Creative Co-op have recently prepared some brand guidelines for
CoTech, including a new logo, typography suggestions and background
images. This commit restyles the site to apply, as best we can, these
guidelines. It's hard to split this into smaller commits because the
decision to use a black background colour means many things have to
change.
Notably we've removed the "about/join" footer, as it was hard to
choose a bg colour and without one it became more apparent that this
footer was more in the way than useful.
Co-authored-by: Natasha Natarajan <natasha@outlandish.com>
The site had around 7000 lines of CSS and 23,000 lines of JS. It also
used a framework called "Zurb" to build the layout. We're planning to
rebrand the website and to make that work easier I think it would help
me (and hopefully those that come after me) to strip out all of these
technologies and recreate the site with a simple stylesheet.
By doing so I think we lose a couple of features, such as the zooming hover
states on the grids of images. Some features, like the "sticky" header
are probably better implemented nowadays in pure CSS.
Given that the site is maintained by volunteers I think the simpler we
can make it the better.
As the map tab is created hidden by default, leaflet seems unable
to deal with the sizing properly initially, but we can hook into
the "tab changed" event, and tell leaflet to recalculate the size
after switching tabs
We don't have a process to ensure that emails to our internal list
(contact@coops.tech) are replied to in a timely manner/at all. At the
moment we appear to have 5 legitimate emails from the 13 March that
don't appear to have replies.
I hope that encouraging people to post to the forum will increase the
chance that they receive a reply.
I think there are further improvements we can make, by clarifying the
joining process for example, but this is a good enough start.
