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UQ MARS Student Society Website

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JavaScript 2.14% CSS 11.05% HTML 77.43% SCSS 9.37%

uqmars.github.io's Introduction

UQ MARS website built using the solid state template by html5up. 

I've primarily edited the html documents to lay out and display the
content from the old uqmars.com website which was hosted on wordpress.
I haven't made any scripting changes yet (unsure when I will have the time to)
although I would like to make the html documents more compact and javascript 
generated to reduce complexity.

Ahmad

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Solid State by HTML5 UP
html5up.net | @ajlkn
Free for personal and commercial use under the CCA 3.0 license (html5up.net/license)


After a somewhat extended break from HTML5 UP (to work on a secret-ish new project --
more on that later!) I'm back with a brand new design: Solid State, a slick new multi-
pager that combines some of the ideas I've played with over at Pixelarity with an "angular"
sort of look. Hope you dig it :)

Demo images* courtesy of Unsplash, a radtastic collection of CC0 (public domain) images
you can use for pretty much whatever.

(* = not included)

AJ
[email protected] | @ajlkn


Credits:

	Demo Images:
		Unsplash (unsplash.com)

	Icons:
		Font Awesome (fontawesome.io)

	Other:
		jQuery (jquery.com)
		Scrollex (github.com/ajlkn/jquery.scrollex)
		Responsive Tools (github.com/ajlkn/responsive-tools)

uqmars.github.io's People

Contributors

Forkers

dooganar thatsealgair q-horton wall-e2002

uqmars.github.io's Issues

Maintain blog

If anyone's got the time / motivation, would be good to write a blog post or two this year (https://uqmars.com/blog-posts/blog.html), even just event summaries

Update 'events' page

Add content to the 'events' page https://uqmars.com/events/events.html
May be a way to automatically sync from the FB page https://smashballoon.com/how-to-display-facebook-events-on-your-website/

Include linktree in page footer

Make the website a little more update-proof by including the linktree, which can easily be updated in the event that a new site is added https://linktr.ee/uqmars

Link to past exec pages

Can't find any links to the past exec pages, may want to include those

Add ABN to website footer

Add the UQ MARS ABN to the website's footer on all pages. The ABN is:

82 398 252 645

Update footer to include incorporation status

Due to our recently accepted incorporation, update the society trading name in the footer to be "UQ Mechatronics and Robotics Society Inc.".

Update Micromelon logo with high quality version.

Awaiting logo from Micromelon and BPEQ

Update exec page 2023

Not sure how to approach it from a styling side, but would be good to make a note that Ben was appointed an exec in mid April, and Hokul stepped down in late March.

Add sponsorship biographies

Turbo tier sponsors are supposed to get a dedicated page on the website.

Background image not appearing on some pages' footer section

Revamp and consolidation of UQ MARS website

This Ticket has been created for the incoming Technical Officer 2024

A context and current overview of what is needed for the revamp of the UQ MARS website.

The Context

With the changing of the guard at the start of the 2023 executive year, a decision was made to end hosting of the website on our previous platform. The exec team chose to migrate the UQ MARS website to github, which although free has some restrictions on the format of the pages they host (The main caveat being that only static pages are able to be hosted).

As the Technical Officer for 2023, I took this as an opportunity to learn a bit about building a website. The website in its current form is a collection of HTML pages styled with CSS and a tiny bit of JavaScript (that was included in the template I used). This came together fairly quickly using my limited knowledge and was sufficient for the time being. It was always meant as a stopgap measure, and in this it served its purpose.

The Task

The most pressing issue with the website in its current form is that it is very cumbersome to maintain. Any changes that need to be made must be edited into the html files, and in the case of menu items, headers or footers this means finding every single instance in the 20+(?) pages in the site structure. I planned to revamp the site so that it had a more modern and maintainable structure, but unfortunately my workload and other UQ MARS projects have restricted the amount of time I could spend on it.

I won't prescribe the approach that should be used, this is the prerogative of the incoming Technical Officer to rebuild as they see fit (and I am definitely not qualified to make definitive statements on this anyway).

The requirements

Here is an initial list of pages for implementing the new site based on what is in the existing site - new Tech Officer or T3 exec can modify or expand on this as needed

Front Page, the first thing visitors see
Sponsors Page - ** This is a requirement for Turbo level sponsors**. Don't neglect this
Join Page
Previous event blog and upcoming events (this could be included into the front page)
Exec page(s)
Workshops/Projects page(s)
Maybe links to newsletters? - You guys can decide
...

I hope the incoming exec enjoy building a new UQ MARS online presence and learn lots from the experience. I enjoyed building this (as janky as it is) but I'd like to see it evolve into something better!