Brand new website

[espadrine]

This is a meta-bug. There may be many pull requests for this single issue.

Features that would be desirable in a new website:

• Simpler design, less stuff, more to the point
• Search
• Badge suggestions from GitHub, … URLs
• Copy-and-paste markdown / HTML / reStructedText
• Ability to select which badge style / label we pick
• Group badges by communities (Ruby, node, PHP, …)

# Markdown
[![somewhere](https://img.shields.io/badge/my-submarine-yellow.svg)](http://somewhere.over/the/rainbow/)
# reStructuredText
.. image:: https://img.shields.io/badge/my-submarine-yellow.svg   :target: http://somewhere.over/the/rainbow/
# AsciiDoc
image:https://img.shields.io/badge/my-submarine-yellow.svg[Somewhere, link="http://somewhere.over/the/rainbow/"]

Suggestions welcome.

[chadwhitacre]

!m @espadrine

I'd love to see some emphasis on paying for Shields via @gratipay (formerly Gittip). One of the ideas we're exploring over on Gratipay itself is the idea of tying funding to usage. "You use Shields this much. Therefore, your suggested payment is this much."

@espadrine What are your thoughts on funding for Shields? Are you satisfied with where things stand? What goals do you have?

[Potherca]

Maybe it's a good idea to create a separate issue for each feature to discuss details?

I wouldn't mind donating some time for this...

[espadrine]

@whit537 The target is self-sustainability given the possibility of expansion. Currently, we need to pay for DNS, SSL, Gratipay; in the future, quite possibly, Heroku. Since @olivierlacan is the one paying DNS and SSL, I don't have precise knowledge as to how much that costs.

@Potherca So far, this thread isn't crowded. If it gets out of control, you're encouraged to fork into a separate issue!

[waldyrious]

Related: #50 and #91.

[espadrine]

@waldyrious Thanks for pointing out those older issues!

[espadrine]

I've started working on the website. It will be at /beta.html. When we're happy with it, we'll copy it to try.html.

The emphasis will be on searchability (given how many badges there are) and on helping users get going fast. However, the search feature isn't written yet; it's an empty shell. The result of this search / URL fetch is meant to provide easy copy-and-paste snippets and example badges for their projects.

Anyone that wishes to improve the beta page in a particular way should first say so here, to avoid duplication of efforts.

[espadrine]

This will be the default website, and features will be added incrementally. Contributions should now be made to try.html, and anyone starting implementation of a feature should mention it here.