[Neuroimaging] Nipy.org new website needs a complete remake

[vanessa sochat]

Hi everyone,

I didn't get to finish this today and I need to bike home soon, but I
wanted to share with you what I'm working on (that I hope we can work on
together!) I wanted to make a design that was simple, but (will eventually)
have subtle details to make it really beautiful. Here are some notes:


   - I don't think a corporate design (with a banner) is appropriate for
   this, but rather a more "documentation-ish" style like read the docs.
   - I chose flask because (I think) we can freeze the content and then
   host on github pages, but I'm not sure. It worked for my initial try, but I
   didn't try re-freezing. I also chose it because it's in python, meaning you
   can do stuff with the packages as examples and render in the page.
   - Bootstrap
   - New blog posts are markdown, and are dropped in the blog folder
   - To add a new package, you just add it to the text file - it gets
   rendered automatically. If you want to add more detail, adding a page
   template with the name will over-ride this.
   - The logo snake has "snakey thoughts" that you can interact with :)

Here is a demo of the skeleton thus far (there is much to be done, but I
really need to go home and eat something)

http://www.vbmis.com/bmi/project/nipy/

and the code - please feel free to add notes / comments as issues, or
contribute!

https://github.com/vsoch/nipy

It's ok if you hate it, but I hope there is something here that we can work
with. If you do, no worries, I can use for something else (I dig making
these sort of things).

Best,

Vanessa

On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 6:46 AM, Eleftherios Garyfallidis <
garyfallidis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Gael, Vanessa and Ariel,
>
> Gael I think the previous e-mail thread was about moving the pages into
> github.io and not about the design, the technology or the content of
> nipy.org. This being the portal of all projects needs to communicate the
> ideas better and use libraries that can be used in other projects too.
> Hopefully also be as Pythonic as possible and as useful and attractive as
> possible.
>
> So, my point is that the new portal, although it has some nice ideas, for
> examle it is using bootstrap which allows for better and more responsive
> viewing
> from different devices, it is not ready for prime time. And it shouldn't
> be online with the form that is now. So, I would recommend to use the
> previous website with updated links to the new github pages until this one
> is in a better form.
>
> Now about the technology used for creating the website. From my
> understanding Ariel is using the default engine promoted by github which is
> jekyll which at the end is using bootstrap. But bootstrap can be used with
> sphinx and with pelican too which are both Python projects.
>
> So we could actually have two better options. For the portal we can use:
>
> a) Pelican which is an alternative of Octpress/Jekyll in Python. I used it
> to make my  own website and it is easy to use for creating static websites
> (like the portal). Link here http://garyfallidis.github.io and here
> https://github.com/Garyfallidis/website-dev . Pelican supports both
> markdown and restructuredtext.
>
> b) It is now possible to use Sphinx with bootstrap directly. See here
> https://readthedocs.org/projects/sphinx-bootstrap-theme/ and here
> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sphinx-bootstrap-theme/
> The option is possibly the best solution as we could just update our
> template engine (to use bootstrap) and continue using sphinx as before. But
> now we can use any template we want and have a much more responsive website.
>
> Ideally the portal should have a main theme and then the different
> projects would make some alterations to this theme to create their
> individual image. For example in Dipy our main colors are black and orange
> so we will alternate the theme so we can use mainly those colors is our
> website.
>
> Vanessa of course I am writing this e-mail because I am willing up to my
> capacity to help Ariel or anyone else who wants to improve the look and
> feel of the organization.
>
> Ariel in summary, I think the portal is not well designed right now and
> the content needs some more work before it is presented. I am happy to help
> and I think you will find it useful to have a look in the links that I have
> in this e-mail before we meet. In the meantime, I would strongly suggest to
> upload the old portal until we have something more solid. I hope this is
> okay.
>
> Cheers,
> Eleftherios
>
>
>
> On Sat, Jul 25, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Gael Varoquaux <
> gael.varoquaux at normalesup.org> wrote:
>
>> On Fri, Jul 24, 2015 at 08:57:48PM -0400, Eleftherios Garyfallidis wrote:
>> > It seems that nipy.org has recently changed. The previous page was much
>> > better from what we have now.
>>
>> I agree with you that the previous page was much better in term of design
>> (more colors, a more structured layout, and an image that looked like a
>> brain clearly visible) and of content (clear list of main projects and
>> subprojects).
>>
>> However, the change was advertised. I understand that you missed it: we
>> all have too much mails and too many things to do.
>>
>> I think that you could make proposals and maybe pull requests to shape
>> the website toward something that you like better. It would be great.
>>
>> Gaël
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Vanessa Villamia Sochat
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