Home Page

[mattbishop]

@zapscribbles I have updated home.md to have the benefits statements. It's ready for your styling efforts.

[zapscribbles]

@mattbishop I've completed a first pass at the home page, check it out and let me know what you think!

Some things for you to note/do:

• [x] The header menu items at the top are there just for testing right now - we can add/remove them as pages are ready to be viewable by the public (just by adding/removing the eleventyNavigation item in the front matter for each page)
• [ ] The image at the top of the page - this is just a placeholder. I was thinking I'll build an animation here, perhaps showing post its coming together like they would when event storming? Open to ideas here, something to add a little "juice" to the top of the page
• [x] Because the home page naturally has a different layout to other pages, I couldn't use your raw md file for the content. Instead, I pasted it into an njk file. You should see where it has all ended up (most of it in the body of the file, the feature list in front matter) but feel free to edit words as needed. The other pages will have a simpler layout, so we should be fine with md files for those.
• [x] I had a go at choosing icons for the features, but only found two that made sense to me. You will probably be better at figuring out what icons work best here - head to fontawesome.com and see if you can find icons that are best suited to each feature. You have access to all of them as I have a Pro license. Choose the "solid" version, and paste the icon HTML into the list in front matter
• [x] I added a basic footer, but let me know if there is anything specific you want in there
• [x] I wasn't sure what to do with the sidebar content you had, about event sourcing since in the 1400s. Any thoughts on where you see this going?
• [x] This should be fully mobile responsive, so check it out on both mobile and desktop

[mattbishop]

This is all coming together well.

• I figured that the home page would not stay markdown, but since it won't change that often, it's all right.
• Animation would be fun, let's talk about that
• I will work through the icons and send you some suggestions.
• Footer, thanks!
• Sidebar, may not be a thing, though the 1400s text should go somewhere. Over the years I have found that explanation to be really helpful, so perhaps I should put it in the "What is Event Sourcing" section of the home page.
• Mobile looks all right, the header sizes are different.

Overall, need to address markdown lists and tables.

[zapscribbles]

I think the only outstanding item here is the animation. I had a thought to have post its fly in from off screen and place them selves appropriately like when event storming. I'm just worried it doesn't make sense, as the tool is more about storing these events than the event storming process itself. Let me know what you think, open to other animation ideas or put together a static image (I'm handy with Illustrator!)

[zapscribbles]

We're a bit low on time now, I'm thinking of scrapping the animation idea for now and circling back to it at a later stage if necessary

[mattbishop]

Home page is good, we need to have some discussions about an animation anyways. Will file a ticket for post-launch.