[SeasonOfDocs] Website for TheGoodDocsProject

[Jo Cook]

OK cool, but I've never had a problem setting up a custom domain on GitHub,
personally?

Jo

On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, 22:05 Kyle Lobo, <kylelobo11898 at gmail.com> wrote:

> To deploy a website on Netlify, all we need is a GitHub repo (which is
> also the case with GitHub pages). Changes made on the GitHub repo are
> automatically deployed to the Netlify website. Also, setting up custom
> domains is really easy in Netlify.
>
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 2:02 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> I agree up to a point but with GitHub, all we require for people to be
>> involved either contributing to the website or the templates is one GitHub
>> account, whereas if we go with a different service we're increasing the
>> barriers to participation.
>>
>> Jo
>>
>> On Sun, 21 Jul 2019, 21:27 Kyle Lobo, <kylelobo11898 at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I personally feel like we won't be needing comments, forms (Google forms
>>> ftw), chatbots, survey results or video streaming. Also,
>>> if we are planning to use a static hosting service such as GitHub pages,
>>> I'd recommend we use something like Netlify instead of GitHub pages.
>>>
>>> Regards,
>>> Kyle
>>>
>>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 1:08 AM Sanket Totewar <sanket at totewar.com>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Quick question guys. Have we finalized on GitHib pages or open to using
>>>> a content management system (CMS) such as Wordpress or Drupal?
>>>>
>>>> I reckon in the near future, we may want to allow SSL, subdomains,
>>>> comments, forms, chatbots, survey results, video streaming, and
>>>> downloadables, etc. on the project website. So while it's great to add a
>>>> readme.md on the code that we host on GitHub, I personally believe we
>>>> should move to a CMS. Here's a website I put together last year in less
>>>> than two hours using Wordpress: https://www.totewar.com/
>>>>
>>>> If we ever create an API, it would make it easier for us to host
>>>> swagger documentation using a front end such as slate on an endpoint of our
>>>> choice. Here's something I put up 5 years ago:
>>>> https://www.contentstack.com/docs/apis/content-management-api/
>>>>
>>>> I'm happy to pay for the costs. Would recommend purchasing from Google
>>>> Domains as they're far better than GoDaddy and others. We could use the AWS
>>>> free tier to host for free for up to a year and get free SSL and content
>>>> delivery using Cloudflare. Do we have a budget committee or a nominated
>>>> treasurer?
>>>>
>>>> I'd love to be more involved in this part of the project but I want to
>>>> hear your thoughts first. :)
>>>>
>>>> Regards,
>>>> Sanket
>>>>
>>>> On Mon, Jul 22, 2019 at 3:48 AM Jo Cook <jo.k.cook at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi Felicity,
>>>>>
>>>>> There's a list of supported themes here:
>>>>> https://pages.github.com/themes/. Some are better than others!
>>>>>
>>>>> For uk.osgeo.org we use https://github.com/orderedlist/minimal which
>>>>> is, as it says, extremely minimal but it holds up well. We use an
>>>>> additional element to automatically render csv files as tables, but that
>>>>> has slipped my mind for the moment.
>>>>>
>>>>> URLs- thegooddocsproject.org does seem to be available. I would be
>>>>> happy to pay the cost of that domain if we want to go for it (the first
>>>>> place I saw has it at £15.99 which is not a massive outlay).
>>>>>
>>>>> Regards
>>>>>
>>>>> Jo
>>>>>
>>>>> On Sun, Jul 21, 2019 at 1:14 AM Felicity Brand <
>>>>> felicitybrand at gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi gang,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I've been experimenting with github pages to make a website.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Here is the repo:
>>>>>> https://github.com/thegooddocs/thegooddocs.github.io
>>>>>>
>>>>>> This is the URL: https://thegooddocs.github.io/
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If anyone feels like hooking it up to Jekyll/Markdown whatever to
>>>>>> make it beautiful please jump in. Let me know if you have any access
>>>>>> issues. Also, it's just placeholder text I put on that page. Go ahead and
>>>>>> change it.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Are we going to pay for a custom domain to get a nicer URL?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers
>>>>>> Felicity
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
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