Blog improvement discussion

[hayleycd]

Hello team. I have been talking with our designer about potential improvements to the blog. I am opening this issue to discuss her feedback.

Here are some potential ways to improve the blog:

1. Introduce a "back button" on the article page to encourage people to navigate back and potentially keep reading.
2. On a "detail page" (individual blog post) would it be possible to show previews for other articles? Users can then keep reading without going back to the blog list view.
3. Would it be possible to use an "accordian style" on the blog. People could toggle to read more, but you don't ever leave the main page and can scroll to other articles/keep reading.
4. Should we always choose to include a picture in each blog entry? It could break up the text and maybe we could use them on the main blog page to add interest.
5. Investigate ways to adjust the background to help readability.

What are your thoughts?

[another-rex]

1. Introduce a "back button" on the article page to encourage people to navigate back and potentially keep reading.

I'm not sure I understand this, is it just an additional button to go back to the Blog list? If so I think we already have the Blog button at the top to go to the list, and the browser back button, so this is not necessary.

2. On a "detail page" (individual blog post) would it be possible to show previews for other articles? Users can then keep reading without going back to the blog list view.
3. Should we always choose to include a picture in each blog entry? It could break up the text and maybe we could use them on the main blog page to add interest.

Good ideas!

3. Would it be possible to use an "accordian style" on the blog. People could toggle to read more, but you don't ever leave the main page and can scroll to other articles/keep reading.

Hugo should have presets for this, but might be difficult to integrate it into the current site design wise (e.g. where to place it, having an accordion on the blog page when there's no accordion on any other pages might seem weird)

[zahraaalizadeh]

2. On a "detail page" (individual blog post) would it be possible to show previews for other articles? Users can then keep reading without going back to the blog list view.
3. Would it be possible to use an "accordian style" on the blog. People could toggle to read more, but you don't ever leave the main page and can scrol

@another-rex are we still interested in applying these improvements to blog? or considering the WIP work on updating the blog entries to be dynamic rather than static, is it sorta blocked?

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