Refactor of appearance/customization docs

What does this MR do?

The documentation concerning customization of the appearance of self-hosted GitLab instances is out of date, and not located properly within the docs.

This moves almost everything from /customization to /user/admin_area, and combines them all into one simple page, along with updated screenshots and descriptions, and any missing information.

Only one of the redirected docs had comments, so they are being redirected via the disqus_identifier frontmatter.

More details

Old	New
customization/branded_login_page.md	Moved to /user/admin_area/appearance.md#sign-in--sign-up-pages
customization/branded_page_and_email_header.md	Moved to /user/admin_area/appearance.md#navigation-bar
customization/favicon.md	Moved to /user/admin_area/appearance.md#favicon
customization/help_message.md	Moved to /user/admin_area/settings/help_page.md (special case)
customization/index.md	Moved to /user/admin_area/appearance.md
customization/libravatar.md	Moved to /administration/libravatar.md (special case)
customization/new_project_page.md	Moved to /user/admin_area/appearance.md#new-project-pages
customization/system_header_and_footer_messages.md	Moved to /user/admin_area/appearance.md#system-header-and-footer-messages

Special Cases:

• Libravatar is not an admin_area setting, but was listed in customization. I moved it to /administration, but left the content 100% untouched.
• customization/help_message.md is not an admin_area appearance setting. It is in admin_area/settings/preferences, so I moved it to /user/admin_area/settings/help_page.md, and updated it as well since it was completely missing an option, and the screenshots were woefully out of date.

Related issues

Resolves #31189 (closed)

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@rdickenson I did the first phase of this, moving everything into user/admin-area/appearance.md, where it should be IMHO. Not sure what to do about doc/customization/index.md just yet, and the two links there:

- [Customize the `/help` and login page messages](help_message.md)
- [Use the Libravatar service with GitLab](libravatar.md)

I left the page there for now, and updated all the links to the new locations, but I'm open to just redirecting the whole page to the new one, but we need to find a suitable place for those two remaining links, which are not admin_area/appearance settings.

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@marcel.amirault - This is definitely an improvement, so thank you. I like your idea of redirecting the whole page to the new page.

I understand the issue with the other two links.

• For Customize the /help and login page messages, could we move that to an Admin Area > Settings > Preferences page?
• For Use the Libravatar service with GitLab, I'm not sure just where we could move that.

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Note to self: Will need to raise a secondary issue to update links to all moved docs.

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@marcel.amirault - I did a local test build of the docs site, and confirmed the changes were OK. MR accepted. Thanks.

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