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The page title is way more important than the title of the microblog, so
make sure it gets prominent treatment.
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The first post has information on what to expect from this site. Since
it will scroll further and further down, make sure we reference it for
quick access.
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Currently we allow empty post titles, gracefully falling back to a
default value. This increases complexity somewhat. Since we think we'll
always be able to think of a title for a post, make it mandatory for now
to provide one.
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Currently, we pad certain elements with manual interpunct spacers that
are defined in the templates themselves. This is suboptimal for a number
of reasons. Templates should be used for textual or semantic data, not
presentation. Additionally, we have no good control over how whitespace
characters will end up being rendered. Adding or deleting spacers is a
nightmare.
To fix this, use CSS to render spacers instead. To that end, introduce a
couple of HTML elements in the top banner and keep supplementary links
in a list inside a <nav> element. Add a spacer mixin that can be applied
to any element that needs it.
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Currently we show the slogan both on the index as well as all sub-pages.
This needs some special handling in the template, since the page
description for the index is empty (the slogan takes its place).
Simplify the template further by making sure description is always set,
and set it to the slogan only on the index page.
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This is the first in a series of commits that will attempt to clean up
and simplify the templates, most of which were put together hastily.
One particular egregious example of this is how Tera blocks are employed
to set per-page titles, provide banner descriptions and links, and
include additional RSS feeds. These elements are all outside the normal
'content' block provided by the base template. Almost always they
contain only one line of text.
This solution was chosen because there did not seem to be a cleaner way
of having per-page variables in the base template. This is a problem
especially for the 'single' and list' taxonomy pages which do not even
have front matter (and therefore cannot carry additional metadata).
Furthermore, we want to keep each page's front matter as minimal as
possible and avoid hard-coding a post description of "post № <X>".
Instead rely on the fact that each type of page is identifiable in the
base template by the variables that are set in it. The index carries the
'section' variable, pages carry 'page', a single taxonomy term carries
'term', and a single taxonomy carries 'terms'.
Using this information we can consolidate all these blocks into the base
template in a simple and clean way.
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