[yt-dev] Website

B.W. Keller kellerbw at mcmaster.ca
Fri Aug 12 08:04:49 PDT 2016


I really like the new layout & theme, much cleaner looking!

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:45 AM, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> A while ago, yt-project.org was converted to a "generated" site.
> Templates are used to generate each page, so it's much easier to modify.
> I've also moved the calculation of contributors into a function, and the
> gallery and the members list are in .yaml files, so they can be updated
> without writing raw HTML.
>
> I took some time this week to experiment a bit with the website.  My fork
> is here:
>
> https://bitbucket.org/MatthewTurk/yt.website
>
> and a build is here:
>
> http://matt-website.hub.yt/
>
> The big changes:
>
>  * Light instead of dark background ("cyborg" theme to "flatly")
>  * Made the text more normal-sized most places
>  * Changed the masthead on the front page to *not* be a carousel and have
> the new logo, along with a more punchy intro
>  * Added a set of "examples", which come from a .yaml file.
>
> I've been experimenting with the examples and the theme in particular, and
> I personally like it a lot more.
>
> If you fork my repo and make changes (especially if you want to add
> examples, which can take *either* text output *or* images) as soon as the
> changes go in, it auto-builds on matt-website.hub.yt .  Feedback here or
> on slack would be very much appreciated, and if folks like it, I'd like to
> deploy it.
>
> A few other things it would need before it's ready:
>
>  * Add an extensions page, with extension information drawn from .yaml file
>  * Make the blog look like this thing, and maybe figure out if the blog
> could be part of the repo
>  * Update the text and images wherever appropriate (i.e., update
> references to the hub)
>  * Streamline navigation a little bit
>  * Fill out the examples, maybe even have them link to the hub
>
> -Matt
>
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