Revamp the home page to make it a better landing page

geerlingguy commented 4 years ago

Goals:

Make social / follow links more obvious (RSS, Twitter, YouTube, Instagram at least)
Make books more prominent (Ansible for DevOps, Ansible for Kubernetes)
Maybe highlight SaaS offerings that I maintain (Hosted Apache Solr, Server Check.in)?
Show at least one blog post summary on landing page (link out to full blog listing)
Maybe don't show 'projects' anymore (but leave them for historic purposes?) — have to mull this over more...

Summary: I migrated the home page as-is in #44, but after thinking about it more, and also after seeing @elezar's suggestion (see #44), I think it might be good to reconfigure the home page a bit, to establish a little better presence and focus on CTAs that are relevant to someone interested in my work.

This is my current home page (in dark mode):

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And this is another page that caught my eye for its simplicity:

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elazar commented 4 years ago

@geerlingguy Wrong @elazar. :wink:

geerlingguy commented 4 years ago

D'oh! Sorry to @elezar, but hello from St. Louis, Missouri and I hope you're doing well!

geerlingguy commented 4 years ago

I've done the first little bit; removed the Projects block, popped in a social links block, and made the Blog Posts block rise up a little in prominence:

geerlingguy commented 2 years ago

Going to mark this as fixed... for now at least. I opened #137 as another small improvement, after tweaking the home page text a bit.

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Revamp the home page to make it a better landing page #47