[BozemanLUG] New www.montanalinux.org website

[Mike Stone]

Looks good on my phone Scott!

On Mon, Feb 29, 2016, 9:35 AM Scott Dowdle <dowdle at montanalinux.org> wrote:

> Greetings,
>
> After about 10 years or so... www.montanalinux.org has been refreshed
> with a new content management system.  The old site (now
> old.montanalinux.org) runs Drupal 4.  The new site runs Drupal 8.
>
> While it might be "new" it isn't necessarily "improved".  One of the big
> new features in Drupal 8 is "responsiveness"... which is a fancy way of
> saying that the site should scale well to most common screen sizes
> including smaller, mobile screens.  HOWEVER, I have a lot of video content
> from the old site and they don't have (by default) any video management
> stuff so when moving over some of the original content... I'm noticing that
> the videos do not auto-resize and are fairly static.  There is probably a
> way to fix or improve that but I haven't figured it out yet.  Also, I've
> only copied over about 5% or less of the original content... but will be
> doing more over time.
>
> Anyway... the new site isn't broken like the old one had become and the
> account system is functional... and I have not tried to migrate accounts
> from the old... so if you have an account in the old system, you'll need to
> create a new account in the new system.  If you had any content on the old
> system, feel free to add it back to the new system... but I do recommend
> you copy and paste the create time/date from the old to the new so the
> content has the same creation time as it had before.  That's what I'm doing
> on all content I migrate over.
>
> Also, the comments system should be functional on the new site but those
> things can be a pain to keep the bad robots away from.
>
> In any event, I haven't gotten it all figured out yet but that hasn't
> stopped me from deploying it.
>
> If you didn't have an account in the past, I recommend you sign up for
> one... if you have any desire to share your Linux experience by making
> occasional posts to the site.  It has a reasonable WYSIWYG HTML editor now
> so adding content is much easier.
>
> Anyway, I'm rambling now so I'll stop here.
>
> TYL,
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