Theatre Website Post-Mortem
I’ve finally finished our new theatre website (something which took far longer than it should have because my first version broke due to various PHP issues I still haven’t been able to fix (ugh ugh ugh) and I then kept kicking that can down the road) but it’s finally live now.
Tech Stack
After being burnt by PHP, I decided to just use 11ty like I did for the other group11. This is something of a longer story—I originally joined the Sternenwanderer, but then wound up putsching/leaving with some others because we had differing conceptions of how the group should be run. In the beginning, we were a sub group, but then split properly a semester later—and thank the gods for that! Point being, that I made two theatre websites using 11ty, but, frankly, the Sternenwanderer one is fairly rough; I took a photography theme and did some light modifications and then mostly stopped caring because it really wasn’t my business anymore., but this time chose a saner foundation. I settled on the excellent 11ty-excellent and went from there. So far, the website is fairly close to Lene’s defaults and design, but I plan to tweak this more as soon as I find the time and manage to figure out our group’s aesthetic a bit better.
Design
The website just runs now22. If only I could get PDF downloads to work, but they refuse to, no matter how often I follow the instructions—yet another problem for future me. and looks nice enough. Soon-ish, I’ll implement more fonts so that each production uses the font we used in the brochures and nicer galleries and cast lists—it’s one of the few website projects I’m looking forward to at the moment.
Updates
I think this is a sticking issue—the website is hosted on GitHub Pages, and I do worry that no one will ever update it after I’m gone. Guys, updating it is simple enough, and I’ve written a fairly extensive tutorial.