A new history trail application in and around Portland Maine celebrating Jewish History and heratige! Based on my previous work with the Portland Women’s History Trail and working with the Maine Jewish Museum and Documenting Maine Jewry.

The app, like the Women’s History Trail is built using jQuery Mobile and jekyll to create a complete HTML5/CSS3/JavaScript application that will eventually be deployed to the Apple app store and Google Play store (using Cordova).

Currently the app is available on the web https://portland.mainejewishhistorytrails.org. It is designed for mobile devices, but works well on desktop systems as well.

pmjht feature screen

As expected, the content is all markdown and incredibly simple to maintain. Jekyll is used to convert the content to HTML which is then laid into templates for each content type (trail, sites, etc.). With the templates jekyll spits out a completed “application.”

Much of the framework from the Women’s History Trail was carried forward but there have been a lot of changes in technology since then and it was nice to have the oppurtunity to streamline a lot of the inner workings and update the core. All those updates are also getting back-ported to the Women’s Trail as well! Updates all around.