build homepage for ecosimr.org

[emhart]

I think what might work best would be to build a simple home page for ecosimr.org. It can hold a brief introduction to the package via a quick start guide and some links to relevant literature. Then we can maintain a separate domain for the docs, like docs.ecosimr.org. Does this sound like overkill? I'm essentially imagining a structure like ggplot2.org and docs.ggplot2.org.

[emhart]

@ngotelli What do you think of this strategy? I'm not sure we actually would have that much to put on a homepage at the moment. We could just put docs.ecosimr.org as ecosimr.org.

[ngotelli]

Hi @emhart . Sorry to be out of touch. I would like a homepage posting for my personal website because so many people come to it. I really like the static docs look, so is there a way I can build a page with that? It would be good if it could show your quickstart, just to tempt non-R users to take the plunge. I'd also like to be able to distribute the zipped file of the "old" EcoSim, just to preserve the legacy version.

I will try to finish off the documentation by the end of this week.

[emhart]

Hi @ngotelli

I'll whip something up with rmarkdown because it seems that it would be just one page. I'll use the CSS and start a new repo. As far as where to host the webpage, you can host a version there, or just redirect to ecosimr.org from whatever page you want. Whichever you prefer. Finally, I think that we should host a binary of the old ecosim on either zenodo.org or figshare.org and give it a DOI so it's citable.

[emhart]

Here's a quick work up @ngotelli you can see it here http://ecosimr.org . The page is built using markdown so you can easily build the main content. Just make changes here and then build to html. https://github.com/GotelliLab/ecosimrWeb

[emhart]

Web page is up at ecosimr.org