Planning: Website - Githubissues

andi3 commented 9 years ago

This is the meta-issue tracking the progress on the Emma Website and pointing to sub-issues.

Technologies

We the following choice of technologies.

Backend Frameworks

I am very familiar with the YII framework (PHP), but I also worked at some projects with the Play (JAVA) and spring boot (JAVA) frameworks. Are there any preferences?? I think a java framework would be more suitable for our purpose (invoking the emma plans with java).

~~YII (PHP)~~
~~Play (Java/Scala)~~
~~Spring (Java)~~
Jekyll (HTML / Markdown)
Frontend CSS frameworks
Foundation
~~Bootstrap / Bootswatch~~
~~Material UI~~
Palettes
1. Variant A
  Fonts
2. Try using one of these 8 fonts for the logo

<link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Norican|Pacifico|Courgette|Cookie|Niconne|Satisfy|Damion|Berkshire+Swash' rel='stylesheet' type='text/css'>

Tasks

[x] @aalexandrov invite @andi3 to the Emma resources Dropbox folder
[x] create tutorial out of ipython (begin emma project setup)
[x] check for typesetting layout for text flow & Scala code, look at Symfony Doc

asteriosk commented 9 years ago

Backend: I guess PHP will complicate things a bit more than a JVM based backend. So: Spring or Play. Spring is trustworthy and @aalexandrov has used it before; Play looks really cool. Anyway, we will only need the backend later - after we have a website and we have to build the Scala interpreter. I'd go with Play when we need to.

Frontend: +1 bootstrap. Plays great with Jekyll - I use it for a couple of my own websites.

andi3 commented 9 years ago

So you plan to create a static website?

asteriosk commented 9 years ago

I'd make a static one with bootstrap at first. Apart from the interactive Scala shell, everything else can be static. We can simply edit html/MD files and push to a repository, then publish on the web server (or just use github pages). AFAIK Spark, Flink, Scala, etc. use static websites on which everybody can just easily contribute.

What do you think?

andi3 commented 9 years ago

Jeah, OK... i never worked with github pages before. But I'm fine with that.

asteriosk commented 9 years ago

We've built Stratosphere and Flink's websites with Jekyll and bootstrap. If you need a place to start, just check one of the following repositories: Stratosphere: https://github.com/stratosphere/stratosphere.github.io Mine: https://github.com/asteriosk/web Flink: https://github.com/uce/flink-web

You could use mine, for instance. You only need to change (or delete) the main.css and theme.css and update the files to a more recent bootstrap.

Check Jekyll - you'll love it! Then, hosting on github pages under our domain name is very easy.

If you need any help, come by my office!

aalexandrov commented 9 years ago

+1 for Bootstrap with a Bootswatch generated theme, should lower the barrier of entry for new contributors.

I agree with @asteriosk: the website can be static for the first iterations.

For the demo, I guess it would make things easier if we have a Scala-based JVM, so I'm leaning towards Play. @andi3: can you open a separate planning meta-issue for the demo?

andi3 commented 9 years ago

First draft for the homepage: screencapture-localhost-4000-1435059704488