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[Mark Roszko <mark.roszko@xxxxxxxxx>]

That's why we were looking at Hugo
http://gohugo.io/

It would allow embedding kicad documentation right into the site with
zero hackery. Otherwise we would have to redo the documentation in
markdown or have it on a separate site.

On Mon, Jul 13, 2015 at 11:16 AM, Martin d'Allens
<martin.dallens@xxxxxxxxx> 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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>>>
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>>> Mark
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Mark