[WIP] GitHub Pages site update

[Leland]

SUMMARY: Infrastructure "Modernize project main page."

Overhaul of the design and UX of the new CDDA site. I worked to style it similarly to the CDDA Discourse theme we're currently using. Have a look at what I've done with the place: https://leland.github.io/Blah/

To-do:

• Main styles
• Add screenshots
• Add SEO tags
• Style downloads section
• Style footer
• Separate home/page layouts
• Re-add "Contributions" and "Releases"

[kevingranade]

Wow, looks awesome!
I keep thinking I need to do something like this, then I remember I have no page styling skills :/

Idk if it's an oversight or unfinished, overriding the header has hidden the contributions and releases pages, is that intended?

[Soyweiser]

Well atm the releases page is more prominent than the download one (where you can get the experimental version) so that should be made a little bit more clear. But we shouldn't just remove the releases at all imho. (it does provide a nice way of seeing how far the project has come).

Looks good btw. nice touch in picking pretty varied screenshots, with the different stuff seen (one with self aware, and being on fire, showing those interfaces, other with the npcs and monsters).

[Leland]

Well atm the releases page is more prominent than the download one (where you can get the experimental version) so that should be made a little bit more clear. But we shouldn't just remove the releases at all imho. (it does provide a nice way of seeing how far the project has come).

Yup, completely agreed. I'm going to be sprucing up the download section, adding links to download the current Release version alongside the current experimental ones. I'll most likely add a "Releases" changelog link there.

nice touch in picking pretty varied screenshots

Thanks dude! That was my intent. Tried to show some different things without getting spoiler-y. I may add a few more and may possibly move it to a slider as well.

[codemime]

I may add a few more and may possibly move it to a slider as well.

Deathmobiles (or any vehicles whatsoever), they worth a glimpse.

[ZhilkinSerg]

Add some gif animation maybe?

[Leland]

I'll add a couple more screenshots but future ones can just be added via PR :)

[ZhilkinSerg]

Shouldn't http://www.cataclysmdda.org/ redirect to https://cataclysmdda.org/?

[BorkBorkGoesTheCode]

Is Google Analytics necessary?

[Leland]

Well, it's not configured at all so it wouldn't be on. But I highly recommend that we do configure at some point, anonymized analytics are awesome

[Faalagorn]

And what about http://www.cataclysmdda.com/ – is it still being used?

[kevingranade]

No, that's a dead site that will either go away, or if I acquire the domain it'll redirect to cataclysmdda.org

[ZhilkinSerg]

Releases page (https://cataclysmdda.org/releases/) should be update with Android Tiles build download link (http://dev.narc.ro/cataclysm/jenkins-latest/Android/Tiles/)

[kevingranade]

Idle for ~half a year, feel free to reopen.