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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

Me and Nick were dicking about using Hugo the static site generator
that supports asciidoc and other formats to make a mainstream kicad
website. Of course leveraging things like bootstrap, etc to make the
site but with the ability to also beautifully include the asciidoc
kicad documentation and inline (with some commandline hacks to fix the
asciidoc)

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 8:45 AM, Tomasz Wlostowski
<tomasz.wlostowski@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 20.06.2015 02:53, Cirilo Bernardo wrote:
>> Hello everybody,
>>
>>  Marcos Chaparro has added a screenshot to the wikipedia entry on KiCad:
>> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KiCad#/media/File:KiCad_3D_with_IDF.png
> Hi all,
>
> Why don't we make a simple front page before the stable release, that
> doesn't scare people away?
>
> The wiki we have now under kicad-pcb.org provides a lot of extremely
> useful information, in particular for developers, but IMHO it's far too
> much for the front page - which should present a brief (3-4 sentences)
> description, basic features, links to download and a donate button.
>
> Unix command line on the front page of the project, just as we have now,
> is IMHO a straight road to make people think Kicad is "for hackers only"
> and drop our stuff without even trying it...
>
> I recently was shown Bootstrap, a very easy framework for making nice
> looking webpages (even someone as ignorant in web development as myself
> could do something that looks like a web page with it). What would you
> say about redesigning the Kicad front page (with links to tutorials,
> Wiki, etc.) so that it lets people quickly discover the features of
> Kicad and download it easily?
>
> Example design (~50 mins to create, with images) here:
> http://twlostow.web.cern.ch/twlostow/www_demo/
>
> Cheers,
> Tom
>
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Mark