Your open source project deserves to have a useful website. The site should have natural places for documentation, sales pitches, recognizing the team members, encouraging new people to join the project, accessing builds of the project, and more. But many of us leading open source projects have constrained budgets, or no budget, and end up with a constricted website.
What you're looking at is an example of an open source website, built with free tools, that requires minimal resources to build and maintain the site, is very low cost to maintain, yet looks good and can have any structure you like. This site even has an example electronic-book that can be published as PDF, or EPUB, or hosted online.
Included in this demonstration website are several elements that would be useful for open source software teams:
- A "brochure" area giving a high level overview of the software product
- A "blog" that you can use to post project announcements and tutorials
- An "e-Book" area to hold your documentation
- The e-Book area can also be published as an EPUB file, for example to post for sale via various online book stores
Your website is not limited by what is shown in this demonstration. The demonstration is built on the foundation offered by AkashaCMS - a tool for building any kind of static HTML website - and AkashaEPUB - tool for building EPUB 3 documents.
Your content is stored as simple Markdown files in a file system, and not in an obscure database schema. With AkashaCMS the content is rendered into HTML files, that can utilize any advanced HTML5, JavaScript or CSS3 technique you like. Because they're simply HTML files, the rendered website can be deployed to any low-end inexpensive web hosting provider yet provide excellent page loading times.
The design of AkashaEPUB allows e-Book content to be both published online, in a website, or as an EPUB. Why should your project documentation be hosted by a 3rd party service? It should be on your website, instead.
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