Hi Steve! Am 19.07.2016 00:40, schrieb Steve Boyer: > 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.
This is new, i'll have a look! > > 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. No. We really don't need a CMS and i would also like to avoid that! > 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'm ok with every solution that is easy enough to understand after reading some lines of documentation. And no matter which software we'll be using, there's always the possibility to get from the people on the mailing list :) Best regards, Sebastiyn > 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/ [1] . 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. 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