Build templates

[chriskrycho]

This has multiple subtasks:

• [x] Convert the current index.html visual template into a Jinja2 template for the index page.
• [x] Create Jinja2 templates for individual post pages
• [x] Decide how to handle Author, Category, and Tag elements
  • Leave blank and configure them accordingly in Pelican?
  • Create pages for them? Will we use them at all?

The first two are simply tasks specific to me, but the last point is up for open discussion

[chriskrycho]

This is of interest to @scarradini.

[scarradini]

Author is probably useless unless you plan on doing any solo podcasts. I do not plan on doing any.

Category is only useful if we do single-theme podcasts; I could see us needing/using Religion, Tech, Art, Culture, Full Episode. If we plan on mixing it up consistently (as we have talked about), then I don't see it being needed.

Tag could be useful, if we are microtagging everything. I could see music, crowdfunding, movies, Christianity, politics, and more being stuff that we tag. I don't want to tag every proper noun (as is the habit of some), but there are things smaller than categories that will come up repeatedly.

So: No, maybe, yes.

[chriskrycho]

Agreed on author, definitely. If I do my own podcast, I'll do it somewhere else.

Since we can enable categories later, we can just turn that on if we find it useful at that point (it's pretty trivial).

We should think about the extent to which we want to tag. On my other site, I'm pretty much moving to using them as a sort orthogonal categorization method. So I have "sections" (categories) like Theology, Tech, etc. "Tags" are describing the kind of thing it is there, like a paper or a poem and so on. I'd be inclined to use tags here a little differently than that, as a sort of hashtag giving context, but I'd still like to minimize the number of them to some extent—give ourselves a hard limit of 12 or something. That way they remain useful over time. If we tag too much, we end up diluting the usefulness of them.

A few suggestions that way (starting with the list you offered):

• music
• crowdfunding
• movies
• Christianity
• politics
• technology
• ethics
• publishing

I think that's enough to start with (and we won't actually even have all of them to start with, only a subset). I'm also inclined to call them "topics" instead of tags. What do you think?

[scarradini]

I like the idea of putting a hard cap on number of topics. I like calling them topics. I think that list works nicely to start with, as well.

[chriskrycho]

Grand.

You can check out a current, close to functional, preview of the site here. You can click some of the links now!

[chriskrycho]

Site is live. It's not done, but it's live, and the templates all work quite nicely.