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Updating #SmartCustody website #16

Closed ChristopherA closed 3 years ago

ChristopherA commented 3 years ago

We have a separate static web site for our #SmartCustody project, as its audience & patrons are a bit different than the broader Blockchain Commons audience & patrons.

We are currently leveraging the native GitHub static website features of Jekyll remote which means that simply by committing the changes to the repo, the website is updated.

We are using one of the more sophisticated Jekyll themes called HydeJack Pro, however, it almost but doesn't quite work perfectly with remote-theme and in general requires some relatively sophisticated knowledge of Jekyll's various templating tools (significantly more complex than the default themes used by Github which are quite easy to understand). After paying for the license to HydeJack Pro the author refunded our payment when we asked for help with remote-theme and other advanced Jekyll features.

Thus we are in a situation with a difficult to configure and sometimes problematical static website and theme, and we are not able to get support and updates from the theme author.

In the long run we probably should change theme to one we can self-support, but in the meantime, here is a list of some updates that we need to do, and some our problems.

ChristopherA commented 3 years ago

/cc @shannona Could you look through the #SmartCustody website and list more todo items here? You don't need to fix, focus on capture of tasks. Feel free to directly edit the list in the comment above.

cprkrn commented 3 years ago

Is there any strong arguments against using the ones suggested by Github? Personally, I like Architect, both PDFs would fit nicely on the sidebar.

ChristopherA commented 3 years ago

The default themes from Github in general are fairly limiting, and there are some much better remote-theme capable themes.

shannona commented 3 years ago

I think this needs to be rescoped, as we've somewhat replaced the #SC site with our new projects page, and likely need to rebuild the #SC site as something more book-focused. So, let's open a new issue or add some TODO items when we decide what we want to do there.