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[Fabrizio Tappero <fabrizio.tappero@xxxxxxxxx>]

guys,
the quality of the new KiCad webpage is surreal !

well done.
Fabrizio

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Fabrizio Tappero



On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:46 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I'd put in my vote for serving it ourselves, if it's not too much
> trouble. I also don't much care for external resources.
>
> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:44:50PM +0200, Martin d'Allens wrote:
>> I had the same problem with Privacy Badger. Disabling the extension
>> fixed the issue.
>>
>> We could serve the font ourselves, we don't care much to get font updates.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 5:31 PM, Chris Pavlina <pavlina.chris@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > With due respect, it sounds to me like you're saying "if I turn off
>> > pieces that make it look good, it doesn't look good anymore". Which,
>> > well, yeah.
>> >
>> >
>> > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 05:29:58PM +0200, "André S." wrote:
>> >> Hi everyone,
>> >>
>> >> the new website looks good.
>> >> However a (minor?) issue: I checked today and have some display issues when
>> >> viewing the site in Firefox. The symbols on the buttons e.g. for Download
>> >> are not displayed correctly. See attached screenshot. All scripts for the
>> >> site are allowed (via NoScript <https://noscript.net/>). But NoScript blocks
>> >> some *content *(fonts) because it resides on a foreign server
>> >> (bootstrapcdn.com).
>> >>
>> >> I have no idea how to prevent this (maybe put the fonts on the KiCad
>> >> server), but it makes the site look broken for people using the NoScript
>> >> extension/requires additional "work" to allow not only the scripts but also
>> >> the external content.
>> >>
>> >> System: Windows 7 Home Premium
>> >> Firefox: 40.03
>> >>
>> >> When viewing in Google Chrome or Internet Explorer 11 the fonts look OK. I
>> >> think because I have no script-blocker when using them.
>> >> My main browser is Firefox, mainly because of NoScript ...
>> >>
>> >> Best regards,
>> >>   André
>> >>
>> >> Am 26.08.2015 um 23:31 schrieb Nick Østergaard:
>> >> >Hello KiCad developers
>> >> >
>> >> >We are happy to announce a new website for KiCad, this instead of the
>> >> >old website system which was using Confluence, that has proved very
>> >> >unstable.
>> >> >
>> >> >The goal of this new website is to be the go to place for official
>> >> >KiCad information and should support some way of having regular KiCad
>> >> >users contribute to the site, let that be fixing typing mistakes or
>> >> >just improving the content in what ever way seems fit.
>> >> >
>> >> >This time around we have taken a new approach, instead of using the
>> >> >monster of confluence, we have choosen Hugo, a static site generator.
>> >> >This should make sure that the requirements for the hosting server is
>> >> >quite low, and should help increasing the availability of the site.
>> >> >Although KiCad itself does not run on mobile devices (think
>> >> >smartphones and the like) the website should be way more appealing on
>> >> >theese platforms too.
>> >> >
>> >> >I would like to thank especially Mark Roszko for helping me out with
>> >> >actually developing the site and have done a quite substantial amount
>> >> >of work in this regard. There are other people which has contributed
>> >> >with different pieces of the site too, I will also thank them and I
>> >> >will list their github usernames here for reference. The list is
>> >> >listed approximately with the amount of changes the person has
>> >> >contribuated with. Largest ammount of work contributed on top.
>> >> >
>> >> >Thor-Arne
>> >> >Caerbannog
>> >> >tfboy
>> >> >cpavlina
>> >> >reportingsjr
>> >> >adamwolf
>> >> >mangelajo
>> >> >carycode
>> >> >marcos-paltatech
>> >> >
>> >> >The site still needs some fixes here and there, and new people are
>> >> >still contributing, but I choose to ask Ajo to enable it now, since it
>> >> >is mostly done and the confluence site has had something in the order
>> >> >of 95% downtime. A site in progress is way better than a site down.
>> >> >
>> >> >Contributions are made on https://github.com/KiCad/kicad-website/
>> >> >
>> >> >I also thank various people for their general feedback, that I have
>> >> >received and tried to take into account when appropiate.
>> >> >
>> >> >Regards
>> >> >Nick Østergaard
>> >> >
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