Get involved with Web Development

This is a challenging task to be able to have edgy paragraphs on the MAYO website.

We will need to create our own subtheme as explained in this document: https://www.drupal.org/node/2681121#comment-11087039 

Which means copying this subtheme and making our own.

This involves using a variety of fairly complex tools that need to be included as part of creating a new subtheme. You can read about it here: http://cgit.drupalcode.org/oa_theme/tree/README.md 

The advantage of these tools is the power and speed that they give you once they are set up which is usually straight forward.

This module will make things much easier: https://www.drupal.org/project/devel_themer 

Once this is set up you will need to follow the instructions in edgy to set that up: http://cgit.drupalcode.org/edgy/tree/README.txt 

To get this all working, we will need to set up a common development environment. See this task: http://mayostudios.org/mayodev/get-involved-web-development/common-devel... 

This might be useful: http://www.timbridge.online/2016/05/14/creating-a-subtheme-from-open-atr... 

We need to set up a development environment. There are three parts to this.

1) set up a script that will create a server based on 16.04 ready for drupal.

2) set up a grab script that will set up a live development version of mayostudios.org with all the devel modules setup.

3) grab the latest version of any MAYO modules that we are working on from github. We should store all our code in github so we (and others) can easily work on it.

That means it will be a few commands to have the latest version working on our own (virtualbox) machine.

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This project is crucial. MAYODev is the group that runs this website. We have our own webserver at Mazenod and have total control of a webserver in the US which runs this website. By getting involved you will learn professional skills and be able to run your own webserver if you wish. The technology we use is all free but even the US government uses the same technology as us. 

Our technology stack:

We are running a linode (https://www.linode.com/) (but you can play with your own webserver using AWS (AWS Amazon)

Apache (http://www.apache.org/) with MySQL and PHP

Drupal (https://www.drupal.org/) 

OpenAtrium (https://www.drupal.org/project/openatrium) a Drupal distribution.

We will be improving our setup using Drupal VM (able to create a website with one button) http://www.drupalvm.com/  

Here is youtube that explains all this.

There are many different skills that you can learn:

A) Managing the website: learn OpenAtrium

B) Running the web server: using the command line

C) Help improve the look of the website: learn html, css and OpenAtrium

D) Help connect the website with social media: learn RSS

E) Help create a MAYO...