+1 I like the Markdown (or whatever easy format.. non xml based). We will need to choose a framework for that. do you have anything in mind?
I also think we should have a consistent look and feel. I will be supportive on this... First thing will be to have a framework chosen.. Second to have a github we collaborate... Third.. maybe we could use one of those video calls to talk about how to do it. On Wed, Dec 6, 2017 at 11:20 PM, Bruce Snyder <[email protected]> wrote: > Several opinions have been expressed recently that the ActiveMQ website > needs some attention and that Artemis should be made more prominent. I'd > like to discuss some ideas to see what we could achieve on this topic. > > If we are going to make Artemis more prominent, the first concern I > identified is that the ActiveMQ website and the Artemis website are > authored differently. The ActiveMQ website is authored in the Confluence > wiki and exported to HTML automagically whereas the Artemis website is > authored in raw HTML. As a result, the two sites have a very different look > and feel to them. This presents some challenges to using the content > between the two. > > But this presents other questions -- do we want the two sites to look > similar or different? When someone looks at Artemis content, do we want the > user to immediately know that they are looking at ActiveMQ content vs. > Artemis based content solely due to the look and feel of the site? Should > there even be two different sites? > > I would prefer to have the site authored in a language that is easier to > write than HTML (such as Markdown). I would also like the files comprising > the site to live in a git repo. To give the site a modern look and feel > means using CSS (e.g., SASS, etc.). All these things can be achieved using > Jekyll, but first we would need to convert the raw HTML files to Mardown to > put in git. I have experimented with some tools to convert HTML to Markdown > and they are less than ideal. Does anyone have any experience with this? > > Sorry for the rambling. Anyone else interested to help tackle this thorny > set of issues? > > Bruce > > -- > perl -e 'print > unpack("u30","D0G)U8V4\@4VYY9&5R\"F)R=6-E+G-N>61E<D\!G;6%I;\"YC;VT*" );' > > ActiveMQ in Action: http://bit.ly/2je6cQ > Blog: http://bsnyder.org/ <http://bruceblog.org/> > Twitter: http://twitter.com/brucesnyder -- Clebert Suconic
