Just as an example of just how bad my web design sense truly is, I've been agonizing for the last 2 hours about how best to display the following information on my digital garden notes:
published date
last updated date
status (how "complete" the note is)
read time
I've got last updated and read times in there, and it doesn't look bad. But I absolutely can't decide whether or not to put original publishing date in there, and whether to just use tags for the status versus a dedicated line of text. And, assuming that I want all that stuff actually in there, where would be the best place to put it and how it should be formatted.
The irony, of course, is that the whole point of a digital garden is to learn over time and have the site be fairly mutable as it (and I) grow.
This is why I should not be anywhere near a front-end. I can't even make the simplest decisions about information arrangement and layout of same.
@kaiserkiwi Thanks for the offer! I think I was able to finally come up with something that I'm happy with within the confines of the Quartz framework. I got all the dates on there that I wanted, and just decided to use multi-layer hashtags for the status (like status/PROTOTYPE) so that some of Quartz's tag features and search would work like I want.
Maybe later I'll devise some images or something to provide more of a visual signal about the status than just a hashtag.
But now that the offer of help is out there, I may take you up on that in the future! :bec_wink:
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