Re: [Antora Website] home page experiment

[David Jencks <da...@gmail.com>]

I’ve updated this with Willes’ header PR which I think looks really nice.

David Jencks

> On Jul 23, 2020, at 11:34 AM, David Jencks <da...@gmail.com> wrote:
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> At least two people (David Blevins and Cesar Hernandez) have expressed the idea that the “static site” should not be generated by Antora.  I’ve been wondering why, and what the “static site” might be.  The home page of the current site seems like the most obvious candidate, so I decided to learn a little bit of css…
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> Investigating the source of the current home page, it appears to be a hodgepodge of outdated table layout and scripts and css whose origin is not clear to me.  Understanding what it does I found rather difficult.
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> I’ve replicated most of the features of the current home page in an .adoc page rendered by Antora.  I learned enough css for now, so I didn’t pursue an exact replica.  I imagine that for someone who knows a reasonable amount of css finishing the synchronization would be easy.
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> Present:
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> - Layout and images
> - general behavior of hover animation
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> Missing:
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> - clipping on background image
> - “typewriter” effect on subtitle (personally this reminds me of a “blink” tag….)
> - specific details of hover animation
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> I find the .adoc source very clear about the structure of the resulting page, and the css is really quite short and to the point.  I can easily understand and work with both.
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> What is better about the current situation?
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> Preview:  https://tomee-preview.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/ <https://tomee-preview.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/>
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> branches “home-page” at 
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> - tomee-antora <https://github.com/djencks/tomee-antora> (playbook)
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> - tomee-antora-ui <https://github.com/djencks/tomee-antora-ui>
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> — css: src/css/home-doc.css, src/css/home.css (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/djencks/tomee-antora-ui/home-page/src/css/home-doc.css <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/djencks/tomee-antora-ui/home-page/src/css/home-doc.css>)
> — layout: src/layouts/home-page.hbs, src/partials/home-body.hbs
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> - tomee-site-generator <https://github.com/djencks/tomee-site-generator>
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> — tomee/modules/ROOT/pages/home-page.adoc  (https://raw.githubusercontent.com/djencks/tomee-site-generator/home-page/tomee/modules/ROOT/pages/home-page.adoc <https://raw.githubusercontent.com/djencks/tomee-site-generator/home-page/tomee/modules/ROOT/pages/home-page.adoc>)
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> David Jencks
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