Re: Website Redo Kick Off

Hi Dana,

This is awesome! Keep us posted.

Dave Cramer

dave.cramer(at)credativ(dot)ca
http://www.credativ.ca

On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 2:24 PM, dmp <danap(at)ttc-cmc(dot)net> wrote:

> In the last week I have evaluated the reduced list of tools for creating
> the new website by installing, using, and reviewing the documentation. A
> selection has been made to use Jekyll.
>
> The reason largely based on the two goals outlined in the initial thread
> and user responses.
>
> Goals:
>
>
> 1. Make the Site Easier To Maintain.
> 2. Allow Others to Contribute/Manage the Updates.
>
> Jekyll met those requirements better than the other options, Twitter
> Bootstrap was removed, because it is not a site generation tool as
> pointed out by feedback.
>
> The plan is to change the site to match the existing style of the
> postgresql.org site. As I begin this process of creating the scripted
> site I will post updates for review to:
>
> http://pgjdbc.ourbigsky.com/
>
> danap
>
>
> dmp wrote:
>
>> Over the weekend I completed the review of all the scripting tools
>> documented
>> for generating static sites. Per the group's request I narrowed the
>> field down
>> to the ones listed below. Narrowing was first based on currency of project
>> files, then other things like documentation. Since I'm new to these
>> tools I'm
>> sure the narrowing was much less knowledge based, but rather by
>> impression.
>>
>> I will begin installing and trying the tools now. At the top of this, only
>> by coincidence, was Jekyll it had the most responses. Webgen seems to
>> have been
>> a stable in this area for awhile and was quoted by many of the other
>> tools.
>> Apache ASF is a CMS, but was mentioned in the discussion and may be viable
>> for the website generation I do not know. I will investigate further. I
>> came
>> across Twitter Bootstrap and it impressed me because it seemed simple
>> and had
>> example templates for various sites.
>>
>> danap.
>>
>> Tools:
>>
>> ===================
>> Jekyll: (2013)
>> http://jekyllrb.com/
>> ruby
>>
>> ===================
>> Webgen: (2013)
>> https://github.com/gettalong/**webgen<https://github.com/gettalong/webgen>
>> http://webgen.rubyforge.org/**documentation/<http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/>
>> ruby
>>
>> ====================
>> Apache ASF Content Management System: (In Use since 2010)
>> https://svn.apache.org/repos/**infra/websites/cms/<https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/>(subversion)
>> http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.**html <http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html>(Info)
>>
>> =====================
>> Twitter Bootstrap (2013)
>> http://twitter.github.io/**bootstrap/<http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/>
>> javascript
>>
>>
>>
>
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