On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:37 PM, Bill Havanki <[email protected]>wrote:
> That's easy to do, yes. Bootstrap uses a 12-column grid system, so we can > squeeze the body into a smaller portion of that grid. We can also set > margins. > > Another idea, of course, is to use some of that horizontal space for side > column content. > I like how the the Spark site has the big download button in the side column for every page; maybe we could do that. Any other ideas for side column content? > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:31 PM, Mike Drob <[email protected]> wrote: > > > Is there an easy (and global) way to shrink the width? Long lines of text > > are difficult to read. > > > > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 3:23 PM, Bill Havanki <[email protected] > > >wrote: > > > > > Greetings all, > > > > > > The reworked / Twitter Bootstrap version of our site is now viewable: > > > > > > http://people.apache.org/~bhavanki/accumulo-bootstrapped/ > > > > > > The site is built from the Subversion branch: > > > > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/site/branches/redesign14/ > > > > > > Now is a great time for anyone who wants to pitch in to get started. > Some > > > ideas: > > > > > > - Check that the pages still look decent after the conversion. > > > - Ensure that all pages can still be navigated to and from correctly. > > > - Rework a page with some Bootstrap enhancements, or to just look > better. > > > - Update a page to account for changes to the live site since the > branch > > > was created. (Of course we'll sync up just before switching.) > > > > > > As long as you save changes to Subversion, I can update my hosted copy > to > > > reflect them. Or, set up the ASF CMS in your own environment for quick > > > testing. > > > > > > We are definitely on target for releasing this site update with the > 1.6.0 > > > release. Thanks again for your past and future feedback. > > > > > > Bill H > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 3:22 PM, Bill Havanki < > [email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > The new branch is: > > > > > > > > https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/accumulo/site/branches/redesign14/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Bill Havanki < > > [email protected] > > > >wrote: > > > > > > > >> Thanks Al! > > > >> > > > >> I managed to set up the CMS tool in a VM and use it to build our > > current > > > >> site, as Josh suggested. If anyone else wants to do the same, these > > > >> instructions should work for installing the CMS - I found the README > > to > > > be > > > >> a bit lacking. > > > >> > > > >> http://www.apache.org/dev/cmsref.html#local-build > > > >> > > > >> I worked around the issue of there being lots of absolute URLs in > the > > > >> site by running this in the generated content dir and navigating to > > > >> localhost:8000 in the browser: > > > >> > > > >> python -m SimpleHTTPServer > > > >> > > > >> Unless I hear any objections, I'll create a branch for the > > bootstrapped > > > >> version of the site, and I'll kick it off with my prototype stuff. > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> On Tue, Mar 11, 2014 at 6:11 PM, Al Krinker <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > >> > > > >>> I am using Twitter Bootstrap at work for about 2 years now... it is > > > nice > > > >>> and gives you lots of nice things. However, we ran into issues at > > work > > > >>> where we were implementing custom js scripts and got into conflicts > > > with > > > >>> Twitter Bootstrap. The site is not js heavy, so Twitter Bootstrap > > would > > > >>> be > > > >>> a nice addition to it. Let me know if you need help. > > > >>> > > > >>> > > > >>> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 2:57 PM, Josh Elser <[email protected]> > > > wrote: > > > >>> > > > >>> > My comment was in context of maintaining a separate branch that > we > > > >>> could > > > >>> > work on and have staged separately to avoid holding the > production > > > >>> site in > > > >>> > stasis while we work on this. > > > >>> > > > > >>> > > > > >>> > On 3/6/14, 2:24 PM, Keith Turner wrote: > > > >>> > > > > >>> >> On Thu, Mar 6, 2014 at 10:44 AM, Josh Elser< > [email protected]> > > > >>> wrote: > > > >>> >> > > > >>> >> >I'm not aware of anything that gives you the nice WYSIWYG > > > interface. > > > >>> >>> > > > > >>> >>> > > > >>> >> I use the bookmarklet to edit pages in my web browser. > > > >>> >> > > > >>> >> https://cms.apache.org/#bookmark > > > >>> >> > > > >>> >> > > > >>> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> > > > >> -- > > > >> // 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 > > > > > > > > > -- > // Bill Havanki > // Solutions Architect, Cloudera Govt Solutions > // 443.686.9283 >
