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Bellevue Linux User Group

Welcome to the Bellevue Linux User Group transition web site.

This site is presently hosted at Dreamhost.

Contents will vary as the group works towards building a web site that meets multiple objectives:

  1. Display user group meeting times and places.

  2. Summarize previous meeting notes in blog-like fashion. Indeed by updating this site at least monthly we offer interesting information back to the Linux community.

  3. About BELUG.

  4. Create compelling content to attract new members and invigorate the group. We want the group to be around in 20 years.

  5. The site supports HTTPS. That's done with a click in the Dreamhost panel, enabling Let's Encrypt.

  6. Address Search Engine Optimization (SEO). We want Linux users to find our site easily.

  7. Do we want a robots.txt file at the root of our domain?

  8. RSS feed?

  9. Aim for a site high rating from Google Lighthouse.

  10. Determine an attractive theme. This site needs to look great.

  11. The site should be responsive, that is, look good on both small screens and large ones.

  12. The site should load quickly. Test this using the web browser extension Sitespeed Report.

  13. No JavaScript out of respect for our site visitors who don't want to run unsigned third party code on their computer.

  14. Settle on a static site generator. Presently we're looking at:

  15. Ghost

  16. Hugo
  17. Jekyll and
  18. mkdocs
  19. However with Pandoc the universal document converter we can do this in one line:

bash pandoc index.md -s -o index.html

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