FreeCAD Website Design

[AR795]

You would likely need a LAMP server. Are you using Linux? If yes it isn't all that hard to set up a LAMP server with Wiki installed. And to restrict it to localhost. Or to do that in a virtual machine by for example using VirtualBox. On Windows AFAIK there are packages you can use to provide WAMP in a rather straightforward way.

I am using windows currently. Unfortunately I don't know much about WAMP, but I will check it out and see if I can make progress.

[triplus]

They actually provide instructions:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:R ... on_Windows
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:I ... i_on_XAMPP

P.S. It likely looks a bit difficult. But the reality is you likely will be able to set it up in a hour or so.

[AR795]

They actually provide instructions:

https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:R ... on_Windows
https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Manual:I ... i_on_XAMPP

P.S. It likely looks a bit difficult. But the reality is you likely will be able to set it up in a hour or so.

Thanks for the links, I will check it out.

[yorik]

Also how would one test the changes, is it similar to the homepage, creating an temporary html file and linking it with the new css?

Yes I would do something like that I think (at least for this stage of design). Mediawiki does some complicated things such as merging and changing stuff (css etc...) on the fly, but that can be fixed later on. IIRC I made that theme by reusing another one and just tweaking it, so you might be able to simplify some things.

[AR795]

I did some initial testing and tried to replicate the wiki design in the screenshot. I have included a small portion of content from the wiki home for demonstration purposes only. There are many small bugs here and there but you can test it out: https://ar795.github.io/FreeCAD-Wiki-Demo/ and the source code which is simple html and css at the moment: https://github.com/AR795/FreeCAD-Wiki-Demo.

[yorik]

Nice!!!

[kkremitzki]

I did some initial testing and tried to replicate the wiki design in the screenshot. I have included a small portion of content from the wiki home for demonstration purposes only. There are many small bugs here and there but you can test it out: https://ar795.github.io/FreeCAD-Wiki-Demo/ and the source code which is simple html and css at the moment: https://github.com/AR795/FreeCAD-Wiki-Demo.

It looks good! It seems like the 'D' is cut off on 'FreeCAD Wiki' in the top left, though.

[Jee-Bee]

I loose "some" space through the sidebar... on safari osx compare current with you're design

[AR795]

Yes, there are a few problems, I will try to fix them.

A few changes:
- Reduced sidebar width.
- Changed logo style to fit better with the sidebar.

[yorik]

One thing that might be interesting: reduce the left menu, but give a bit more white space left and right of the text. I don't know about you guys, but I like having the lines of text a bit shorter, like in a book. In that optic, I like @AR795's current design...