Merge pull request hoodiehq#161 from zoepage/gh-pages

added information for new contributors

Author: zoepage

README.md

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 For example take a look at the calendar icon on the index page.
 
+## Contributing
+We are very happy about you contributing to the Hoodie website! We have defined a process that makes it easy for you to contribute and helps us maintain the website.
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+Please fork the website and send a Pull Request for your contribution. Here is <a href="http://hood.ie/blog/contributing-to-hoodie.html" target="_blank">an amazing article</a>, that explains how you can fork and edit files, also how to send a Pull Request. It's especially great for new contributors! Please do not forget to add comments on what you did and why, especially if your changes are bit more complex. 
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+We will review the Pull Request (PR) and merge or comment it. 
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+**Content changes and typos**   
+Simple typo fixes can be merged right away, if you have the permission to do so. We trust you with that!
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+In addition, if you want to merge a PR that includes structural changes, make sure to test the whole site on your computer to make sure nothing breaks. We want to avoid having a broken site online. Once a PR is merged (into the gh-pages branch), the changes will be on the live site a few seconds later.
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+**Layout changes and additions**  
+We wrote a small css-framework for our websites (hood.ie, docs, blog, faq), so the CI remains the same everywhere and we can make changes at the design pretty quick, also we are able to build new sites pretty quick and without a haze!
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+If you`d love to change something within the layout or add something specific to the website, please read the <a href="https://github.com/hoodiehq/hoodie-css#how-to-use" target="_blank">"How to use the hoodie-css framework"-guide</a> first!
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+Then fork, commit and PR! <3
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 ## Deployments
 
 The new hood.ie Website doesn't need to be deployed after making changes. (Only thing you might need to know: when making changes locally on files like `_config.yml` or on blog post drafts (`_drafts`), you may need to restart your local Jekyll so you can also see them locally immediately (abort on Mac with `cmd+c`, restart with `jekyll serve --watch --drafts`(which then also gives you blog drafts).)