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Sverchok
http://nortikin.github.io/sverchok/
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http://nortikin.github.io/sverchok/ landing page redesign #491

Closed zeffii closed 6 years ago

zeffii commented 9 years ago

edit: now: http://nortikin.github.io/sverchok/

As we now have a growing collection of nicely formatted documentation, it's time (I think) to put the Sverchok site in the spotlight too and consider how to do an upgrade/redesign.

Prelim tests: http://sverchok.neocities.org/

portnov commented 9 years ago

You can have an "archive" page with all old news, articles, release notes and so on.

zeffii commented 9 years ago

I am more familiar with GAE and Flask, for the implementation of web pages with Python, but it would be nice to have the site run entirely in .js so it can be hosted on github.

Yes, if people have javascript disabled that's a problem, but hopefully it's a minority. (2%?). http://stackoverflow.com/questions/121203/how-to-detect-if-javascript-is-disabled (and solution) url/path changes in combo with history.pushState http://medialize.github.io/URI.js/about-uris.html http://diveintohtml5.info/history.html

portnov commented 9 years ago

For real site, i still think Google indexing is an important thing. And as far as i know, google's crawler does not have js enabled...

yanivg101 commented 9 years ago

I think that if you will add a forum so people can ask "How to make...?" that will be wonderful. when you search in Google you can find the answer too.

zeffii commented 9 years ago

First optimize content, then optimize implementation with respect to automated indexing

zeffii commented 9 years ago

@yanivg101 Would a simple second repo called 'Sverchok_Community" where the issue tracker is used exclusively for how to threads be OK?. Google / Github indexes these quite well, and might make more sense with our the total user count being low.

yanivg101 commented 9 years ago

If you can go here from the main page and have it on iframe etc. I think it will be good. but when you reach site like Github, it's not so friendly to usual user that afraid from too much technical info.

zeffii commented 9 years ago

A forum may or may not happen soon, but building our own community scene would be very nice. BlenderArtists tends to be a little distracting because there's so much content unrelated to computational design, and the forum software is more suitable for the year 2004 (the more I use it the more I start to get disappointed by it).

There are the VK and Google+ pages but even that community has very few active contributors. My advice if you want 'how tos' ask here in the issues and we'll tag it as a how to. One of us is bound to answer. I notice that a lot of people are more technical than they think and will accept the subtle renaissance of minimalism that github provides. In the end the only thing most people want is an answer to their problem, or the feeling that their problem has been heard and someone has attempted to answer it .

portnov commented 9 years ago

Well, personally i'd prefer a traditional forum or maybe even just a mailing list :) But maybe i'm just tooo old-fashioned :) Sverchok's communities in vk and G+ and BA are split: there are some people here, some people there... It would be good to have one place to gather.

yanivg101 commented 9 years ago

It's easy to install forum like this: http://www.mybb.com. we use it on Blender Israel Forum (http://forum.blender.org.il)

zeffii commented 9 years ago

hah, it's bit hacky but it's possible to link directly to Lessons , Manual ..etc. There's a same-site redirect and some ugly js code, just to get the effect. If user gh-pages had allowed custom 404 this would be much easier. but whatever.

I will now continue to tweak CSS and design of the page. (That's what the thread is about)

zeffii commented 9 years ago

Nothing to see here just placeholder stuff. lorenztest800300t

nortikin commented 6 years ago

site todo:

I will land new site on my site, but we should migrate it to io. After upper todo checks, change links in:

also i should keep data in github basically Any thoughts?