Sorry for the top post... I'm about to head to the airport and the computer is
already packed.
I'd suggest migration to the GitHub.io setup we already have for about half of
the pages. That means we don't have to maintain the website itself, just the
content...
/D
On December 2, 2023 2:01:34 PM PST, Robert Helling <hell...@atdotde.de> wrote:
>Hi Dirk and all,
>
>> On 30. Nov 2023, at 19:45, Dirk Hohndel via subsurface
>> <subsurface@subsurface-divelog.org> wrote:
>>
>> The bad news is that both the slider with the pictures on the home page as
>> well as the drop down menu for narrow screens (so the hamburger in the top
>> left) had already been broken before - it's just that no one noticed. And
>> given that I hadn't touched the website in quite a while, I have to assume
>> that it had been broken for a while.
>>
>> I'm not sure where to take this from here. The logical next step really is
>> to just recreate the home page on the GitHub.io <http://github.io/> page and
>> be done with having our own web server - except for the update check and the
>> actual download / hosting of the binaries, I guess.
>>
>> Of course that once again is something that will require time and effort.
>>
>> If any of you are familiar with the GitHub.io <http://github.io/> website
>> system and want to contribute to Subsurface - here's your chance…?
>
>in my hybris, I have just tried to understand why the hamburger menu button is
>broken. But even with my browser in developer mode and page sources etc I
>failed (to be expected since I know almost nothing about java script). It
>seems that the magic that swaps the left hand side navigation bar for the
>hamburger menu once the window gets too narrow has been put there by Wordpress
>which in turn seems to use the divi library which you are supposed to use via
>a GUI to compose your java script (which is then minimised because who needs
>speaking variable names?). It’s all a total mess.
>
>You are probably right (as always): If updating Wordpress to a recent version
>to produce new static pages is not an option, it seems we will have to start
>from scratch. Do you have any idea how we can transfer the old content (with
>different languages etc)?
>
>Best
>Robert
>
>
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