Hello Glen,

Nice work :)
I will start looking into it and see how we can improve it more futher with carasoul included in it. If anyone have suggestion for images for carasoul or have some images idea with them please share.

Thanks
Gaurav

On Wednesday 16 July 2014 04:40 AM, Dave wrote:
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


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Gaurav Saini
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