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

[Bob Dougherty]

Hi Vanessa,

It looks great! Just a note on https: I know that github proper forces 
https, but github.io doesn't seem to. E.g., start on http: 
http://vsoch.github.io/nipy/ and it remains http (and then the embedded 
nbviewer works).

cheers,
bob



On 07/28/2015 02:50 PM, vanessa sochat wrote:
> Hi everyone,
>
> A quick update. I have never used github pages before, but was able to 
> work through the bugs of the freeze, and deploy the site to pages:
>
> https://vsoch.github.io/nipy
>
> A few other updates / notes:
>
>   * All content / links must be https. This means it's best to serve
>     most of our own css/js files, and embedded content that is not
>     https will not render (for example, click on the embedded nbviewer
>     post
>     <https://vsoch.github.io/nipy/pages/7-28-2015-embed-ipython/>, and
>     then inspect the browser to see the error)
>   * The above would be an issue for any github pages. To address this,
>     I figured out how to get syntax highlighting
>     <https://vsoch.github.io/nipy/pages/7-28-2015-embed-code/> so we
>     can code right in the markdown.
>   * I styled the blog roll. I'm sure with more posts we would want
>     some kind of pagination.
>   * I added a few posts showing how to embed other content type.
>   * The freezing process didn't grab the custom pages for some reason,
>     and it worked when I did this
>     <https://github.com/vsoch/nipy/blob/master/code/views.py#L46>. 
>     This would mean that adding a project, it would be required to
>     have a template for it. That comes down to copying a file and
>     renaming it to the project name.
>
> The process to update the pages is to basically:
>
>  1. Add a new .md file in the code/pages folder
>  2. python freeze.py
>  3. Push to the gh-pages branch
>
>
> Best,
>
> Vanessa
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 10:36 AM, vanessa sochat <vsochat at stanford.edu 
> <mailto:vsochat at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>
>     Hi Bob,
>
>     I think we are moving toward a solution that will make it very
>     easy to contribute content. Regardless of if we use jekyll, flask,
>     or something else, right now contributing a new package just means
>     adding a row to a tab separated file, and adding a new blog entry
>     means adding a new file to a folder (with very minimal
>     formatting). I think regardless of the solution that we will
>     choose, we are optimizing with this goal in mind, so you should
>     not worry.
>
>     Best,
>
>     Vanessa
>
>     On Tue, Jul 28, 2015 at 9:55 AM, Bob Dougherty <bobd at stanford.edu
>     <mailto:bobd at stanford.edu>> wrote:
>
>         I have to agree with Ariel on this. I think that any
>         additional barrier (no matter how small) will deter
>         contributors. Like Ariel, I'm not a web designer. For my
>         limited forays into web design I use docpad, because when I'm
>         in web-design mode I like to think in javascript, so a
>         js-based tool seemed to make sense. I don't have any desire to
>         learn (no matter how trivial) yet another tool. If all I want
>         to do is contribute content, I just want to edit some markdown
>         and be done with it. Ariel has laid out some very good reasons
>         to use jekyll. I haven't seen any similarly compelling reasons
>         not to use it. Is there any practical advantage to the
>         alternatives?
>
>
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>     Vanessa Villamia Sochat
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