[liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Static website for liblouis
- From: Keith Creasy <kcreasy@xxxxxxx>
- To: "liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <liblouis-liblouisxml@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 7 Oct 2013 12:54:19 +0000
Michael and all.
The idea of having an easier way to post daily builds is attractive. That's one
thing I've been thinking about, a better way to keep the release, beta, and
development downloads up to date. My thinking is that we should give people the
option of downloading a stable release, a public beta, or if they are really
adventurous the current development build.
My reason for taking the site management on was that it was desperately in need
of some cleaning up and updating, it isn't that I really want to do it all. :)
I also have no preference regarding where it is hosted. It is just important
that it is accessible and kept up to date. It is also important that it be
visually appealing and free of writing errors.
Thanks.
Keith
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Subject: [liblouis-liblouisxml] Re: Static website for liblouis
On the topic of static websites, if we moved the project downloads to
SourceForge then it has a website space where one could create static pages. I
guess why I am thinking that sort of way is that at least for the downloads
SourceForge will offer us the mirrors they have around the world for people to
download from.
I think there is quite a bit of freedom as to what one can do on the
SourceForge system, in one of my projects I set it so that the repository would
be downloaded, zipped up and posted to the website automatically on a daily
basis so that people could get a daily snapshot.
Michael Whapples
On 07/10/2013 13:26, John J. Boyer wrote:
> Keith Creasy from APH is now maintaining the liblouis.org website. I
> would like it to contain material for liblouisutdml in addition to
> liblouis. The two belong together.
>
> Keith is also maintaining thhe brailleblaster.org website. We also
> registered liblouis.com and brailleblaster.com so nobody could grab
> them.
>
> Johhn
>
> On Mon, Oct 07, 2013 at 12:47:56PM +0200, Christian Egli wrote:
>> Hi all
>>
>> With all the discussion about how to host our downloads in the future
>> I looked at creating a static web site for liblouis which could be
>> hosted anywhere.
>>
>> Why?
>>
>> It is clear that we will have to find a new solution for hosting our
>> downloads. The easiest (and probably the most accessible) way to do
>> this is to host them somewhere statically (e.g. via ftp). If we do
>> this we might as well move over some of the other content, i.e. not
>> just the downloads, and create a static web site. So, just for kicks
>> I went ahead and created a static site using Jekyll, which was dead
>> easy and quite fun.
>>
>> Where?
>>
>> A prototype of the site is hosted at http://liblouis.github.io. It is
>> produced offline using Jekyll and Bootstrap3 and then copied onto a
>> web server. Since I don't have hosting space lying around I just used
>> github pages to host the site for now, but this could be anywhere e.g.
>> liblouis.org. The site is produced mostly using text files (textile),
>> so it should be easy to edit it using any text editor. To look at the
>> source head over to https://github.com/egli/liblouis-website. For
>> example the downloads directory contains the zip files and a simple
>> index.textile.
>>
>> What?
>>
>> I moved all the content from the google code pages over except the
>> issues and the source. So there is a front page, the news, the
>> presentations, the online docs and the downloads.
>>
>> So what?
>>
>> This gives the liblouis project another option as to how we could
>> solve the downloads problem and would give us long term a good and
>> accessible way to present the project on the web. For now I think the
>> best option is to leave everything as is (on google code) and only
>> look for a solution for the downloads but long term I think building
>> a static site is an idea to be taken seriously.
>>
>> So my questions for now are the following:
>>
>> - is this site accessible?
>> - would it be easier to edit the site using any text editor, Jekyll and
>> command line tools as opposed to some kind of web based management tool
>> (like the google code admin pages)?
>> - If so does it make sense to use Jekyll?
>>
>> Anyway, this was a fun experiment for me, if we decide to take this
>> anywhere all the better.
>>
>> Thanks
>> Christian
>>
>> --
>> Christian Egli
>> Swiss Library for the Blind, Visually Impaired and Print Disabled
>> Grubenstrasse 12, CH-8045 Zürich, Switzerland
>>
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