New website for BaCon

[Pjot]

All,

As some of you already may have noticed, the website for BaCon has changed.

After using the old website for more than 10 years, it was time to look for something new. And as I am not a website designer, I looked around for free website templates, but the vast majority of them seems to have a commercial intent.

Almost all those templates start with some screen-wide logo showing how wonderful this-or-that thing is the website is trying to sell. The colorful layouts with their oversized promotional pictures seem to have been designed for either 12-years olds or for people who are allergic to text

This very observation made me realize that, from functional point of view, the BaCon website mostly contains text. So, the new website has to show all that text, containing information, code and documentation. Therefore, the new BaCon website should behave like a Wiki, which allows easy editing of its contents.

This is how I discovered the power of Fossil SCM, which the BaCon project already uses for versioning control. But Fossil also includes a Wiki functionality. It can behave as a standalone website all by itself. And Fossil has even more: ticketing, forum, chat, statistics, a full RBAC administration - it can even skin the layout of the website the way you want it!

The new BaCon site now is designed fully in Markdown Wiki within Fossil, pointing to files in the current BaCon repo where possible, otherwise pointing to its Wiki pages. It also hosts the necessary files to download or required screenshots to display, all self-contained and never pointing to an external file repository.

The usual link for BaCon www.basic-converter.org will now redirect to the new website.

Any comments are welcome,

Best regards
Peter

PS made some more improvements.

[clasqm]

Looking good!

[Pjot]

Thanks!

Made some more changes, got the forum link right now, and added the option to skin the website to the main menu.

BR
Peter

[rikky]

Ja, this works super
I even made my own chiselapp.com/user/myplace.
But have not a clue about how to get anything up there..

Some examples do not work out of the box (yet).

I noticed that it is possible to donate some money for the bacon project via paypal.
Since nowadays life goes a lot better then a few years ago I tried to donate a bit..

But I get Paypal asking me this from my bank:

<sup>Hiermee kunnen we de komende 90 dagen, wanneer nodig, je bankrekeninggegevens bevestigen en saldi en transacties op je bankrekening bekijken.

We bewaren en gebruiken deze gegevens uitsluitend voor fraudepreventie en risicobeheer, en om ervoor te zorgen dat er genoeg geld is voor je PayPal-betalingen.
The hairs in my neck are standing straight up.

Besides, Paypal and Visa and Mastercard and shit do not even work (anymore) for a huge part of this world.
But then, for these people, baby-English is probably not the preferred program language.
Most of them even write in different characters like Chinese or Russian or Arabic etc.

Suppose I am on a vacation to Cuba.
Just to smoke some cigars.
and I want to thank you by buying you a beer.
How do I do that.?

So maybe it is a suggestion to put some coin addresses there as well.

 Rik.</sup>

[Pjot]

Hi rikky,

Thanks for your willingness to support the project!

But too bad Paypal tries to infringe your privacy. I never have seen this myself though. If this message would appear on me then I also would not proceed.

I will try to find some other support facility to link on the BaCon website, because that beer you promise me sounds really good!

Thanks,

Peter