This repository contains static web page(s) the NMDC team uses to display messages during outages and other special events.
It is hosted at: https://status.microbiomedata.org/
Write the text in Markdown format in the file ./message.md, then reload the web page (i.e. index.html). The reloaded web page will show the message in a box below the words, "We'll be right back."
If the ./message.md file is empty, the web page will show a default message saying all systems are running normally.
GitHub will automatically deploy the latest commit on the main branch, to GitHub Pages.
The website is built upon the Bootstrap 5 web UI framework.
The font was chosen in an attempt to match the NMDC website.
font-family: Arimo,sans-serif- Arimo is available from Google Fonts: https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Arimo
- Code snippets for using the font: https://thomaspark.co/projects/fontcdn/
The color scheme was chosen in an attempt to match the NMDC website.
:root {
--nmdc-white: #ffffff;
--nmdc-black: #000000;
--nmdc-blue: #02aae7;
--nmdc-orange: #ee5338;
--nmdc-purple: #4f3b80;
--nmdc-light-gray: #f5f5f5;
--nmdc-light-blue: #edf9fd;
}In ./index.css, these colors are defined using CSS custom properties.
The ./robots.txt file contains the following, which tells all robots (e.g. web crawlers) we don't want them to visit any pages of the website. It's up to them to respect that, though.
User-agent: *
Disallow: /Reference: robotstxt.org
The website's text is written in Markdown format. I implemented things that way in an attempt to make it easier for team members who are familiar with Markdown—but not with HTML—to update the website.
The website uses a JavaScript library named Showdown to convert that Markdown into HTML. The conversion process happens when the web browser loads the web page.
This website currently does not use Google Analytics.
The following files in this repository were copied from the NMDC website:
./favicon.ico: https://microbiomedata.org/favicon.ico./img/logo-mark.svg: https://microbiomedata.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/logo-img.svg./img/logo-text.svg: https://microbiomedata.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2019/08/logo-text.svg./img/hero.webp: This is the result of running https://microbiomedata.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/01/XBD201307-03354-194_NMDCHero.jpg through the Convertio JPEG-to-WEBP converter (which decreased its file size by more than half).
