This repository is a demo static website for the Pirate Chain Network

The demo can be veiwed at https://scott-fff.github.io/pirate.black/.

The main intent of this demo was to create a static website that is automated, low maintenence, and open to the community.

• Pure HTML, CSS, and minimal JS
• low maintenance, no plugins or anything to keep updated
• small, only aroudn 12mb
• Hostable on github (no server costs or maintenence required)
• sits nicely behind cloudflare or other free CDN for a very fast site (once optimized)
• git provides Chain of custody, versioning, and handles permissions (no more wondering who has access)
• ultra portable - can be hosted anywhere - no database to move
• can be hosted easily on alternative networks like IPFS or Qortal
• disaster resilient - if a host is shutdown, the DNS can simply be pointed to any other copy (gitlab mirror for example)
• makes the website opensource open to the copmmunity being on git
• If self-hosted, can use git hook so source remains open
• becuase on git and simple HTML so anybody can PR
• automated, all links and content update automatically so no manual interaction is needed - helps prevent site from looking abandoned in slow times
• Jekeyl was used for templating and extra functionality -A translation system was built using Jekyll and python scripts which scrape the english version and use DeepL API to create transalted static pages in the lang directory.

The drawback from going to a static website however is that there is no database for things like a self hosted blog platform, or CMS for people to make changes to content graphically. Ultimately it was decided to go with a more complete server with a site and blog system built on wordpress

## This Demo is UNFINISHED. Some features were not completed. Do not rely on the scripts or any info on the website.

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PIRATE.BLACK WEBSITE

This repository contains the source of the Pirate Chain official website hosted at https://pirate.black.

Pirate Chain is a community project, so we invite your feedback and improvement ideas using the GitHub issues.

Please contact us on the Pirate Chain Discord server to discuss any Pull Requests or other suggestions. https://pirate.black/discord

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SITE OPERATION AND MAINTENANCE

The following are notes for maintaining and operating the website
The pirate.black website has been written in primarily HTML and CSS. Javascript is also used sparingly. Jquery and other external packages should be avoided where possible.

Community Page

The community page is a live feed of the most recent videos posted to the following playlists on the Official Pirate Chain YouTube channel.

• Pirate Music Playlist
• Events Playlist
• Interviews Playlist
• Monthy Updates Playlist
• ARRR Community Playlist
• Daily Dose of Pirate chain channel

Branding Page

All the images displayed are linked from the mediakit repository at https://github.com/PirateNetwork/mediakit. Any changes to the naming scheme of the logos and brand art will break the images and switching functionality on this page.

Whitepaper

The whitepaper is a iframe that refers to the whitepaper hosted at https://github.com/PirateNetwork/pirate-docs/tree/master/assets/whitepaper. Any new versions of the whitepaper must use the name: Pirate_Chain_White_Paper.pdf, or a update to the iframe source on this page will be required

Contact email address

The email address on the contact.html page is obscured from scrapers. The contact email address is stored in the data-contact element encoded in base64 and decoded with JavaScript.

<a  id="email"
  href="#"
  data-contact="bWFya2V0aW5nQHBpcmF0ZS5ibGFjaw=="
  data-subj="Q29udGFjdCBmcm9tIHBpcmF0ZS5ibGFjayB3ZWJzaXRl"
  onfocus="reveal(this.dataset.contact, this.dataset.subj);"
>

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