Welcome to my shed / some would call it a garden / others, a haiku
In the spirit of A) learning in public and B) learning what it means to be open, I'm sharing my blog to-dos, sandbox-style.
I have an iPhone shortcut set up on my home screen that takes me to this post. With the help of Kami's bookmarklet, it should be fairly easy for me to dump my ideas here. That's the Big Idea, anyway.
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Metamorphosis matrix
🐛 = Foundation
🌱 = Structure
🦋 = Nice touches
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To-dos
Aesthetic
Create a custom bullet pointReplace upvote with buttonSplit posts into monthsChange the font to a cooler, sicker fontExperiment with a dusty orange or teal palette (Link)Add some cutesy text decorations (Link)
Homepage
Turn the browse by tags section into a cardMigrate the sunbird to keep the homepage textualAlign everything to the leftGive this page a permenant home on the homepageWould it be cute if everything was inside of a card? Or should I make them multiple cards to show off my grid skills?
Existing pages
Change status updates into cardsSimplify navigationDo something with the Meet the Sunbird page- 🌱 Turn images into Polaroids or add a zoom feature
- 🦋 Override the /404 with a fun message (root: .not-found {})
New pages
Add an easter egg page- 🦋 Figure out how to add a fall-back static page for offline mode
- 🦋 Explore image maps
- 🦋 /arabic (combo of LTR and RTL might be a pain)
- 🦋 /license
Footer
Move a bunch of stuff to the footer- 🌱 Create custom cursors for the footer links (emoji trail hover options: birds, heart mail, magnifying glass or pin)
Code stuff
- 🦋 Quick view of word count on each of my published posts (Is this a JS plug-in situation? Lol I’m just saying words)
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Won't-dos
Ideas I've killed
- /links
- /user-manual
- Link hover highlights the link in a fun colour