Re: Website Redo Kick Off

In the last week I have evaluated the reduced list of tools for creating
the new website by installing, using, and reviewing the documentation. A
selection has been made to use Jekyll.

The reason largely based on the two goals outlined in the initial thread
and user responses.

Goals:

1. Make the Site Easier To Maintain.
2. Allow Others to Contribute/Manage the Updates.

Jekyll met those requirements better than the other options, Twitter
Bootstrap was removed, because it is not a site generation tool as
pointed out by feedback.

The plan is to change the site to match the existing style of the
postgresql.org site. As I begin this process of creating the scripted
site I will post updates for review to:

http://pgjdbc.ourbigsky.com/

danap

dmp wrote:
> Over the weekend I completed the review of all the scripting tools
> documented
> for generating static sites. Per the group's request I narrowed the
> field down
> to the ones listed below. Narrowing was first based on currency of project
> files, then other things like documentation. Since I'm new to these
> tools I'm
> sure the narrowing was much less knowledge based, but rather by impression.
>
> I will begin installing and trying the tools now. At the top of this, only
> by coincidence, was Jekyll it had the most responses. Webgen seems to
> have been
> a stable in this area for awhile and was quoted by many of the other tools.
> Apache ASF is a CMS, but was mentioned in the discussion and may be viable
> for the website generation I do not know. I will investigate further. I
> came
> across Twitter Bootstrap and it impressed me because it seemed simple
> and had
> example templates for various sites.
>
> danap.
>
> Tools:
>
> ===================
> Jekyll: (2013)
> http://jekyllrb.com/
> ruby
>
> ===================
> Webgen: (2013)
> https://github.com/gettalong/webgen
> http://webgen.rubyforge.org/documentation/
> ruby
>
> ====================
> Apache ASF Content Management System: (In Use since 2010)
> https://svn.apache.org/repos/infra/websites/cms/ (subversion)
> http://www.apache.org/dev/cms.html (Info)
>
> =====================
> Twitter Bootstrap (2013)
> http://twitter.github.io/bootstrap/
> javascript
>
>