Installing dependencies

sudo apt-get install rubygems
sudo gem install jekyll aquarium json less therubyracer

• update DOWNLOAD_VERSION in _config.yml
• run jekyll
• output will be in _site/

• Find the two letter ISO 639-1 code for your language (fr, en, jp)
• Run ./_contrib/translate (lang)
• Rename html files in (lang)/ according to your language. And update links in _layouts/base-(lang).html and (lang)/*.html to reflect your changes.
• Translate all .html and images files in (lang)/ and _layouts/base-(lang).html
• Add your language in the language bar in all _layouts/base-*.html
• A tips for translators, you can preview your work in a simple Google chrome browser with no HTTP server. Just go to the existing english page, open the javascript console with CTRL + SHIFT + J and use the following command to make the page editable : document.body.contentEditable=true

You can easily put alerts on the website by changing the ALERT and ALERT_CLASS variables in each base-*.html layout.

Example:

ALERT_CLASS: error
ALERT: <strong>Security alert:</strong> Please upgrade to 0.3.25 as soon as possible!

will produce a red alert box. Possible classes are: error (red), info (blue), success (green) and warning (yellow)

Release notes should be placed in _posts/releases/YEAR-MONTH-DAY-SHORTTITLE.md and adhere to this format:

---
layout: post
title: Bitcoin version 0.3.24 released
src: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/message.php?msg_id=27771039
category: releases
---

Bitcoin v0.3.24 is now available for download at
<https://sourceforge.net/projects/bitcoin/files/Bitcoin/bitcoin-0.3.24/>

...

• SHORTTITLE is used to construct the URL. Something like v0.3.24 will be fine
• layout: post important for Jekyll
• title: ... will be used as the title
• src: ... (optional) link to full annoucement
• category: ... category of post ** releases ** events

Aliases for contributors are defined in _config.yml.

aliases:
  s_nakamoto: Satoshi Nakamoto
  --author=Satoshi Nakamoto: Satoshi Nakamoto
  gavinandresen: Gavin Andresen

These ruby gems are required to build the website:

• jekyll
• aquarium
• json
• less
• therubyracer