Breadcrumb theory

[dberlow]

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Things are looking good.

I’d now like to spread the circled items from the three “overview” pages attached to the corresponding pages of each “Topic” page. So the next page after these three would have “Scripts/before variables...”. E.g. across the top, and on to the current end of our examples and for all future pages.

Let me know if questions.

Thanks.

[dberlow]

Right now it's kind of hard to keep track of the editorial work going forward because neither GitHub or the site is aligned to the: "Before variables..." and "After variables...", in the sites breadcrumbs or the text associated with them. I'm going forward to do some edits and rewrites this week , (two are done already), and can see the breadcrumbs displayed in GitHub above the changes I need to make, but where's the data driving the display of those breadcrumbs? and is that what's feeding the site's breadcrumbs?

[ghost]

The breadcrumbs and main titles are defined at the top of each article file, under the topics folder. These and the sidebar table of contents used to be automatically generated, but that became too inflexible, so now it’s just all manual. The TOC is a plain HTML file in _includes/sidebar.html. This makes it more annoying to update, but at least it can exactly reflect what the structure should be.

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[ghost]

I would love to do this site in a real CMS, so that it would be much easier for the editors to keep track of everything, but the open-source requirement made the learning curve too steep for me at the beginning, with the speed we need.

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The breadcrumbs and main titles are defined at the top of each article file, under the topics folder. These and the sidebar table of contents used to be automatically generated, but that became too inflexible, so now it’s just all manual. The TOC is a plain HTML file in _includes/sidebar.html. This makes it more annoying to update, but at least it can exactly reflect what the structure should be.

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[dberlow]

Well it doesn’t matter much, CMS or by hand, if correcting breadcrumbs so we can get on with is not happening and it’s become a bottleneck to further instructions.

On Feb 4, 2019, at 10:39 AM, Chris Lewis notifications@github.com wrote:

I would love to do this site in a real CMS, so that it would be much easier for the editors to keep track of everything, but the open-source requirement made the learning curve too steep for me at the beginning, with the speed we need.

On Mon, Feb 4, 2019 at 7:00 AM Chris Lewis clewis@fontbureau.com wrote:

The breadcrumbs and main titles are defined at the top of each article file, under the topics folder. These and the sidebar table of contents used to be automatically generated, but that became too inflexible, so now it’s just all manual. The TOC is a plain HTML file in _includes/sidebar.html. This makes it more annoying to update, but at least it can exactly reflect what the structure should be.

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[ghost]

I've updated all the breadcrumbs to the "Before variables…" , "With variables…", "Examples…" format. I have not done Example 1-2-3 yet until we get sorted out which ones go where.