Do a spike of the blog

[mliebelt]

See https://github.com/mliebelt/mliebelts-blog/issues/58 for some context. The goal here is to do a minimal web site, that shows at least the following:

• Books can be rendered as before. (Take at least 10 books or so to show something)
  • Works, tried it. Layout is different, but can be adjusted. ✔
• Markdown has not to be changed at all.
  • Mostly. There may be some adjustments, but I hope. ✔
• Minimal changes to CSS, just to show that layout is possible.
• Layout / templates for
  • Main page: some text, reference to books.
  • Book overview: some text, list of books, excerpt for books (?)
  • Book detail: complete book very similar to current blog.
  • Started, text is ok. Links are partly working out of the box. Rest will come.
  • Managed to have the original layout again, including the image, without a change.

[mliebelt]

I was able to do the whole thing, the following is working:

• Main page, list of books
• link of book leads to book page
• book page is more or less the same as before, so that is mostly done.
• Automatic pages for tags (working), list of tags (working)
• Link from ISBN to Thalia is working.
• German date
• Tags are working out of the box, easy to expand.
• Book list layout: have the image there, some excerpt, nice layout of the content, ... The current list is nice, why not repeat that?
• Clicking on book covers opens the book (should be easy to do)

What is not working:

• No support for authors (but should be doable)
  • Link to correct page.
  • Have as default a list of books of that author (descending)
  • Have in the directory authors the option to define a page with additional information about the author.
• All authors page: should be doable, why not start on that? Not part of the original blog.
• Underline for links?: Original blog removed that, should be ok. Color is enough to show what is clickable.
• Backlink to all books: necessary or not? As long as only books are here in, perhaps that is ok. Or I move all content (books, blogs, perhaps something else ...) to the blog, so there will be theme pages then.