Hi! Thanks for your input! After considering all the mentioned options, i suppose that using the jekyll/github pages combination is the easiest solution for us at the moment.
If someone is able to help out with the design, please speak up :) Best regards, Sebastian Am 18.07.2016 22:58, schrieb mau...@smoors.de: > 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 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Hydrogen-devel mailing list Hydrogen-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/hydrogen-devel
