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BayAreaMetro / fast-trips-project

SHRP2-sponsored dynamic transit assignment practical research project
http://fast-trips.mtc.ca.gov/
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Make blog content more visible from top of homepage #14

Open e-lo opened 9 years ago

e-lo commented 9 years ago

Currently you can't see it because of length of intro paragraph

ddorinson commented 9 years ago

Have you thought about using a two-column layout on the front page? Not sure if our template is mobile-responsive, or for that matter, how much traffic we'll see from mobile devices vs. desktop/laptop... Just a thought.

e-lo commented 9 years ago

Like a sidebar with a list of posts? Otherwise I think a two-column with content on both would look super wordy but maybe I'm being overly sensitive. Another solution is to allow the intro content to scroll separately (paralax)

(btw - if you can link to a page that you think I should be mimicking that would help me understand what you aspire towards!)

ddorinson commented 9 years ago

Was not thinking something as complex as parallax... just a way to see both types of content from the top of the page.

I guess a sidebar comes closest to what I had in mind--something like one of these: https://wordpress.org/themes/woodley/ [super traditional; gets the job done] https://wordpress.org/themes/everbox/ [more than simple text links to posts--u get pics too!] https://wordpress.org/themes/serena/ [lots of words on the page, but in a tiled set-up]

So far, you have been pretty good about adding graphics early in each post, so I am not super-worried about there being too much text to wade through.

But, if it doesn't look nice, another option would be to have the intro content become a sticky post on one side, and add some graphics to it, so that we know the front page will always have some pieces that help break up any potential monotony if we happen to have a few back-to-back text heavy blog posts.

Not sure if that helps...?