Sunbird

Welcome to my shed / some would call this a garden / others, a haiku

In the spirit of learning in public + learning to be open, here are my blog to-dos (and won't-dos), sandbox-style:

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To-dos

Aesthetic

• Create a custom bullet point
• Replace upvote with button
• Split posts into months
• Change the font to a cooler, sicker font
• Experiment with a dusty orange or teal palette (Link)
• Add some cutesy text decorations (Link)
• Change the font again because I messed up the last time
• I want the margins to be patterned or colourful

Homepage

• Turn the browse by tags section into a card
• Migrate the sunbird to keep the homepage textual
• Align everything to the left
• Give this page a permenant home on the homepage
• Would it be cute if everything was inside of a card? Or should I make them multiple cards to show off my grid skills?
• Make it a little harder for me to wince when I see my homepage on mobile
• IT'S TIME FOR AN OVERHAUL

Navigation

• The nav bar is a couple looking for a third (Added a guestbook)

Existing pages

• Change status updates into cards
• Simplify navigation
• Do 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
• /license

New blog

• Zeina dot bearblog dot dev AND zaina dot bearblog dot dev

Footer

• Move a bunch of stuff to the footer

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
• /arabic (combo of LTR and RTL might be a pain) (it should be fine actually, thanks Suliman) (I think I'll just do a regular post, rather than a page)
• Create custom cursors for the footer links (emoji trail hover options: birds, heart mail, magnifying glass or pin)
• What if there was a little red curtain on the homepage and then you click it and it reveals words? Now that I've written it down, it sounds tacky! (editor's note: it is, sugar)

Ideas I'm not smart enough to kill

• Tomato emoji for downvoting (let's make downvoting fun!!)

Pages on their deathbed

• Status page