Re: We're on Bootstrap! (Re: Proposed Bootstrap-based website for us (ROL-2024))
Looks great guys! On Jul 15, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Glen Mazza glen.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gaurav, OK, I'm done on my side: http://roller.apache.org/ I followed the website architecture used by the Apache Isis team (http://isis.apache.org/contributors/updating-the-cms-site.html) and that saved me a lot of time. Feel free to make website enhancements, possibly looking at other Apache websites for inspiration (https://projects.apache.org/indexes/quick.html -- BTW, I think Isis' carousel looks neat: http://isis.apache.org/index.html). You can svn commit all you want, that just moves it to the staging website (#4 here: http://roller.apache.org/getinvolved/edit_website.html), but for significant changes, please hold off on hitting the publish-to-production button (#5) until the team has a chance to review the change on staging and possibly make suggestions. The way the Apache CMS works is that the markdown files (*.mdtext) under the content folder are run through a template (line #9 and #10 here: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/roller/cmssite/trunk/lib/path.pm?revision=1610818view=markup), converting them to HTML files. For most text you'll create an .mdtext file and run it through the basic.html template (line #10 of the above link); for advanced stuff you can store an HTML under templates/*.html and have a dummy/empty .mdtext file run through that .html file, effectively resulting in the HTML becoming viewable (see line #9 for an example of a dummy markdown file.) Regards, Glen On 07/13/2014 08:31 AM, Glen Mazza wrote: Hi Gaurav, I'm going to go ahead with what I have this week (without the carousel), in the interim, please go ahead with the carousel'ed version (either [1] or [2] is good) There's two parts to this work: one is getting us to bootstrap (there's no guarantee just copying the files to our website folder will cause it to work -- I need to research this, the current website uses Apache CMS and may be expecting Markdown instead of HTML files), for that we just need a simple but workable website (what I have.) Once #1 is done, you're welcome to add/replace with any other bootstrap pages--carousel and whatever other bells and whistles. Make sure the screenshots look good. It's better to have nothing than have something that looks bad. By doing the carousel after the deployment of the non-carouseled version, this gives us time to have good screenshots while not forcing us to rush the screenshots just so we can get on Bootstrap. I do need you check out the current non-bootstrap website, make a trivial change to it--add the word test to a page maybe, svn commit it, view the word test on staging, publish it to our production website, view the word test on our production website, undo your trivial change, commit your undo, view it on staging, and publish your undo. In getting from A to B you need to understand A first (you need SVN practice). It's all documented here: http://roller.apache.org/getinvolved/edit_website.html and I'm available either on the dev@ list of off-line for any questions you have. Regards, Glen On 07/13/2014 07:22 AM, Gaurav Saini wrote: Hello Glen, Great work, website now looks good. I have searched a bit and found 2 themes if you can consider them [1] http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/ [2] http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html and have one of these which seems to be more good to you. Also, the Roller current home page have a lot of content we can add that also to these pages. Glen, I can build the roller website on top of any of these two themes, if it looks good to you and will share with the community. Also, I am interested in adding some images to the carousel, if you have any idea of what type of images we can add up there (some pics can be screenshot of roller UI ). [1] - http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/ [2] - http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html Thanks Gaurav On Thursday 10 July 2014 03:06 AM, Glen Mazza wrote: Hi team, in ROL-2024 I attached a .tar.gz file showing a proposed Bootstrap-based website to replace our current Roller website. This is just a starter website, something we can build on over time (in particular, one thing I'd like to eventually see is a Bootstrap carousel of rotating screenshots, like OpenMeetings has: http://openmeetings.apache.org/). Please take a look at the website and let me know if this is good enough to make live, if not, what changes you would like prior to that happening. Please distinguish between before-deployment changes (my main concern here -- right now, I'm just trying to modernize our current roller.apache.org site, so it only has to be better than that right now), and changes that anyone can do after the site goes live. Don't worry about hurting my feelings--the purpose of this website is to
Re: We're on Bootstrap! (Re: Proposed Bootstrap-based website for us (ROL-2024))
Hello Glen, Nice work :) I will start looking into it and see how we can improve it more futher with carasoul included in it. If anyone have suggestion for images for carasoul or have some images idea with them please share. Thanks Gaurav On Wednesday 16 July 2014 04:40 AM, Dave wrote: Very nice. - Dave On Tue, Jul 15, 2014 at 4:01 PM, Matt Raible m...@raibledesigns.com wrote: Looks great guys! On Jul 15, 2014, at 1:43 PM, Glen Mazza glen.ma...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Gaurav, OK, I'm done on my side: http://roller.apache.org/ I followed the website architecture used by the Apache Isis team ( http://isis.apache.org/contributors/updating-the-cms-site.html) and that saved me a lot of time. Feel free to make website enhancements, possibly looking at other Apache websites for inspiration (https://projects.apache.org/indexes/quick.html -- BTW, I think Isis' carousel looks neat: http://isis.apache.org/index.html). You can svn commit all you want, that just moves it to the staging website (#4 here: http://roller.apache.org/getinvolved/edit_website.html), but for significant changes, please hold off on hitting the publish-to-production button (#5) until the team has a chance to review the change on staging and possibly make suggestions. The way the Apache CMS works is that the markdown files (*.mdtext) under the content folder are run through a template (line #9 and #10 here: http://svn.apache.org/viewvc/roller/cmssite/trunk/lib/path.pm?revision=1610818view=markup), converting them to HTML files. For most text you'll create an .mdtext file and run it through the basic.html template (line #10 of the above link); for advanced stuff you can store an HTML under templates/*.html and have a dummy/empty .mdtext file run through that .html file, effectively resulting in the HTML becoming viewable (see line #9 for an example of a dummy markdown file.) Regards, Glen On 07/13/2014 08:31 AM, Glen Mazza wrote: Hi Gaurav, I'm going to go ahead with what I have this week (without the carousel), in the interim, please go ahead with the carousel'ed version (either [1] or [2] is good) There's two parts to this work: one is getting us to bootstrap (there's no guarantee just copying the files to our website folder will cause it to work -- I need to research this, the current website uses Apache CMS and may be expecting Markdown instead of HTML files), for that we just need a simple but workable website (what I have.) Once #1 is done, you're welcome to add/replace with any other bootstrap pages--carousel and whatever other bells and whistles. Make sure the screenshots look good. It's better to have nothing than have something that looks bad. By doing the carousel after the deployment of the non-carouseled version, this gives us time to have good screenshots while not forcing us to rush the screenshots just so we can get on Bootstrap. I do need you check out the current non-bootstrap website, make a trivial change to it--add the word test to a page maybe, svn commit it, view the word test on staging, publish it to our production website, view the word test on our production website, undo your trivial change, commit your undo, view it on staging, and publish your undo. In getting from A to B you need to understand A first (you need SVN practice). It's all documented here: http://roller.apache.org/getinvolved/edit_website.html and I'm available either on the dev@ list of off-line for any questions you have. Regards, Glen On 07/13/2014 07:22 AM, Gaurav Saini wrote: Hello Glen, Great work, website now looks good. I have searched a bit and found 2 themes if you can consider them [1] http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/ [2] http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html and have one of these which seems to be more good to you. Also, the Roller current home page have a lot of content we can add that also to these pages. Glen, I can build the roller website on top of any of these two themes, if it looks good to you and will share with the community. Also, I am interested in adding some images to the carousel, if you have any idea of what type of images we can add up there (some pics can be screenshot of roller UI ). [1] - http://getbootstrap.com/examples/carousel/ [2] - http://startbootstrap.com/templates/modern-business/index.html Thanks Gaurav On Thursday 10 July 2014 03:06 AM, Glen Mazza wrote: Hi team, in ROL-2024 I attached a .tar.gz file showing a proposed Bootstrap-based website to replace our current Roller website. This is just a starter website, something we can build on over time (in particular, one thing I'd like to eventually see is a Bootstrap carousel of rotating screenshots, like OpenMeetings has: http://openmeetings.apache.org/). Please take a look at the website and let me know if this is good enough to make live, if not, what changes you would like prior to that happening. Please distinguish between before-deployment changes (my main concern here
