herbert.gd

An archive website for the graphic design and visual communication department at Bauhaus-University Weimar, Germany. Made with Kirby CMS.

Contributions welcome

If you want to contribute to the website design and functionality or fix problems, feel free to get in touch, open an issue or create a pull request. Read more below at branching.

If you want to contribute to the page content, please get in touch with the editors aka. the staff of the graphic design chair at Marienstraße 1, Weimar. Read more at herbert.gd/info.

System requirements for development

• php 8.1
• imagemagick
• sass
• npm

Development setup

Clone repo including submodules

git clone git@github.com:moritzebeling/herbert.gd.git
cd hebert.gd

Install dependencies

composer install
npm install

Updates

composer update
npm update

Run website locally

To run a php server on localhost:8000

composer start

Compile sass on save

sass --watch --style=compressed assets/scss:assets/css

Compile js

npm run dev

Build for production

npm run build

Branching and PRs

master branch is only for the currently stable live version. Development happens within develop, which is the only branch ever to be pulled to master. If you are fixing an issue or working on a new feature, please start from develop and call your new branch yymmdd-issue-name or yymmdd-feature-name. Send pull requests only to develop.

Stack and tools used

• php
• imagemagick
• Kirby (v3) CMS
• Bettersearch Kirby plugin for an enhanced search algorithm
• sass CSS Preprocessor
• Swiper.js Image slider gallery
• Lazysizes Image lazyloading

When deploying to a FTP server

When deploying this website to the target host, please exclude the following from upload to prevent yourself from overriding critical files and avoid cluttering:

• .lock
• *.sess
• .git
• .license
• .gitignore
• .gitmodules
• .editorconfig
• node_modules
• .DS_Store
• media
• content
• site/accounts
• site/sessions