Addition of a "Home Screen"

[Ibrahim-Faisal15]

There should be a Home Screen because it looked overwhelming when jumping onto the Home page. For instance, Wikipedia has a decent-looking Home Screen.

[Buzzpy]

Hello! I see, but can you elaborate? I looked at the Wikipedia homepage, which is reasonable and great, as Wikipedia has different categories and is the largest online encyclopedia. I'm wondering how this should be implemented in this Dev encyclopedia.

Would you like to provide a rough sketch of the home screen you'd like to add? I'd really appreciate it! (Roughly, no need for serious graphics)

[KC900201]

Hi @Buzzpy,

If I may interject, I suggest one of the improvements we can make to the homepage is to introduce simplicity by hiding the cards first when the user accesses the web page, and only making them visible when he/she performs one of the following actions:

1. Type in keywords in search panel
2. Selecting one of the categories in the Category dropdown

This can reduce the workload when the page loads for the first time. We don't have to display the term cards in the initial page load if the user didn't type in or select the dropdown.

In the future, the card loading display can be further improved with pagination

[KC900201]

Hi @Buzzpy,

If I may interject, I suggest one of the improvements we can make to the homepage is to introduce simplicity by hiding the cards first when the user accesses the web page, and only making them visible when he/she performs one of the following actions:

1. Type in keywords in search panel
2. Selecting one of the categories in the Category dropdown

This can reduce the workload when the page loads for the first time. We don't have to display the term cards in the initial page load if the user didn't type in or select the dropdown.

In the future, the card loading display can be further improved with pagination

Hi @RayMathew, I'd like to ask your opinion on this. If it's okay, would you like to assign this to me? cc: @Buzzpy

Improvements:

• Hide term cards during initial page load
• Make them only visible user either type in keywords or select a valid category in drop-down

[RayMathew]

I'm not sure I like the idea @KC900201. I see a value in showing cards on page load itself - it gives the user an immediate idea what the website is about, without having to interact with the search or drop-down.

[Buzzpy]

Agreed @RayMathew . Pagination (as mentioned in an issue before) would be a good feature, but with my work and studies, I didn't get enough time to look into it.

Thanks for your interest though. Really appreciate it!