Refresh based on os-component-website template

[jamiethecat]

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[aperezdc]

@jamiethecat Hi, and sorry for taking so long in replying here. This is IMO definitely an improvement over the current design (which has served us well, but is quite dated), thanks a ton for proposing it 🫶

I have pushed a rebased and slightly updated version of this to the aperezdc/new-design branch, and I think it's ready to merge. I'm currently double-checking with other maintainers to make sure we all agree on going ahead. If yes, I will take care of merging things manually, and making sure that the cron job that handles website updates has its environment updated and that Jekyll works there correctly.

[jimmac]

A lot has changed since this PR was made. jekyll isn't a preprocessor I'd recommend using in 2026. The amount of overhead dealing with gem dependencies is just not worth it, especially for a site that really only uses it to have a markdown processor. I've since moved the template the redesign is based on to Zola.

I took some time to port this site to zola -- https://github.com/jimmac/WebKitGTK.org/tree/wip/jimmac/zola

Preview here -- https://jimmac.github.io/WebKitGTK.org/

[mcatanzaro]

It looks excellent.

I think a rebased pull request might help speed this along.

[jamiethecat]

It has been 2 years since I opened this MR, so I'm not familiar enough with the codebase anymore to quickly rebase it. I recommend either @jimmac (who also has collaborator permissions to my branch) or someone else to do it.

[mcatanzaro]

I just spent an hour rebasing this. Was not fun. Code is here. We should land this ASAP because every news post we publish between now and then needs to be modified to work with Zola rather than Jekyll.

Unfortunately my rebase is broken:

$ zola serve
Building site...
ERROR Failed to serve the site
ERROR error: Found string but expected identifier.
 --> partials/footer.html:6:38
  |
6 |         {% if link.url is containing("http") %}
  |                                      ^^^^^^

@jimmac I don't want to think about this. Any ideas?

To-do:

• Michael should ensure all scripts (e.g. wsa and webkit-release) are modified for Zola if not already (should be easy)
• Michael to review other changes to webkitgtk.org in past two years to make sure we haven't lost any changes
• @aperezdc should ensure the actual webkitgtk.org has zola installed (hopefully easy, since there is a Debian package?)

Minor downside: we'll have to modify the header of the security advisories before copying them to wpewebkit.org. Not a big deal.

[mcatanzaro]

Um, I also suggest we modify the new WebKitGTK logo to remove the Safari compass. I suspect Apple will likely not appreciate that.

[mcatanzaro]

Maybe we could steal design concept from the Epiphany logo instead? Or... tbh, basically anything other than the compass metaphor?

Or maybe it's fine. We could simply ask Apple and see whether they're OK with it, and not worry about it unless they complain.