jeffreyhyer/nookandcrannydigest

The Nook & Cranny Digest

nookandcrannydigest's Issues

Migrate fonts to Netlify

Netlify is a screaming fast CDN and the servers hosting these assets remotely are slow in comparison. In order to minimize the page load time we should move them to Netlify. This also reduces the number of assets pulled from 3rd party servers so it's a win for security too.

• IcoMoon fonts should be downloaded locally and pushed to Netlify as static assets
• Web fonts should be downloaded locally and pushed to Netlify as static assets

Suggestion Box

JS (Vue?) powered suggestion box submits suggestions via the GitHub API as issues on this repository. This allows everything to be centrally managed by me.

Caveat: Use of the GitHub API to create issues requires use of a personal access token and unfortunately the permissions are not granular enough to limit the scope to a single repository so the token used technically has access to all my public repos (including being able to commit to the repo)

Alternative: Use a Google Form (or similar) to collect responses and manually add them as issues in GitHub for organization and prioritization. This alleviates the security concerns but adds an intermediate step that must be done. May be possible to combine this with IFTTT to automate moving suggestions from Google Sheets to GitHub issues.

Will have to investigate further.

Email Newsletter

Add a box to subscribe to an email newsletter (bi-monthly? monthly?) that features the latest posts on the site (footer?)

• Investigate pricing and features of popular email management services (Mailchimp, Mandrill, SendGrid, etc.)

Test Issue

This is just a test issue submitted via the API

Responsive Styles

Add media queries to enable viewing on various devices (tablets, phones, etc). As it stands, the site does not degrade/respond very well at all.

Fix OGP.me meta tags

Fix the meta tags describing the individual posts so they appear better on Twitter/FB/etc.

• Use the post title as the main header line when shared
• Add a description of the articles contents that shows up as a subheader when shared
• Add an image that can be used when sharing to social media (single one for the site? article specific image?)

Add a README

Add a README explaining what this project is, how it works, what it's built on, how to contribute if you feel so inclined, etc.

Add watermark to static images

Add a watermark to all the static image assets used in posts (past and future)

Tag Pages

Make the tag pages browseable

• Make the tags links on the index and on posts
• Style the tag pages and layout the template to match the rest of the site