bhanditz / rollercoaster

A simple site featuring good tablet-optimized site concepts and design patterns

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Rollercoaster is a site showcasing good-looking tablet-optimized sites, best practices and interesting design patterns.

The concept is simple: a screenshot and a few lines of commentary per site.

Visitors can quickly browse between featured sites with the left-right arrows or with a swipe gesture.

Contributing

Contributing is easy! Give us a shout at @odevrel on Twitter and share the URL of a site you think we should review.

If you want to contribute your own reviews, just follow these steps:

1. Fork this repository.
2. Take a screenshot of the site you want to write about, save it as JPG or PNG, give it a sensible name and place it in the postimages folder.
3. Navigate to _posts and create a new Markdown file. It must start with 3 lines of YAML metadata:
   • ---
   • layout: post → just copy this as is
   • name: Site Name → enter the full name of the site.
   • image: sitename.png → replace sitename.png with the name of the image you've placed in the postimages folder.
   • website: http://www.sitename.com/ → the URL of the website you've reviewed
   • copy: © 2013 site owner etc. → the copyright notice on the website you've reviewed. Don't include if there is no copyright notice shown.
   • ---
4. Below the YAML metadata, you write your review in Markdown syntax, and save the file with a file name in the following format: yyyy-mm-dd-sitename.md
5. Once all that is done, do a pull request to get it added to master.

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Image optimization tips

For consistency purposes, screenshots should be 1024x768px in portrait mode, and taken using Coast by Opera.

In order to determine which file size is smaller, save the screenshot as JPG (80% quality), run it through ImageOptim. This is very important!

Running a local copy of the site

If you want to run a local copy of the site, you'll need Jekyll. You can start the site by running jekyll serve --watch --baseurl= from terminal, and going to http://localhost:3333/ in your web browser. Preview on mobile and tablet is possible too: just figure out your local IP address through ifconfig in Terminal, enter it in your mobile or tablet browser, add :3333/ and off you go.