website hosting

[val-pf]

Should we have a server to host our website?
Discussed suggestions: use Jetstream to host, use wordpress to make the website easier to access and modify.
@dnsnell would be willing to donate some time.
Need to discuss in a larger group and website meeting @resbazaz/website-team

[julianpistorius]

Do you remember the reasons for having a server to host the website @val-pf? It sounds like maybe it was to make the website easier to modify. In which case I'd change the issue title to something like "Problem: The website is difficult to modify for non-web developers", and provide more context in the issue body.

And does this issue make more sense in the website repository?

[val-pf]

This was a discussion also including @alex-r-bigelow . I think what you say @julianpistorius makes sense, the issue is that the website is difficult to modify for non-developers.
I believe this is also from pre-nuke old website times, before we had actually decided on a switch, so maybe close? @alex-r-bigelow please weigh in!

[alex-r-bigelow]

+1 for closing this issue

1. I agree there are still usability challenges w.r.t. editing the site; the README still needs work! But there's an open issue for that: Include instructions on contributing to website website#42
2. A CMS would be nice someday... but I'm not aware whether any exist for Quarto? Additionally, markdown + git are pretty fundamental concepts that I think, as a group, we'd want to prioritize teaching anyway?

[julianpistorius]

Regarding CMS, I made a PR that allows using GitHub Codespaces to edit the site in VS Code with preview using Quarto CLI: resbazaz/website#84

Would need documentation, but in the meantime this is a good start: https://quarto.org/docs/get-started/hello/vscode.html