dotnet-foundation / website

The .NET Foundation's website

dotnetfoundation-website

NOTE: This repository is no longer being used to build the dotnetfoundation.org website! The new site is hosted in a Content Management System (CMS) and is no longer built from this repository.

This repository will be archived soon.

This repository contains the solution that is used to build and deploy the dotnetfoundation website.

Pull requests and issues are welcome!

Prerequisites

• Git: Clone this repository to make a change.
• .NET Core SDK 5.0.*
• Optional: Visual Studio 2019 or Visual Studio Code for editing.

Build and test

The basic steps to run or build the project:

1. Use dotnet run from the root of the repository to generate the static site.
2. After the build, check the output folder to review the generated HTML files.

To build and preview the site, run:

dotnet run -- preview

The preceding command launches a preview web server that can be viewed from http://localhost:5080. The site automatically rebuilds and refreshes when content changes are made.

Project Structure

This website uses Statiq Web, a flexible and extensible static site generator for .NET.

• App.Config : The configuration file for the project. Review the appSettings section of App.Config.

• Program.cs:

  • Handles the generation of the site.
  • Starts the web server when running from Visual Studio.
  • Defines the input folder and the output of static files.

• input : The input folder contains source files that are rendered as HTML files.

  • _partials folder contains small sections of code that are required in ther views, includes:
    • _head.cshtml: Contains the head section of the view and includes the initial stylesheet and JavaScript imports.
    • _header.cshtml: Common header used for views. Includes the main navigation.
    • _footer.cshtml: Common footer for views.
  • _layout.cshtml: Location where the page structure, include partials, nalytics code, and other imports are built.
  • index.cshtml: Main page for the site. Properties for the page can be efined at the top of the file. For example, a specific title for the page.
  • css folder contains all the stylesheet files required.
  • js folder contains the JavaScript libraries and other custom scripts.

Each file inside the input folder is processed by Statiq and will generate static output files.

website's Issues

ui improvements why join page

https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/why-join
update on mobile

A small update to the user interface in the menu

Need to slightly reduce the drop-down list

ui update community page

https://dotnetfoundation.org/community/committees

toggle menu bug

Needs an RSS feed

About page should be revisited

URL: https://dotnetfoundation.org/about

People's titles and their description seem a bit outdated. e.g. both Jon and Martin are listed as .NET Foundation VPs, among many other descriptions that seem too old

Create a custom 404 page

Current 404 page is not very helpful

Needs a sitemap

Update front page to close election nominations

I can do a PR later, but if somebody else can get to it before me that would great. We should have updated the page last Friday according to the policy.

Create robots.txt at root of site

A robots.txt file is used to explicitly tell spiders and crawlers which parts of the site to index and which parts not to index.

This was done for the previous version of the site..

dotnet-foundation/dotnetfoundation-website#136

small ui update links

https://dotnetfoundation.org/about/election/candidates
Learn More on hover

Should not output __data items as html

add all favicons

https://realfavicongenerator.net/favicon_checker?protocol=https&site=dotnetfoundation.org%2F#.XxTB6igzaMo

Split archived projects into different section

Some projects have run their course. We should split them into their own section on the projects page based on the IsActive attribute being false.

Navigation bug on tablet screens

https://dotnetfoundation.org/

off-center search button

https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects

There is a scroll on mobile devices

There is a right scroll on mobile devices

Post contribution agreements

We should post the contribution/assignment agreements so people can see it as part of the project onboarding process.

Should not render Visible:false pages

Broken "Contact us" link in privacy policy

https://dotnetfoundation.org/privacy-policy ends with "Questions about this Privacy Policy? Contact us." That links to https://dotnetfoundation.org/contact-us, which says "Page Not Found".

Because Clause 7 "Notice to .NET Foundation" in the Contributor License Agreement can require contacting the foundation, I think the web site should clearly indicate how to best do that.

Previously reported as dotnet-foundation/dotnetfoundation-website#88 but that repository was then archived.

RSS Feed returns 404

#22 indicates that an RSS feed was added in #27, but /api/rss/ which is linked is returning a 404. It looks like it's a redirect to /api/rss/index.xml, but that also returns a 404.

Provide more information on Membership

The membership page doesn't seem to have enough information (for me at least).

Information that may need to be added:

• What is exactly the meaning of "becoming a member" ?
• What are the benefits of being a member?
• What are the criteria for membership request to be accepted?
• More details about the elections mentioned in that page, including - but not limited to - when that election is hold? and also a link to https://election.dotnetfoundation.org/

Missing Content

1. Home Page -> Resources Text
   

2. Committees -> blurb + add more committees
   

3. About page -> Financial support
   

Dates for Upcoming Events and Meetups show incorrect local dates

The dates shown on the home page only reflect the day of the event with the local time zone offset applied. Since it is date without a time is specified, it assumes midnight.

Duplicate Entry in the .NET Advisory Council member list.

Dominick Baier appears twice as part of the .NET Advisory Council here

need to transfer inline styles to the main file

search ui improvements on mobile devices

https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects
This page has a very small search bar, you need to make it full width to the tablet

Improve corporate sponsor section

Most of the content from the blog post should be included on the main site

https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2019/01/16/why-you-should-join-part-2-corporate-sponsor

https://dotnetfoundation.org/member/corporate-sponsors

Meta description property needed for all pages

Every page should have a meta description element that would get output. This is important for SEO and should probably be a standard part of Statiq.Web

Colon inside title is not rendered correctly

https://dotnetfoundation.org/blog/2019/01/23/why-you-should-join-part-3-become-a-board-member

Add information about working groups

I couldn't find anything on the website about the working groups, how to join them, what minutes they've published.

On-page SEO updates

In order to rank higher on SERP (Search engine result page) and get more organic user traffic I would recommend to practice on-page SEO by optimizing individual web pages for .NET Foundation. These play key role in making web pages/content visible on various search engines. One can start with updating/optimizing following:

• Page Title (upto 60 characters)
• Meta Description (50-160 characters)
• H1 Tags (20-70 characters)
• Image optimization (under 100kb)

Keyword research (very important to know which keywords are driving traffic to the website and include them in most of the above strategically to gain more traffic)

I will be happy to help you with above updates.

Pages giving 4xx reponse code

Attached is the list of pages not found and are giving 4xx reponse code as per screaming frog crawler (website audit tool). The list contain both internal/external links which are linked from dotnet foundation website.
4xx errors effect user experience, all the listed pages are non-indexable, so they can be either removed/deleted or can be used 301 to redirect to right place.
If any listed pages are working and not giving 4xx, I would request you to simply ignore it.

Dotnet_foundation_response_codes_client_error_(4xx).xlsx

Corrupted characters in translations of cookie preferences

In translations of the cookie preferences, some non-ASCII characters have become corrupted. For example, the Italian translation says "Cookies di targeting e pubblicit�" rather than "Cookies di targeting e pubblicità".

https://www.cookieconsent.com/releases/3.0.0/cookie-consent.js is OK but https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/website/raw/29ca44c0e64d20543970d3d8688d1438fba391f6/input/js/cookie-consent.3.0.0.js is corrupt: all 0xA0 bytes have been replaced with 0x20. This breaks UTF-8 encodings such as 0xC3 0xA0 ("à" U+00E0), 0xCE 0xA0 ("Π" U+03A0), and 0xD0 0xA0 ("Р" U+0420).

Text goes beyond container

The text goes beyond the boundaries of the container on mobile devices

Change AppSettings name url

now ServerUri to ServerUrl

ui improvements about page

need a small update of this unit for mobile devices so that the robot is at the bottom

Corporate sponsor logos missing from page

Logos are missing on this page:
https://dotnetfoundation.org/member/corporate-sponsors

Also, this page 404's on the link to Corporate Sponsors at the bottom of the page:
https://dotnetfoundation.org/about

I don't know how to add logos so flagging it here for help.

tabs are not on the same line

mobile
https://dotnetfoundation.org/news

Add the .NET docs repos

The following repos should be added to the project list:

• Conceptual docs
• Samples
• dotnet-apis

ui update host a meetup page

https://dotnetfoundation.org/community/host-a-meetup

Sitemap needs to exclude /api/

The sitemap file currently includes the api directory:
https://dotnetfoundation.org/sitemap.xml

@daveaglick

All relevant images should have alt useful attributes

For Web Accessibility, all relevant images on the site should have useful alt attributes.

Some images are currently missing them

Navbar on mobile devices is not displayed correctly

Project page isn’t responsive

The page with member project details isn’t responsive and doesn’t render well on mobile.

update block "latest news"

I want to update these blocks, which are indicated in the screenshot, I will give a separate block for the image to improve its sharpness, because at the moment it is a little blurry

Consider alphabetizing with '.' for .NET

It took me a while to find the ".NET Core" project. I looked under ".", then "CoreFx", and finally found it under "N".

Of course, that could be just me.

An H1 element should be present on each page

Each page should have a main heading (h1 element). Currently they are missing and just h2's & h3's used.

A good heading structure is also good Web Accessibility practice

Empty projects list

Just to warn you that the list of projects is empty: https://dotnetfoundation.org/projects/

Submitted the #32 PR that has been merged.

Not sure why some extra --- has been added at the top and if can be the cause:
https://github.com/dotnet-foundation/website/pull/32/files/79a2dbc547516d37698317117693b7dab192afaf..82755ab59845cb788f9fe5c219fefbea1ff349da

/cc @clairernovotny

Each page should declare a canonical url

For SEO purposes, each page should declare its canonical url.

Currently they do not