The beautiful new site is live! Thanks, Nick! On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 2:21 PM, Misty Stanley-Jones < [email protected]> wrote:
> Absolutely fantastic!!! Got pointers to how tweaking the website would > work? > > In the new year I hope to really get started on a restructure of the Ref > Guide. I've thought about asking to move to AsciiDOC or MarkDown but I'd > like to do a proof-of-concept and see if it really gets us anything we > don't already have with Docbook. It's less of a potential value since we > are not hosted on Github, which has great integration with AsciiDOC and > MarkDown. I'm very interested in improving the look and feel of the doc. I > think a lot of it will be structural -- reorganizing and re-chunking > content. > > In the meantime, theming the Docbook is not as hard as you might think. > Have a look at the XSLT files. (I know, famous last words). > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> wrote: > >> For those not following closely in JIRAland, I've two changes that are >> ready to go. First, there's transition over to a bootstrap-based layout >> for >> our home page. This work is done in HBASE-12688. This improves the looks >> of >> things and will make it pretty easy to update our look-and-feel in the >> future. Second, I fixed a build problem where the online book wasn't >> getting its intended styling. This is done in HBASE-12687. I'd like to >> update the book to look the same as the front-page, but getting styles >> into >> docbook is proving non-trivial. >> >> Anyway, both of these changes are pushed to master and we're ready for a >> site re-build with the new look. I'll make that happen tomorrow morning >> unless I hear actionable objections. >> >> You can get a preview of things to come over one >> http://people.apache.org/~ndimiduk/site/ >> >> Thanks, >> Nick >> >> On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Stack <[email protected]> wrote: >> > >> > Thanks. I've been having a dialog w/ your crew that has been going on a >> > while... was wondering if any progress. >> > Grand, >> > St.Ack >> > >> > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Ryan Rawson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > >> > > I'm checking to see if our marketing and web team can help. The >> > > primary requirement is going to be ditching the mvn:site from the >> > > front page. "reskinning it" might not be so easy. >> > > >> > > -ryan >> > > >> > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:52 AM, lars hofhansl <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> > > > +1 >> > > > I just came across one of the various HBase vs. Cassandra articles, >> and >> > > one of the main tenants of the articles was how much better the >> Cassandra >> > > documentation was.Thank god we have Misty now. :) >> > > > >> > > > (not sure how much just a skin would help, but it surely won't hurt) >> > > > >> > > > -- Lars >> > > > From: Nick Dimiduk <[email protected]> >> > > > To: hbase-dev <[email protected]> >> > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 9:46 AM >> > > > Subject: A face-lift for 1.0 >> > > > >> > > > Heya, >> > > > >> > > > In mind of the new release, I was thinking we should clean up our >> act a >> > > > little bit in regard to hbase.apache.org and our book. Just because >> > the >> > > > project started in 2007 doesn't mean we need a site that looks like >> > it's >> > > > from 2007. Phoenix's site looks great in this regard. >> > > > >> > > > For the home page, I was thinking of converting it over to bootstrap >> > [0] >> > > so >> > > > that it'll be easier to pick up theme, either on of our own or >> > something >> > > > pre-canned [1]. I'm no web designer, but the idea is this would >> make it >> > > > easier for someone who is to help us out. >> > > > >> > > > For the book, I just want to skin it -- no intention of changing >> > docbook >> > > > part (such a decision I'll leave up to Misty). I'm less sure on this >> > > > project, but Riak's docs are a nice inspiration. >> > > > >> > > > What do you think? Do we know any web designers who can help out >> with >> > the >> > > > CSS? >> > > > >> > > > -n >> > > > >> > > > [0]: http://getbootstrap.com >> > > > [1]: https://wrapbootstrap.com/ >> > > > [2]: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > >> > >> > >
