Version 2
alexwilson opened this issue · comments
Todo list
- Introduce a styleguide in order to visualise the current use-cases of the site, and to allow iterative component development.
- Clean up CSS, migrate to either Bootstrap 4 or something else "Pure Sass" to cut out some of the cruft.
- Introduce new SB-brand footer.
- Potentially make header available as webservice?
- Migrate all articles to cards.
- Migrate all people to cards. (Hexagonal?)
- Remove, or refactor, unnecessary JS.
- Revisit colour scheme.
- Ensure that we're displaying the correct microdata, and that it's served dynamically by Jekyll.
- Introduce a better mechanism for sharing rich content in articles.
- New homepage layout emphasising first article, and subsequent items.
- Showcase partners.
- Refactor article page to use new Person card.
- Update to new fonts.
Instead of using Bootstrap, purecss.io could be used. It doesn't do much styling by itself, but it does grids and similar things which might be needed.
PureCSS.io could work, my preference is that we use something which can be imported via Sass, to both clean up our code and to reduce the weight of our CSS, whilst allowing us to enforce BEM syntax. Unfortunately I don't know what would work best for that..
Kicking this back off. I'd love to see some visual primatives from anybody remotely capable of design, on areas we could improve the site.
I'm still undecided as to PureCSS vs the alternatives. I've messed around with it for a few small projects and it works, works quite well even, however it doesn't work via Sass.
I'm quite partial to Bourbon--No not that kind of partial. http://bourbon.io/ Thoughts?
recently I've been using the Bulma framework as a base for my projects. It is flex-based, and does provide Sass for everything.
Do you have anything in mind for layout style, or colour scheme? I could mock something up
No firm ideas... Really something to run by some other people so we can figure something out. I think our current palette is something to start with, certainly a lot of these colours have worked for us over the years. Just we can probably live with fewer, and maybe play around with other visual elements.
What I want is to play with adding more space, bigger and prettier typography, and maybe the introduction of some imagery for the various pages of our site.
However realistically we have got to define what our goals are, especially with pages such as the homepage and the help pages, and should start optimizing around that. We've got a strong emphasis on a "Join now!" type of thing going right now, but we can be more of a resource for existing users as well as for those completely new to IRC.
Would love to hear more thoughts...