A New Face for Famundo
Posted by Guy Naor Thu, 08 Mar 2007 05:46:00 GMT
Finally after lots of work, the new Famundo site is up an running. I believe it's VERY VERY nice. But go check it out! And do sign up for Famundo while you are there ;-).
We also have the new mascots - same family as the one I have with the logo here on the blog. They are officially called the Famundudes (Famundad, Famunmom, Famunkids, and and the members of the community they interact with).
There's an interesting story behind the site - the site is a fully page-cashed Rails application. And it has a small admin interface to manage all the changeable contents - like news and such. But the server I wanted to put it on started to miss-behave. So we generated all the needed pages by just accessing all the functionality, took the generated pages and uploaded it like a static content. Here's for you a nice little trick with rails for static sites.
The site that will run live with rails is coming soon. And it has a few tricks up it's sleeve - like the ability to switch serving of assets from our servers or from S3, and the ability to cache the html directly into S3. I'll write more about it when it's up.
Please go visit the new site and sign up for Famundo.
