[yt-dev] Website

[Jeffrey S. Oishi]

Instead of input/output it could be more like "doing this" and "produces
this", or something similarly more user friendly...

On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 4:01 PM Jeffrey S. Oishi <jsoishi at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Matt,
>
> The website looks outstanding. I really like it. One small thing: in the
> examples code/output part, perhaps under the menu bar it could list the
> current example name (so, "Quick Calculations" for the default) and label
> the panes "input" and "output". It might help people understand what the
> website is showing, since code examples like that are not super common.
>
> Otherwise, it's really great. Nice work!
>
> j
>
>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 2:33 PM Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Thanks for the feedback, folks.  I've pushed up a new version with all
>> the examples that were previously placeholders filled out:
>>
>> http://matt-website.hub.yt/
>>
>> I think this is the part of the front page that needs the most help.  If
>> you have ideas for pithy examples, I'm happy to either add them, or pull
>> from your repo/pull request.
>>
>> I'll send out again once I've added the extensions and other bits, but I
>> think folks seem to be generally in favor, so I'll keep working on it off
>> and on.
>>
>> -Matt
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 9:45 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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