home page could use a photo and short summary

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Instructor Training

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home page could use a photo and short summary #527

Closed raynamharris closed 2 years ago

raynamharris commented 7 years ago

You know how paste a hyperlink to a website on social media, sometimes you get a little pop-up window with a photo and some text from the website? Here are two examples of pop-ups from the instructor training website.

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I think we could improve our home page by adding:

a single image with both the SWC and DC logos
an opening sentence that states the mission/vision/purpose/objective of instructor training.

What do you think? Does anyone else agree that we should add these two things

weaverbel commented 7 years ago

I agree @raynamharris but won't volunteer to try to add images as that won't end well!

ChristinaLK commented 7 years ago

I agree, if we can figure out how to produce the outcome you're looking for. @raynamharris do you know if we need to tag/flag that material specifically? Does it go in the header?

fmichonneau commented 7 years ago

Resources for facebook are listed here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/sharing/webmasters and for twitter here: https://developer.twitter.com/en/docs/tweets/optimize-with-cards/guides/getting-started

From a quick glance, it looks like twitter will use the facebook system (OpenGraph) if it doesn't detect twitter specific tags.

A couple more thoughts:

this changes should probably affect not only the templates for the lessons (including instructor training) but also the main sites (e.g. software-carpentry.org)
I think the main site has recently implemented this, but I also think that the image used (the logo) is on transparent background which doesn't look good on twitter dark background for instance.

ChristinaLK commented 7 years ago

Thanks @fmichonneau!

raynamharris commented 7 years ago

Thanks @fmichonneau! Yes, the old SWC sites used to have the logo on them, so that would appear on facebook and such.

ErinBecker commented 6 years ago

I think this is a good idea. I don't know anything about Facebook, however. Could someone put together a PR to implement this?

weaverbel commented 6 years ago

I think this is done via the excerpt text in the page header @ErinBecker - Jonah and I added excerpt text to all SWC pages so that real text rather than boilerplate text would appear in Twitter grabs.

brownsarahm commented 2 years ago

This has been determined to be an issue for styles in #1246 so we'll get those updates when the styles PR is merged and the updates propagate. I'll close this here.