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codeforamerica / brigade-alpha

The old Code for America Brigade website. The new site at https://github.com/codeforamerica/brigade
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Build a better looking graph on /projects #64

Closed ondrae closed 9 years ago

ondrae commented 10 years ago

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The graph of project activity is kind of ugly and doesn't have a legend right now. It is a graph of commits per week for the last year. screen shot 2014-08-01 at 12 26 56 pm

It would look better if it was all on one line. It might look better if it was removed. I'm not sure it adds much. The recent commits number is more useful I think

steve-whetstone commented 9 years ago

making things loo pretty with css and html and javascript is something I'm good at. I don't know much about github or the mechanics of what you need though. Normally, I'd look at the html page in firebug and copy it and then edit the copy and send some html, .js, .css assets for you to use. I guess I need help to help you.

ondrae commented 9 years ago

Hi @steve-whetstone

I'm trying to just make http://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/projects/ look good. (code).

I did the same thing again but simpler over at http://codeforsanfrancisco.org/projects/. (code)

The inspiration comes from http://opengovhacknight.org/projects.html and http://projects.betanyc.us/. I also like the look a function of http://www.govcode.org/

The Brigade projects page should show off the most recently updated projects from our volunteer Brigades. We should also be able to choose a brigade from the menu.

An advance feature would be to have the menu also update the url, so like http://www.codeforamerica.org/brigade/projects/Code-for-San-Franciso would just show the SF Brigade projects.

ondrae commented 9 years ago

GitHub is great and a must if you want to work on many open source projects with others. You can do a lot just from the website itself. You can use GitHub for Mac or use the command line too.

In simplest terms: