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0002 title: This Site
0003 name: site
0004 layout: default
0005 ---
0006
0007 {% include layouts/title.md %}
0008
0009 #### The Goal
0010 This website is been developed with the goal to support the software domain of the EIC community.
0011 Its mission, technology and design principles are different for the EIC User Group website and
0012 the Wikis used by the Working Groups to develop and share information that could change quite
0013 often. By contrast, this portal aims to provide reliable links to the code and repositories,
0014 curated and stable documentation and other resources necessary to advance the goals of the EIC
0015 in the software domain.
0016
0017 #### The Platform
0018 The following considerations are important for long-term viability of the site:
0019 * ease of maintenance
0020 * security
0021 * performance
0022 * portability
0023
0024 In order to meet these criteria this website relies on modern static
0025 website generator technology with the following features:
0026 * separation of the content (including text as well as numeric data and graphics) from the layout of individual pages as well as of the website as whole
0027 * management of potentially complex structured data without reliance on databases, by keeping data in JSON, YAML and CSV formats
0028 * flexible ways to filter, manipulate, modify and format the data to be included in the pages presented to the user
0029 * use of a highly readable and an easy-to-edit syntax for content creation (the so-called **Markdown** syntax)
0030
0031 To this end, the popular {% include navigation/findlink.md name='Jekyll' tag='Jekyll' %} website generator is used, with
0032 an additional toolkit {% include navigation/findlink.md name='Bootstrap' tag='*Bootstrap*' %} for optimal user experience.
0033 Both Jekyll and Bootstrap are free and open source.
0034
0035 #### Design and Implementation
0036 To learn about the design and conventions used on this site please see the
0037 {% include navigation/pagelink.md folder=site.about name='howto' tag='"How-to" page' %}.
0038 The code is available on GitHub in its own {% include navigation/findlink.md name='github_site' tag='repository' %}.
0039
0040
0041 #### Credits
0042 Information collected here is managed by the {% include navigation/findlink.md name='eic_software_drupal' tag='EIC software Group' %}. Design of this site was inspired by the {% include navigation/findlink.md name='hsf' tag='HEP Software Foundation' %} Web site.
0043 We are grateful to the authors and maintainers of the following technologies:
0044 * {% include navigation/findlink.md name='github_pages' tag='GitHub Pages' %}
0045 * {% include navigation/findlink.md name='Jekyll' %}
0046 * {% include navigation/findlink.md name='Liquid' %}
0047 * {% include navigation/findlink.md name='Bootstrap' %}
0048
