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Re: official web page

 

I was going to propose Github pages for a custom domain (or kicad.github.io) :
https://pages.github.com/

But it seems that the Jekyll generation uses markdown, not asciidoc.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 4:52 PM, Nick Østergaard <oe.nick@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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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>>
>>
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>> Mark
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