I'm not really familiar with Jekyll, Sebastian, but from your description
it sounds good. Lightweight is key, and frankly, I would stay away from
anything that allows comments.... as you know moderating comments is a
fulltime job. Having the ability to manage the code via git easily is a
huge plus. In my uninformed opinion, it sounds good. ;)
Paul
On Mon, Jul 18, 2016 at 6:40 PM, Steve Boyer <boyer.st...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hey Mauser,
>
> We could look at using an openshift solution. Openshift by RedHat uses
> github and would allow us to do our site that way using a lamp or wamp
> stack as a local development environment.
>
> As far as coding backend, do we really need something as fully featured as
> a cms, or can we leave the forums as is, create a static site, and then
> include a common navigation into the forums to help marry the two together?
> One of the big problems I've encountered with the cms anf forum solutions
> is integration, and more specifically, the lack thereof.
>
> I've tried most every cms out there, and when it comes to non-technical
> people uploading content to the site, they work great, but we have a fair
> few tech savvy people on this project.
>
> I mainly uae codeigniter on my php projects now. And it's a nice and
> lightweight php framework. I find it great for making static sites.
>
> Just a couple alternative suggestions.
>
> On Jul 18, 2016 18:09, <mau...@smoors.de> wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
>>
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