Refactoring Proposal: Use Css to make index.html more professional looking

Motivation

The index.html file located in a newly installed TWikiDistribution while certainly not critical, is none the less, often times the very first document a new TWiki user is exposed to. TWiki needs to look good as well as perform well for users. so lets style it up a bit!

Description

I propose that you use the attached version of the index.html file to replace the one currently being shipped with TWiki.

-- TravisBarker - 28 Apr 2005

Documentation

Examples

here

Implementation

simply replace the existing /twiki/index.html file with the attached version (add water and serve)

Discussion

Should we also UseCssInTWikiDocumentationDotHtml and UseCssInTWikiHistoryDotHtml

-- TravisBarker - 28 Apr 2005

checked into SVN r4142

-- WillNorris - 28 Apr 2005

While it is good to provide styling for index.html, the change of styles the user is confronted with is also not ideal. Could we have something based on pattern skin (at least fonts and colors), as this is default for the installation?

-- ArthurClemens - 28 Apr 2005

I'll work on that next, keep an eye on this topic for patches in days to follow.

-- TravisBarker - 29 Apr 2005

keep in mind, changes to style of index.html should also be applied to testenv which is somewhat more complicated to alter

-- TravisBarker - 29 Apr 2005

why are the headline fonts in pattern skin not antialiased?

-- TravisBarker - 29 Apr 2005

AFAIK, anti-aliasing is a function of the browser and/or OS, and nothing to do with CSS

-- WillNorris - 22 May 2005

testenv has the look and feel; I can't see anything else that needs doing on this, so I'm setting it ready for merge.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 07 Jun 2005