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[Miguel Angel Ajo <mangelajo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I like it too! ;)

I will be glad the day we can get rid of confluence and keep it all to asciidocs ;)
and a simpler frontpage will only be good.

Martin d'Allens wrote:
> 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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> > > Mark
> > >
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