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GFSC site migration to Hugo
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[Bug]: structure of themes / catagories is not sufficient to deliver current design #118

Closed aaaaargZombies closed 1 year ago

aaaaargZombies commented 1 year ago

Description

There is a confusing relationship between theme and category.

content/our-work
├── category
│   ├── consultancyresearch.md
│   ├── designbranding.md
│   ├── educationtraining.md
│   ├── flagship.md
│   ├── _index.md
│   └── software.md
├── _index.md
└── theme
    ├── antiracism.md
    ├── digitalautonomy.md
    ├── disabilityactivism.md
    ├── environment.md
    ├── hulmeandmanchester.md
    ├── _index.md
    ├── localhistory.md
    ├── mutualaid.md
    └── transliberation.md

Currently https://gfsc.pages.dev/studio/ contains different sections for consultancy and research but the code base unifies these in categories.

undividual commented 1 year ago

I don't think I quite understand this issue, sorry! Is this issue code based or content based? From a content perspective the difference between themes and categories seems perfectly clear.

aaaaargZombies commented 1 year ago

sorry shouldn't have just dumped that output into the issue.

In English, we have a bunch of "tags" that filter projects into subsets.

For some reason we have types of tags [category, theme]. combined they produce the following options

The studio page links to three subsets

So we'd probably be able to use "software" from above but we need to split "consultancyresearch" apart. I'm not really sure what the difference is, I'd like someone who worked on the projects to help with the distinction.

Maybe there's a wider question about why it's structured like this but that's the minimum task to get launched I think.

aaaaargZombies commented 1 year ago

ok so with that in mind this is the list of projects that have consultancyresearch assigned and need splitting.

Other projects might also be suitable for either Consultancy and coaching or Research

aaaaargZombies commented 1 year ago

OR we decide the distinction in the design does not accurately describe our work?

undividual commented 1 year ago

Hmm, I'm still not sure I understand...

Basically: Consultancy and Research Design and Branding Education and Training Our Flagship Projects Software Development

Should be CATEGORIES.

Everything else is a THEME.

So 'software' should be 'software development' and it's a category.

Basically they're just two different classification systems, because some people might come to our website like 'idgaf about the area these projects are in, I just wanna see what design and branding experience these guys have'

While someone else might be like 'it's super important I work with someone who understand the issues my community faces so I want to see all the projects this studio have done that relate to disability' (but they don't care what kind of work it was)

That's why there's this distinction. The themes are promoted on the homepage (though I now see they're not there?! What happened? Am I getting confused?!), and the categories are promoted at the top of the our work page. Each theme and category links out to a landing page that explains it, and has a list of projects tagged with that theme/category.

Maybe this is just all repeating what you already know? I just don't quite understand the problem I think, so maybe someone else should help 😅

aaaaargZombies commented 1 year ago

ok I'm happy that themes / category is a useful data structure. before I was thinking these are just filters. implement them in the same way, display them differently if we like. But if we know they will always be displayed differently it does save some work later...

Sorry I've created two conversations really.

Main concern / blocking issue.

If you go to https://gfsc.pages.dev/studio/ and click through the links to the project list. 2 of the sections are the same list. https://gfsc.pages.dev/our-work/consultancy-research/ So we need to either create a distinction or change the page.

The themes are promoted on the homepage (though I now see they're not there?! What happened? Am I getting confused?!),

We pulled them out because they were broken, part of the launch incrementally plan, so we should have them in the future.

undividual commented 1 year ago

Ahaaaa I understand now! (Also thanks for the reminder — hope they can be re-instated and it doesn't just end up being a 'one day' job as I think having them on the homepage is important! People can find the venn diagram quite abstract and the themes make our work more concrete)

We may need @kimadactyl's input here, but my feeling is that the CORRECT breakdown is Consultancy and coaching Research

This does potentially raise a bigger issue here: https://gfsc.pages.dev/our-work/

I think the first category box should be "Consultancy and coaching" and then we either need a new box for "Research" or we consider that Education and training falls under consultancy and coaching, and make that box into research. (And retag projects accordingly). This is one of those copy inconsistencies that has become a structural challenge I think! Thank you for breaking it down for me!

kimadactyl commented 1 year ago

Need to come back and review this properly but please can the tags be hyphenated :)

aaaaargZombies commented 1 year ago

fear not, those are just filenames,

localhistory.md under contains the following data

---
title: "Local History"
key: "local-history"
summary: "Projects which help to highlight, display, manage, and where possible expand the histories of different groups of people or locations."
---
We have worked on a number of projects which seek to highlight, display, and where possible, expand the histories of different groups of people or locations. Learning about the past experiences of our area or community can teach us about where we've come from, and about where we could go in future — as well as simply being fascinating collections of stories and facts about areas we care about. But so often, the histories of smaller organisations and communities end up being stored away in literal or metaphorical attics, where they are challenging to access, poorly maintained, and in danger of being lost for good. We work with organisations and individuals to help unearth, research, tidy, and present worthy histories in a compelling and engaging way, which both uplifts their existing community, and welcomes new people in.
kimadactyl commented 1 year ago

OK I think i get the issue. I think "consultancy and coaching" is wrong, im not sure when "coaching" crept in - i think these are the top level headings:

aaaaargZombies commented 1 year ago

So this gives us a studio page that looks like

requirements for this are

kimadactyl commented 1 year ago

yeah, i would like to be eitehr development or software and not a mix of both too. interested whcih term @erbridge and @katjam prefers here

aaaaargZombies commented 1 year ago

I've implemented what I've described above here https://studio-restructure.gfsc.pages.dev/studio/

How does that sit with the categories now?

katjam commented 1 year ago

I prefer software or software development. Development on its own can be ambiguous.

kimadactyl commented 1 year ago

ok - lets call it "Software Development" in prose/titles/buttons and then keep "software" as the tag/slug?