That's weird. I never got Mike's response to me (direct or via dev mail list),
not even in my spam folder. Glad you left his reply to me in your reply Dave
otherwise I would never have seen it!
Didn't know what Markdown was so I googled it and it sounds like the 'text box'
you get on a forum (or on wordpress) that has a few word doc like controls
(font stuff, paragraph stuff, insert table/image/video etc) and the option to
switch view to the html code behind it. If that's the case (forgive me its hard
to imagine without some pictures haha) then yeah, no probs I'll be fine haha!
And if the backend stuff is still full of html then I should be able to even
tinker with that a bit every now and then when needed (if the frontend isn't
giving me the level of customization I need). Oh well I guess I'll wait until
Winter's a bit further along with development and he's ready for me to try
tinkering with stuff and I'll try and make some cool stuff for the site then.
I'm buried in a few other projects at the moment anyway.
> I'll try my access when I get to a computer, I haven't tried yet.
Yeah that's what I thought was weird when you had those troubles Dave, if you
have admin access to the sf project source files etc then surely editing some
simple text boxes on the sf project front page shouldn't be locked out to you.
If you were trying on phone maybe that was why it was being weird. Since you're
copying and pasting clumps of text & links I've put together in the forum it's
prob easier for you to do on comp anyway mate.
Regards
Blake
On Thursday, 2 January 2020, 09:53:09 pm ACDT, David Lewis
<highwayofl...@gmail.com> wrote:
I would echo your sentiments about WordPress. I used to be a Drupal / WP Dev
for Disney some years ago and I would steer very far away from the WordPress
platform, it'll give way more problems than it's worth. Especially security
wise.
Jekyll is probably the easiest method to come up with. It'll have the lowest
bar for coding and maintenance. You'll find it super easy, Blake. It's more of
a markdown formatter, so you write pages in Markdown instead of HTML. Templates
are in HTML CSS, but most of the time you don't need to touch these unless you
want a special customization or new feature added, but the content itself is
just all markdown docs.
I'll try my access when I get to a computer, I haven't tried yet.
David
On Thu, Jan 2, 2020, 1:07 AM Michael T. Pope <mp...@computer.org> wrote:
>>[Jonathan]
>> thing is the community will need someone versed in website coding and
>>styling if that person leaves there is a bit of an issue there.
This has always been the case.
>[D Blakeley]
> That's exactly what worries me. This Jekyll thing sounds like its not going
> to be something the average guy (eg me) can use...
AFAICT if you want to write content, then use of Jekyll means you have to
write in Markdown. You are going to have to be pretty average to find
Markdown a high bar:-).
If you want to build the site you will need a working Jekyll install,
which might be trickier.
The actual upload to SF is straightforward, but you need permission. I
have looked at the SF permissions, and remain confused. However if
winterime is able to upload (which is good) David should have the same
permissions. David, have you tried:
sftp $USERNAME,free...@web.sf.net
with your SF username and credentials?
Anyway... generally with respect to the website I really do not have a
many strong opinion about how or what it looks like. I am delighted
people are working on it again, and I am trying to help but mostly keep
out of the way. What I do care about is that it be low maintenance
because as Jonathan rightly reminds us above, people leave. However I do
not share Jonathan's enthusiasm for Wordpress... one CMS debacle was
enough.
Cheers,
Mike Pope
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