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[Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx>]

Yes, there should be some themes which utilise the bootstrap framework
for the template when I look around.

2015-07-13 16:30 GMT+02:00 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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