msrd.io
The web site for the Microsoft Regional Directors, a global community of independent Microsoft ambasadors.
STOP!
May 30, 2013
We have stopped working on the Master branch. All work is continuing on the Static branch for now. Two reasons:
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Updates to Master get deployed immediately to www.msrd.io
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Static gets 'compiled' into a release folder, which will eventually get deployed to Azure. But we haven't figured that out yet.
Technical details about the RD site
- HTML5 and CSS3, naturally
- Hosted on Azure as part of their preview "web site"
- Node.js and Express for minimal routing and layout engine
- Content marked up as Jade (HTML), Stylus (CSS) and Markdown (text)
- No client-side Javascript (yet)
- Git for source control; change sets pushed to Azure via
git push - Source will be on github
Getting Started
% npm install
% npm install -g supervisor
% ./autostart
Now open http://localhost:3000 to view
Stretch goals for the site
- Clean typography
- Semantic markup
- Grid-based layouts
- Mobile-first adaptive design
- Design ∩ Engineering
- EMs over Pixels
- Engineered HTTP for speed
- And source control as CMS (Markdown and Github)