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Revamp the home page to make it a better landing page

Open geerlingguy opened this issue 4 years ago • 4 comments

Goals:

  • Make social / follow links more obvious (RSS, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram at least)
  • Make books more prominent (Ansible for DevOps, Ansible for Kubernetes)
  • Maybe highlight SaaS offerings that I maintain (Hosted Apache Solr, Server Check.in)?
  • Show at least one blog post summary on landing page (link out to full blog listing)
  • Maybe don't show 'projects' anymore (but leave them for historic purposes?) — have to mull this over more...

Summary: I migrated the home page as-is in #44, but after thinking about it more, and also after seeing @elezar's suggestion (see #44), I think it might be good to reconfigure the home page a bit, to establish a little better presence and focus on CTAs that are relevant to someone interested in my work.

This is my current home page (in dark mode):

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And this is another page that caught my eye for its simplicity:

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geerlingguy avatar Apr 07 '20 16:04 geerlingguy

@geerlingguy Wrong @elazar. :wink:

elazar avatar Apr 07 '20 16:04 elazar

D'oh! Sorry to @elezar, but hello from St. Louis, Missouri and I hope you're doing well!

geerlingguy avatar Apr 07 '20 16:04 geerlingguy

I've done the first little bit; removed the Projects block, popped in a social links block, and made the Blog Posts block rise up a little in prominence:

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geerlingguy avatar May 29 '20 02:05 geerlingguy

Going to mark this as fixed... for now at least. I opened #137 as another small improvement, after tweaking the home page text a bit.

geerlingguy avatar Dec 22 '21 03:12 geerlingguy