wishlist new website version

[thibautjombart]

Here are the various things which would be good to improve on or add to the website:

• a search engine which can be used to find documents by category (e.g. lecture, practical) and tags (i.e. any keyword relating to content)

• other pages (e.g. "about") linked from the landing page, and instructions on how to add and link new pages

• a ribbons system indicating the category of documents on the post images of the landing page

• record license as part of the yaml header of posts, handled as category and tags, and displayed alongside ribbons

• an option to specify how many posts to display on the landing page, with the rest of the content displayed by following a link 'next'

• add Disqus support

• add a post on how to contribute material to the website // unsure about this, to discuss

[thibautjombart]

This is feedback on the new proposed version hosted at https://reconlearn-ld.netlify.com/
Overall, the new version looks great and ticks most of the boxes. These are minor edits / requests, ranked from most important to more optional:

• in the practicals, use the same style as in original website (I had customized it a bit)

• use the font selection used in the original website, for the titles and regular text, making sure that the fonts are shipped with the website; currently Sawasdee (used in titles) displays on chrome, but not firefox

• for the first items displayed on 'home', balance the space for text vs image a bit more, and reduce the height of the item a bit

• add a page similar to the 'topics' for 'authors'; title would be 'Browse content by author'

• in the posts, links to authors should link to the list of posts from these authors, ie same result we'd get clicking on this author on the new 'authors' page

• in navbar, distinguish 'home' and other regular pages (about, sample, contact) from those which browse content by type of search: lectures, practicals, license, author; the latter may be prefixed by 'Browse content by:' or something similar.

• try and alternative background or logo as the current logo on purple background doesn't work very well

• on the navigation bar, add icons and links to: email, github (pointing to the sources), and maybe even a 'fork me on github' ribbon (if straightforward)

• in the navbar, the RECONlearn logo points to the current page; replace with a link to 'home'

• on 'topics', replace the title: 'Tags' -> 'Browse content by topic'

[stephlocke]

Heya @thibautjombart, with a couple of hours left to do tasks in - could you make sure the above are in priority order so that we don't tackle the less important items at the expense of higher value items.

[thibautjombart]

Thanks, I have re-ordered the list. I suspect we'll have funding for more, so hopefully we'll get down to the bottom of the list at some point.