Good ideas from everyone…
I’m still working through issues in the “tutorials” and “teaching” sections, but it’s getting closer.
I think one remaining question is how to indicate “please edit this site” (e.g., adding pages). I can write up a how-to, but I’m not sure where to hang it. Maybe I need to add a “contributing” link to the top navigation?
-Geoff
On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 7:44 AM Jens linucks42@gmail.com wrote:
Hi Geoff,
I think it looks really good - nice and clean, and easy to navigate.
Having said I think the front page is possibly a little too sparse and some more pictures showing avogadro in action, or just some flashy rendering would probably add something.
I noticed one issue. On the tutorials page (http://avogadro.github.io/tutorials/ http://avogadro.github.io/tutorials/) if I hover over the first “Tutorials:Getting started” link, clicking on it (it links to"tutorials:Getting started") doesn’t do anything. There’s another Tutorials:Getting started" link further down which does work and links to http://avogadro.github.io/tutorials/getting_started.html http://avogadro.github.io/tutorials/getting_started.html
I also don’t get to the paper when I click on the “The Avogadro Paper” link (http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-4-17 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1758-2946-4-17).
Best wishes,
Jens
On 30 November 2014 at 18:09, Geoffrey Hutchison <geoff.hutchison@gmail.com mailto:geoff.hutchison@gmail.com> wrote:
Short summary: I have a beta site at http://avogadro.github.io/ http://avogadro.github.io/ (not the permanent home) and want feedback
I mentioned this previously, but I’ve made significant progress in extracting everything from MediaWiki and getting a functional Jekyll site going.
I’m tired of maintaining MediaWiki, and I dislike the theme/skins and the spam issues. I looked around at possibilities, and thought that using a static site generator like Jekyll would be a great idea:
- People can still edit the Git repository
- No security issues
- Infinitely customizable
- Easier to translate and mirror (and distribute with Avogadro itself)
While there were many concerns, particularly about editing, there seemed to be general support. It took a bit of time to wrap my head around Jekyll, but I’ve migrated almost everything from MediaWiki.
I’d definitely like some feedback. Please take a look at http://avogadro.github.io/ http://avogadro.github.io/
- What you like
- What you don’t
- Bugs or missing content (e.g., it looks horrible on platform X or browser Y)
- How to easily say “if you want to edit/improve this, please do X” on the site
A lot of things need updating, and I’ll be hiring a small team of undergraduates starting in January to update and complete an Avogadro v1 (and eventually v2) manual, including thorough tutorials and screencasts.
Thanks,
-Geoff
P.S. The developer docs are there too, but I’m thinking these should really be migrated to GitHub wiki pages to “live” with the repositories themselves.
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