About this Website

Technology

This website uses Jekyll, a static site generator, and is published using GitHub Pages.

What is Jekyll?

Jekyll is a static site generator with built-in support for GitHub Pages. It builds a static website for you based on simple text files organized into folders and their corresponding HTML templates. For more information see: Jekyll

Excerpt from CloudCannon’s ‘Why use a static site generator?’: […] the difference between dynamic CMSs such as WordPress or Drupal and static site generators like Jekyll:

• Static sites respond quickly because it retrieves files only, so there is not a lot of processing
• Static sites are more secure; not as many vulnerabilities; no plugins
• Static sites on server can handle more traffic
• Static sites have version control

What is GitHub Pages?

GitHub Pages is a static site hosting service that takes HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files straight from a repository on GitHub, optionally runs the files through a build process, and publishes a website. For more information see: What is GitHub Pages?

Maintenance and Support

The site is maintained by the MWG Website subgroup. To find out about contributing to MWG and its subgroups, see Take Part. For questions or feedback about the website, please submit an issue to our GitHub repository.