[[!meta title="The SIPB Website"]]
+[[!toc ]]
## Design
* The design is equivalent to the old design, just with the design trends of the current time (alternatively, built in the 21st century, but without sufficient design clue)
-* Too much wasted space on the left side
-* Too much wasted space on the top
-* Too grey
-* Blocks of color are gratuitous and jarring
-* Gradients are gratuitous
-* A design that could be reused for other websites with minor color tweaking would be nice (like the Debathena stylesheet)
+* What do we put on the right side?
* Rectangles and straight lines make it look angular and stark
-* The design is too generic; needs more SIPB personality, so that another website couldn't just be swapped in
+* The design is too generic; needs more SIPB personality, so that another website couldn't just be swapped in (Define SIPB personality)
* Consider rebranding possibilities (e.g. making fuzzball more "internal" like octocat on github, developing new logos, etc.) (publicity opportunities)
## Todo
* git push (scripts-git, or gitosis on an XVM)
-* commit zephyrs for git (wiki.git and ikiwiki.git)
-* breadcrumbs style
* make style usable for other SIPB sites?
* make title == alt on images
* sipb-door widgets
* other widgets
* migrate sipb.mit.edu/doc
* usability tests
+* table of contents doesn't work
+
+### Done
+* commit zephyrs for git (ikiwiki.git)
+* breadcrumbs style
+* add a grumpy fuzzball favicon to replace the ikiwiki one.
+ * feel free to make a better one if you like ~fawkes
+* all those other things we did before putting our todo here...
+
+## How Things Work
+
+(this is by fawkes's understanding, it may be wrong)
+
+###When a request comes in:
+ a connection comes in for sipb.mit.edu which via a hack in MIT DNS gets directed instead to PENGUIN-LUST.MIT.EDU. If its on ports 80, (443?), or 444 it gets passed off to scripts (where it's handled by b-m or b-k, whichever).
+
+The DocumentRoot for sipb.mit.edu is `/afs/sipb.mit.edu/project/sipb-www/web_scripts/sipb`. This directory contains a `.htaccess` file that causes most URIs to be served out of `web_scripts/sipb/_wiki`, a symlink to `../../Scripts/wiki`. This directory's contents are static files generated by ikiwiki
+after each edit.
+
+###For development's sake:
+
+####How Do I make edits?
+If you want to just edit contents, use the web interface (edit links at bottom of page) or "git clone git+ssh://sipb-www@scripts.mit.edu/mit/sipb-www/git/wiki", make your edits in the mdwn, etc.
+
+When you commit, ikiwiki should get automatically republished as HTML.
+
+To work on the code surrounding the wiki in addition to the wikitext, clone the superrepo:
+
+ $ git clone git+ssh://sipb-www@scripts.mit.edu/mit/sipb-www/git/sipb-www
+ $ cd sipb-www
+ $ git submodule update --init
+
+
+####Detailed Locker Layout
+
+ .
+ |-- Scripts
+ | |-- wiki: the published HTML that you are being served right now
+ | \-- writable: directory containing files writable by scripts
+ | dotfiles such as .bash_history are symlinked here
+ |-- arch
+ | \-- amd64_fedora9_scripts: binaries related to publishing ikiwiki
+ |-- bin, lib, sbin: links into arch
+ |-- man: a link into arch, ikiwiki manpages.
+ | add sipb-www to get them into MANPATH
+ |-- share -> arch/amd64_fedora9_scripts/share
+ | |-- ikiwiki: where some basic things are pulled from during build
+ | |-- locale: i18n things we aren't using
+ | `-- man: where the manpages really live
+ |-- ikiwiki: think of it as like a mix of etc and build
+ | |-- cgitrc : configuration for cgit
+ | |-- ikiwiki.setup: configuration for ikiwiki
+ | `-- src: where ikiwiki checks out wiki.git for building
+ |-- src
+ | |-- cgit: where cgit was built from (not actively changed)
+ | |-- ikiwiki.git: the git repository representing the SIPB
+ | | variation on ikiwiki.
+ | `-- old.ikiwiki: irrelevant
+ |-- web_scripts
+ | |-- cgit: what you look at when you click on "History"
+ | |-- doc: the old Trac wiki
+ | |-- radiant: old and irrelevant
+ | |-- rtfm: contains an index.html identical to rtfm.html below
+ | `-- sipb: the document root for sipb.mit.edu
+ | `-- _wiki -> ../../Scripts/wiki
+ |-- web_scripts_tmp: old directory around to keep trac up-to-date. Should
+ | vanish sooner or later
+ `-- wiki.git: this is where all the content lives as markdown.
+ Clone this if you hate web interfaces.
+
+
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