[yt-dev] Website

Nathan Goldbaum nathan12343 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 08:19:21 PDT 2016


On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 10:04 AM, B.W. Keller <kellerbw at mcmaster.ca> wrote:

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

Agreed!

I really like putting the usage examples front and center.


>
> 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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