Not sure if this is something to address in this thread or if I should file a separate JIRA, but for some reason, accessing the site over https gets rid of the pretty CSS. Seems to happen in Chrome and Firefox. Anyone have a clue why?
-Dima On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 10:53 AM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@gmail.com> wrote: > Tweaking the layout of the website goes one of two ways. Either there's a > configuration point exposed from the maven skin or there isn't. If there > is, it's simply editing the appropriate custom tag in site.xml. If not, > we'll need to bring back the velocity site.vm template. Configurations are > documented here: > http://andriusvelykis.github.io/reflow-maven-skin/skin/config.html > > Tweaking visuals is now based on the theme. We can either choose another > bootswatch theme, or write our own. That stuff is documented here: > http://andriusvelykis.github.io/reflow-maven-skin/skin/themes/ > > Right now the site is separate from the book. In theory we could move book > content over to become site content, in which case it would be managed by > this same plugin. Short of that, we get into applying style via the docbook > plugin. I've looked into this a bit; it's not nearly as easy as applying > reflow-maven-skin. The current leads I have for this are > https://github.com/lcahlander/docbook and > > https://github.com/pmartin/phing-documentation-docbook/commit/8d8f0b81951c4e07420083b204599a6b9ef00537 > . > > Honestly though, if we're looking at moving away from docbook, I think we > should consider a more modern toolset, Sphinx-doc, for example: > http://sphinx-doc.org > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2014 at 8:21 PM, Misty Stanley-Jones < > mstanleyjo...@cloudera.com> wrote: > > > > Absolutely fantastic!!! Got pointers to how tweaking the website would > > work? > > > > In the new year I hope to really get started on a restructure of the Ref > > Guide. I've thought about asking to move to AsciiDOC or MarkDown but I'd > > like to do a proof-of-concept and see if it really gets us anything we > > don't already have with Docbook. It's less of a potential value since we > > are not hosted on Github, which has great integration with AsciiDOC and > > MarkDown. I'm very interested in improving the look and feel of the doc. > I > > think a lot of it will be structural -- reorganizing and re-chunking > > content. > > > > In the meantime, theming the Docbook is not as hard as you might think. > > Have a look at the XSLT files. (I know, famous last words). > > > > On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 1:21 PM, Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > For those not following closely in JIRAland, I've two changes that are > > > ready to go. First, there's transition over to a bootstrap-based layout > > for > > > our home page. This work is done in HBASE-12688. This improves the > looks > > of > > > things and will make it pretty easy to update our look-and-feel in the > > > future. Second, I fixed a build problem where the online book wasn't > > > getting its intended styling. This is done in HBASE-12687. I'd like to > > > update the book to look the same as the front-page, but getting styles > > into > > > docbook is proving non-trivial. > > > > > > Anyway, both of these changes are pushed to master and we're ready for > a > > > site re-build with the new look. I'll make that happen tomorrow morning > > > unless I hear actionable objections. > > > > > > You can get a preview of things to come over one > > > http://people.apache.org/~ndimiduk/site/ > > > > > > Thanks, > > > Nick > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 12:29 PM, Stack <st...@duboce.net> wrote: > > > > > > > > Thanks. I've been having a dialog w/ your crew that has been going > on a > > > > while... was wondering if any progress. > > > > Grand, > > > > St.Ack > > > > > > > > On Fri, Dec 5, 2014 at 11:55 AM, Ryan Rawson <ryano...@gmail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > > > > > I'm checking to see if our marketing and web team can help. The > > > > > primary requirement is going to be ditching the mvn:site from the > > > > > front page. "reskinning it" might not be so easy. > > > > > > > > > > -ryan > > > > > > > > > > On Thu, Dec 4, 2014 at 9:52 AM, lars hofhansl <la...@apache.org> > > > wrote: > > > > > > +1 > > > > > > I just came across one of the various HBase vs. Cassandra > articles, > > > and > > > > > one of the main tenants of the articles was how much better the > > > Cassandra > > > > > documentation was.Thank god we have Misty now. :) > > > > > > > > > > > > (not sure how much just a skin would help, but it surely won't > > hurt) > > > > > > > > > > > > -- Lars > > > > > > From: Nick Dimiduk <ndimi...@gmail.com> > > > > > > To: hbase-dev <dev@hbase.apache.org> > > > > > > Sent: Tuesday, December 2, 2014 9:46 AM > > > > > > Subject: A face-lift for 1.0 > > > > > > > > > > > > Heya, > > > > > > > > > > > > In mind of the new release, I was thinking we should clean up our > > > act a > > > > > > little bit in regard to hbase.apache.org and our book. Just > > because > > > > the > > > > > > project started in 2007 doesn't mean we need a site that looks > like > > > > it's > > > > > > from 2007. Phoenix's site looks great in this regard. > > > > > > > > > > > > For the home page, I was thinking of converting it over to > > bootstrap > > > > [0] > > > > > so > > > > > > that it'll be easier to pick up theme, either on of our own or > > > > something > > > > > > pre-canned [1]. I'm no web designer, but the idea is this would > > make > > > it > > > > > > easier for someone who is to help us out. > > > > > > > > > > > > For the book, I just want to skin it -- no intention of changing > > > > docbook > > > > > > part (such a decision I'll leave up to Misty). I'm less sure on > > this > > > > > > project, but Riak's docs are a nice inspiration. > > > > > > > > > > > > What do you think? Do we know any web designers who can help out > > with > > > > the > > > > > > CSS? > > > > > > > > > > > > -n > > > > > > > > > > > > [0]: http://getbootstrap.com > > > > > > [1]: https://wrapbootstrap.com/ > > > > > > [2]: http://docs.basho.com/riak/latest/ > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >
