Re: [Freecol-developers] Website fixes

[winter]

Hi,

 

I was anticipating of moving the website over to GitHub someday, but it's kinda surprising you'd like to move over the domain so fast when the other stuff is still on SF? That could get difficult, I never knew whom of the inactive people controls the domain and possibly the donation thing to pay for it.

Btw., the SF webserver might be slower, but it's a bit more flexible. On GitHub you have to use only the version and plugins of Jekyll they provide and they are still on 3.8.5: https://pages.github.com/versions/

Would it be easier to get https support for the freecol.org domain on GitHub?

 

Anyway, we should start with spliting off the repository. Do you have experience with "git filter-branch"? That'd be the best way to get a website repository with complete history. If you don't, I'd try my luck on it, but no promises.

 

Greetings

 

wintertime

 

Gesendet: Donnerstag, 02. Januar 2020 um 21:26 Uhr
Von: "David Lewis" <highwayofl...@gmail.com>
An: win...@genial.ms
Cc: "D Blakeley" <d_blake...@yahoo.com>, "FreeCol Developers" <freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
Betreff: Re: [Freecol-developers] Website fixes

Hey Winter, you might have sent it earlier, but can you send a link to the new repo for the website, or merge your changes into the website repo on Github?
or we could fork it... however you think best.

https://github.com/FreeCol/www.freecol.org

We can activate Github Pages for that repo and set it to the master branch... I set you as owner, so you should be able to configure that. once that's done and it looks good, we could transfer the DNS over to Github for "freecol.org"

 

-- David

 

On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 10:24 AM <win...@genial.ms> wrote:

Hi,

 

I guess, Mikes response got into your spam folder or even deleted by your mail provider.

I would go into the mailing list settings and let it always send you a copy, even when someone sent you one directly.

 

SF forums, bugtracker, wiki, news items are all Markdown. GitHub also uses it everywhere. Thats why I thought it's nice to allow it on the website, too.

 

I changed enough for today, so I just uploaded the new Jekyll-generated HTML5 version of the website to the server.

Please, take a look on it!

I'd like to improve the main menu at left next, as it's missing some pages and some are difficult to find.

Then there is some simplifications on the layouts and css to do.

I'd also like to know what you think about the current website code and where you think more changes are necessary.

 

Greetings

 

wintertime

 

 

Gesendet: Donnerstag, 02. Januar 2020 um 12:41 Uhr
Von: "D Blakeley via Freecol-developers" <freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
An: "Michael T. Pope" <mp...@computer.org>, "David Lewis" <highwayofl...@gmail.com>
Cc: "FreeCol Developers" <freecol-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
Betreff: Re: [Freecol-developers] Website fixes

 

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

 

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