[yt-dev] Website

Nathan Goldbaum nathan12343 at gmail.com
Fri Aug 12 16:47:10 PDT 2016


On Friday, August 12, 2016, Matthew Turk <matthewturk at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Jeff, thanks for the suggestion -- I tried a bunch of ways to make the
> text work, but couldn't quite make it.  I've added a big arrow; do you
> think that is sufficient?  If not, I'll keep trying with the text. (It's a
> bit off on mobile, but can be fixed if it's worthwhile.)
>
> I've also added a preliminary extensions page, which isn't linked from
> main navbar but is at http://matt-website.hub.yt/extensions.html .
>
Hmm, just looked at this on my phone, the examples are kinda confusing
there. The arrow also appears below the output.


>
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2016 at 3:02 PM, Jeffrey S. Oishi <jsoishi at gmail.com
> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','jsoishi at gmail.com');>> wrote:
>
>> 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
>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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
>>>> <javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','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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