad-hoc settins in environment.rb are then moved to this new
system so we have one consistent location for settings.
dates and times on the web site.
Also try and improve formatting of message pages a but, and include the
image of the recipient when viewing a sent message.
* @title was never set on trace editing, and thus <h2></h2> was produced
* Changed split 'trace.view.viewing_trace' into 'trace.view.title' and 'trace.view.heading'
* Introduced corresponding 'trace.edit.title' and 'trace.edit.heading'
of these pages have been translated into other languages and users
using other languages would want to visit those in preference to the
English version.
