Hi everyone, as you might have read on different github issues, i'm currently thinking about replacing our current website due to various reasons. For a start, let's leave the forum as it is (that will be the next thing..) and think about a new home and a new backend for our website.
From my point of view, drupal was quite over-featured for just maintaining the website. It was hard to maintain and we had (and have) problems with spam. As a result, more lightwight systems should be considered for the new website. In previous conversations, wordpress has been recommended by some people. This has been also my favourite for quite some time, since i'm using it also on other projects and it is well maintained. It gives us a slimmer CMS without all the overhead of drupal. After starting to look into the "newer" techniques that came up in the last years, i stumbled upon Jekyll and its github integration. Jekyll is a generator for static webpages which is supported by github for the "Github pages", which can be hosted in a github repository side by side with the source code (in its own branch). This would allow us to host our webpage via github (which is a great advantage since we do not have to care for hosting anymore) and manage the code of the site via git. Having the site in git makes it really easy to propose changes (via pull requests) and would ease collaborative editing. The downside (well, maybe..) is that this setup is basically a static approach, so there is no built-in support for comments (though you can integrate services like disqus). From my point of view, this limitation is not a problem. I'm not keen on moderating posts/comments on the website AND the forum :) And it would be very easy to move the static pages to a different hosting service if github would close its hosting service at some time.. I've already pushed some example code to the gh-pages branch of the hydrogen repository which can be viewed here: http://hydrogen-music.github.io/hydrogen/ . This is just the default layout with some content from the curren h2 website. Please let me know what you think of this solution and if there might be better solutions for hosting the project website. Has anybody already experience with hosting pages with jekyll on github? Best regards, Sebastian ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patterns at an interface-level. Reveals which users, apps, and protocols are consuming the most bandwidth. Provides multi-vendor support for NetFlow, J-Flow, sFlow and other flows. Make informed decisions using capacity planning reports.http://sdm.link/zohodev2dev _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list Hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
