The New elementary.io

A focused, minimum viable product (hence MVP) for a website that accompanied the release of elementary OS Freya.

Project Organization

• Issues for individual actionable items, or bugs i.e.:
  • Design home page
  • Implement home page
  • Add payment form
  • Fix link to Wired article
• Milestones for "releases" or overall steps, i.e.:
  • Single-page site
  • User Documentation
  • Journal
• Reviews Do all work in branches, then submit pull requests for review when ready
  • No dummy content in master, ever.
  • small diff is best diff
  • The reviewer is the gatekeeper. Be kind of a dick.

Architecture/Philosophies

• HTML, CSS, and JS
• Super simple PHP-based templating system
• No/minimal frameworks (keep it simple!)
• Graceful degradation (don't be held back by crappy browsers)
• Mobile-first

Templating System

• PHP-based
• Pages go in root as .php files
• Include _templates/sitewide.php, set any variables, then include $template['header']; (see code-of-conduct for an example) at top of page.
• include $template['footer']; at bottom of page.
• Page variables:
  • $page['title']
  • $page['description']
  • $page['author']

Code Style

It's important we keep the code style consistent across collaborators and editors. We are following the official elementary code style guidelines for this project.

For quick reference:

• 4 spaces for indentation (no tabs)
• Comma-separated CSS rules on separate lines
• Strip extra whitespace (on blank lines and ends of lines)

Simple Local Development

For simplicity a Vagrant file is included. To start you will need:

• Vagrant
• VirtualBox

Then simply run vagrant up.

For bypassing Vagrant you will need:

• A supported version of PHP
• php5-json
• php5-curl

Then inside the project directory, run php -S localhost:8000 router.php. Next, just navigate to http://localhost:8000/ to view the site.

Contributing

See guidelines for coding and translating.