[FM Discuss] new front page for FM

Tomi Toivio tomi at flossmanuals.net
Thu Oct 13 08:40:43 PDT 2016


I added some of the Finnish book details here:
https://gitlab.com/TomiToivio/fm_en_splash/blob/master/data/book_details.json

Errm... How to proceed with this?

2016-10-09 14:53 GMT+03:00 Mick <mick at flossmanuals.net>:

> Hi there,
>
> I'm doing some work on this for the next couple of hours so if anyone has
> a spare 30-60 mins you could really help out.
>
> I'll be in irc.freenode.net #flossmanuals
>
> Tomi, When you mean sites, I think that it would be good to have different
> pages showing when people go to either http://fi.flossmanuals.net and
> http://en.flossmanuals.net
> But I think they could easily share the same codebase and hosting.
>
> Linking to objavi isn't optimal as that server is sometimes down and it
> seems a bit heavy handed to use it to generate files each time someone
> downloads it.
>
> Tomi, why not have a look at the code and have a go at creating data files
> for the finnish manuals as let's see what we can come up with together. I
> don't think this will be a bit job. In fact this could be the perfect
> solution for fi.flossmanuals.net.
>
> Thanks
> Mick
>
>
> On 07/10/16 19:35, Tomi Toivio wrote:
>
> So separate language sites would still be needed, just for the pdf and
> epub files?
>
> What about just linking to Objavi: http://objavi.booktype.pro/
> data/books/audacityopas-en-2016.10.07-20.25.53.pdf and
> http://objavi.booktype.pro/data/books/audacityopas-
> en-2016.10.07-20.25.53.pdf
>
> And there are a few manuals which are only available in Finnish, so would
> the Splash page be multilingual?
>
> 2016-09-30 13:23 GMT+03:00 mick <mick at flossmanuals.net>:
>
>> Hi there,
>>
>> I've been talking about this on the FM admin but I want to cast the net
>> a bit wider.
>>
>> I've been doing some work on a simple FM splash page to link to manuals
>> in the new repository.
>>
>> It's a work in progress here
>> http://splash.flossmanuals.net/
>> and on gitlab here - https://gitlab.com/mickfuzz/fm_en_splash
>>
>> I'm looking for help to finish the adding the text details and creating
>> images for the books too and advice on the following.
>>
>> This is especially true if you are linked to a manual. What should the
>> short description, keywords and image be?
>>
>> This page introduces a way of filtering manuals by broad category, and
>> beyond Video, Graphics and Audio, I'm not sure how to best categorise
>> the other manuals in a very simple way so that there is only a handful
>> of options. Any advice would be great! I'm thinking of resorting to big
>> catch alls like "Internet", or "Communication".
>>
>> Just email back to the list with offers of help.
>>
>> many thanks
>> Mick
>>
>> Thanks
>> Mick
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