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 [[!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. Likely to do with the co-opting of h1 
+exclusively for breadcrumbs ... 
+
+### 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
+
+
+###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
+    |   |-- wiki-cgi: CGI scripts for the wiki
+    |   \-- writable: directory containing files writable by scripts
+    |                 dotfiles such as .bash_history are symlinked here
+    |-- git
+    |   |-- sipb-www.git: the master repo; other repos are submodules
+    |   |-- wiki.git: home of the wiki content as markdown, etc
+    |   \-- ikiwiki.git: the repo for SIPB's local variation on ikiwiki
+    |-- checkout: automatically updated checkout of sipb-www.git
+    |-- 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
+    |-- planet: Source code and templates for Planet SIPB
+    |   `-- sipb/basic: Our configuration
+    |-- src
+    |   \-- cgit: where cgit was built from (not actively changed)
+    |-- 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
+    |       `-- _wiki-cgi -> ../../Scripts/wiki-cgi
+    \-- web_scripts_tmp: old directory around to keep trac up-to-date. Should
+                         vanish sooner or later
+