This repository contains the front-end styles for the main Northland website. While the main site is built on top of a CMS, this repo is built on top of Middleman.

The current version of this site should always be accessible at northlandchurch.github.io/Website-Styles. Issues, mentioned below, should always be created in reference to this link.

Previous work on this website was done within two separate apps: Basecamp and InVision. Now that this project resides here, any and all project communication happens within "issues." Issues are found in the sidebar to the right; simply click on the circle with the exclamation point.

If you find something that needs to be pointed out, discussed, fixed, updated, etc., just make an issue and everyone should be notified.

Middleman is a static site builder that is built on top of Ruby.

To get the middleman application running on your local, first run bundle install and the begin the server with middleman server. The local instance should then be available at http://localhost:4567, unless your settings are different.

The source code is available in the source folder. It is build with Haml (for HTML), Sass (for CSS), and vanilla javascript. Any changes you make here should be reflected while the server is running.

The source code is compiled into the build folder whenever you run middleman build. This single action creates the entire static website. More details for this specific project will be available soon.

Because this site is hosted with GitHub Pages, updating the production server is quite easy.

After you have made the appropriate changes, make sure you have properly built the static site by following the "building" directions above.

After you have built the static site, simply run middleman deploy to update the website. It might take a few minutes for the updates to show (also, make sure your cache isn't causing problems).