geeknight's Introduction

Geek Night Kampala

Development

Using nanoc for static site generation. Jekyll/Octopress are hard-coded for blogging, while Nanoc is much simpler, doesn't take any assumptions and allows to build whatever type of content (not just blogs).

To start developing,

Clone this repository
Forget about whatever present in the root folder
Worry only about the generator folder
cd generator and do bundle install. You'll need RVM + Ruby 2.0
Make changes (see below folder structure). Mostly you'll be dealing with generator/content
Run nanoc to compile the website
Run nanoc view to start a server and browse to localhost:3000

For ease, there is a Guardfile. You can run bundle exec guard, it will keep watching for changes and re-compile the site whenever any file is changed.

Folders of interest

generator - this is the main source code, rest are all generated source code that can be ignored
generator/assets - contains all assets
generator/assets/app.sass - contains the main stylesheet
generator/assets/img/speakers - contains speaker images
generator/content - content for each geek night
generator/layouts - layouts for default and archive versions
generator/Rules - routing rules

Front-End Development

Pure HTML/CSS/Javascript website. No JQuery.
Used HTML5 Boilerplate to generate the skeleton.
Used colourlovers.com for the color swatches.
Using SASS and Foundation for all the Styling.
Icon fonts were generated and downloaded from Fontello. Only icons from the Modern Pictogram set were used for consistency.

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