[Feature Request] UI appearance/functionality

[natebower]

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I was looking at our website, specifically our blog, and I’d like to provide some constructive feedback regarding the appearance/functionality of the UI.

Describe the solution you'd like to see

• I love that we now have a “Blog” tab/dropdown on the navbar, but it appears that the only way to navigate to the blog page itself is to then click on the “OpenSearch Blog” heading (both clicking on “Blog” and clicking the down arrow result in a dropdown). Should clicking on “Blog” take the user to the blog page (one click instead of two)? If not, should we format “Platform”, “Blog”, “Community”, and “Documentation” so that they don’t look like linked text, which generally implies navigation?

• Re: the blog dropdown, I would recommend positioning the most important element—the featured post—on the left, as this is what the user will read first. This featured post, technically being the most recent post, should probably also appear in the “most recent articles” list.

  • In terms of formatting, we should be using sentence case for headings across the UI (in most cases), so “Featured post”, and I would simplify “Most recent articles” to “Recent posts” (“posts” is more accurate than “articles” in this context). The same is true of “Community voices” (which looks like it could use a bit of white space above it) and “Featured blog posts” on the home page.

• On the blog page itself, I would recommend not using the large OpenSearch banner. There’s already a fair amount of white space at the top of the page, so the banner is essentially all the user sees, rather than the featured post, which the user needs to scroll down to find. Maybe we could combine the title and banner into a shorter banner that reads “OpenSearch Blog”?

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