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Revamp the home page to make it a better landing page
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):

And this is another page that caught my eye for its simplicity:
@geerlingguy Wrong @elazar. :wink:
D'oh! Sorry to @elezar, but hello from St. Louis, Missouri and I hope you're doing well!
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:

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.