Looks super spiffy! Are the pages still mostly markdown? Or does this add a lot of HTML? I am unfamiliar with Bootstrap as a framework, so these might be really dumb questions. I'm imagining editing pages via the CMS, and am curious how well that will work.
Mike On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:40 PM, Bill Havanki <[email protected]>wrote: > Some folks in the IRC room were discussing how nice the Spark [1] and Hue > [2] sites look compared to ours. While babysitting integration tests, I > decided to prototype a rework of our site using Twitter Bootstrap [3], the > front-end framework that both of those other sites use. > > Here are the pages that I converted. > > * http://people.apache.org/~bhavanki/accumulo-bootstrapped/ > * > > http://people.apache.org/~bhavanki/accumulo-bootstrapped/notable_features.html > * http://people.apache.org/~bhavanki/accumulo-bootstrapped/source.html > > You can navigate between those pages using the left nav menu, but try > anywhere else and you'll jump out to the production site. > > The pages use Bootstrap's own theme, with only very slight modifications to > be close to our own theme. (I actually disabled around 90% of > accumulo.css.) I kept the page organization like production, although we > have many other whizbang options with Bootstrap. Some bits I left messy, > like the nav items for the user manuals, but you should get the idea > anyway. > > Beyond just how it looks, Bootstrap gives you many other capabilities, > especially responsive display for mobile and tablets, so there's benefit to > a switch beyond just pretty looking boxes. > > [1] spark.apache.org > [2] gethue.com > [3] getbootstrap.com > > -- > // Bill Havanki > // Solutions Architect, Cloudera Govt Solutions > // 443.686.9283 >
