I updated the site with a horizontal navbar. The menu is much more pleasant now.
On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 9:37 AM, Bill Havanki <[email protected]>wrote: > Thanks for all the feedback! Keep it coming :) > > The 1.4 and 1.5 manual links definitely need help, but they are easy to > clean up for sure (when I said I left some parts messy, I was thinking of > those). I'm going to convert the nav menu from the current vertical style > to a horizontal one with dropdowns - that will be more compact and allow > for submenus. It will also free up horizontal space for side content like > download buttons, news items, cat pictures, or whatever. > > Mike: The page content can still be Markdown, with very few changes. All > of the big changes occur in the "skeleton" of the page which wraps the > Markdown content, like including CSS and JS, defining the nav menu, header, > and footer, etc. > > Josh: Sure, glad for any help! Getting this converted for 1.6.0 would be > easy. One question I have is how we could serve up a converted beta site > for this while leaving the production one alone. Does the Apache web > framework support that somehow? > > Bill > > > On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 8:56 PM, Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote: > >> 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 >> > >> > > > > -- > // Bill Havanki > // Solutions Architect, Cloudera Govt Solutions > // 443.686.9283 > -- // Bill Havanki // Solutions Architect, Cloudera Govt Solutions // 443.686.9283
