[postgis-devel] Website Redo change to Hugo

[Martin Davis]

The GRASS theme seems to have a lot of nice features for more advanced
layout (e.g. right sidebars, left-side sticky menus, image placement, and
no doubt other cool stuff.).  Perhaps we can use that theme? With some
suitable design tweaks, of course.  It is nice to give the main docs and
the website some similar design cues (e.g. like header background)

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 11:28 AM Martin Davis <mtnclimb at gmail.com> wrote:

> Great to have the website switched to a modern maintainable platform.
>
> Not sure it's a great idea to keep the 2-column layout though.  It doesn't
> seem to be responsive, and I find it visually a bit confusing.
>
> On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 10:15 AM Regina Obe <lr at pcorp.us> wrote:
>
>> I've been working on a website redo.
>>
>> Main reason is our current https://postgis.net is kinda broken because it
>> relies on a PHP CMS framework that is no longer supported and doesn't work
>> on newer PHP.
>>
>> That said I settled on Hugo seeing the success of grass.osgeo.org and
>> libgeos.org.  It also turned out to be very easy to convert our existing
>> content to that since our posts and pages are all in markdown already.
>>
>> The new site is staged at:
>>
>> https://staging.postgis.net
>>
>> I plan to move all the RFCs over there once done to the link at the top
>> called RFCs.  I've moved the first 2 already
>>
>> https://staging.postgis.net/rfcs/
>>
>> I still have to fix some of the formatting of old posts and verify the rss
>> feed is as we had it before so it works as it did with plant.postgis.net,
>> planet.postgresql.org, and planet.osgeo.org.
>>
>> Feel free to comment and provide suggestions.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Regina
>>
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