Very nice. - Dave
On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Matt Raible <m...@raibledesigns.com> wrote: > Looks great guys! > > On Jul 15, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Glen Mazza <glen.ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hi Gaurav, OK, I'm done on my side: http://roller.apache.org/ I > followed the website architecture used by the Apache Isis team ( > http://isis.apache.org/contributors/updating-the-cms-site.html) and that > saved me a lot of time. > > > > Feel free to make website enhancements, possibly looking at other Apache > websites for inspiration (https://projects.apache.org/indexes/quick.html > -- BTW, I think Isis' carousel looks neat: > http://isis.apache.org/index.html). You can svn commit all you want, that > just moves it to the staging website (#4 here: > http://roller.apache.org/getinvolved/edit_website.html), but for > significant changes, please hold off on hitting the publish-to-production > button (#5) until the team has a chance to review the change on staging and > possibly make suggestions. > > > > The way the Apache CMS works is that the markdown files (*.mdtext) under > the content folder are run through a template (line #9 and #10 here: > http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/roller/cmssite/trunk/lib/path.pm?revision=1610818&view=markup), > converting them to HTML files. For most text you'll create an .mdtext file > and run it through the basic.html template (line #10 of the above link); > for advanced stuff you can store an HTML under templates/*.html and have a > dummy/empty .mdtext file run through that .html file, effectively resulting > in the HTML becoming viewable (see line #9 for an example of a dummy > markdown file.) > > > > Regards, > > Glen > > > > > > On 07/13/2014 08:31 AM, Glen Mazza wrote: > >> Hi Gaurav, I'm going to go ahead with what I have this week (without > the carousel), in the interim, please go ahead with the carousel'ed version > (either [1] or [2] is good) There's two parts to this work: one is getting > us to bootstrap (there's no guarantee just copying the files to our website > folder will cause it to work -- I need to research this, the current > website uses Apache CMS and may be expecting Markdown instead of HTML > files), for that we just need a simple but workable website (what I have.) > Once #1 is done, you're welcome to add/replace with any other bootstrap > pages--carousel and whatever other bells and whistles. > >> > >> Make sure the screenshots look good. It's better to have nothing than > have something that looks bad. By doing the carousel after the deployment > of the non-carouseled version, this gives us time to have good screenshots > while not forcing us to rush the screenshots just so we can get on > Bootstrap. > >> > >> I do need you check out the current non-bootstrap website, make a > trivial change to it--add the word "test" to a page maybe, svn commit it, > view the word "test" on staging, publish it to our production website, view > the word "test" on our production website, undo your trivial change, commit > your undo, view it on staging, and publish your undo. In getting from A to > B you need to understand A first (you need SVN practice). It's all > documented here: http://roller.apache.org/getinvolved/edit_website.html > and I'm available either on the dev@ list of off-line for any questions > you have. > >> > >> Regards, > >> Glen > >> > >> > >> On 07/13/2014 07:22 AM, Gaurav Saini wrote: > >>> Hello Glen, > >>> > >>> Great work, website now looks good. I have searched a bit and found 2 > themes if you can consider them [1] < > http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/> [2] < > http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html> and have > one of these which seems to be more good to you. > >>> Also, the Roller current home page have a lot of content we can add > that also to these pages. > >>> > >>> Glen, I can build the roller website on top of any of these two > themes, if it looks good to you and will share with the community. > >>> Also, I am interested in adding some images to the carousel, if you > have any idea of what type of images we can add up there (some pics can be > screenshot of roller UI ). > >>> > >>> [1] - http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/ > >>> [2] - http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html > >>> > >>> Thanks > >>> Gaurav > >>> > >>> On Thursday 10 July 2014 03:06 AM, Glen Mazza wrote: > >>>> Hi team, in ROL-2024 I attached a .tar.gz file showing a proposed > Bootstrap-based website to replace our current Roller website. This is just > a starter website, something we can build on over time (in particular, one > thing I'd like to eventually see is a Bootstrap "carousel" of rotating > screenshots, like OpenMeetings has: http://openmeetings.apache.org/). > >>>> > >>>> Please take a look at the website and let me know if this is good > enough to make live, if not, what changes you would like prior to that > happening. Please distinguish between before-deployment changes (my main > concern here -- right now, I'm just trying to modernize our current > roller.apache.org site, so it only has to be better than that right now), > and changes that anyone can do after the site goes live. > >>>> > >>>> Don't worry about hurting my feelings--the purpose of this website is > to expand Roller's usership many-fold, if you don't think this design will > accomplish it, I want to hear it. :) > >>>> > >>>> Regards, > >>>> Glen > >>> > >> > > > >
