Could we add in the paketo.io header to the top of this page so it doesn't feel like a completely separate page, and provide some way to navigate back to the paketo website?

I noticed that shell text is not scrollable horizontally. Instead, the shell text block is expanded to fit all the text and takes up lots of vertical space. This is super noticeable on mobile:

I'm not sure how to go about fixing this because editing CSS in the blog is notoriously tedious.

I'm wondering if we could somehow link new blog posts to a discussion thread in this repo.

So the idea would be everytime a new blog post is created, a discussion thread linking to the blog post is created and people can use that to discuss the post. An example I've seen of this is the concourse blog (ex. https://blog.concourse-ci.org/running-docker-in-concourse/).

What happened?

• What were you attempting to do?
  I was trying to post one of the blog entries on LinkedIn.

• What did you expect to happen?
  I expected the post to include a picture that was relevant to the post.

• What was the actual behavior? Please provide log output, if possible.
  The image that LinkedIn chose to highlight was the author's portrait, which while important to see, was probably not the most relevant thing for folks to notice when they viewed my social media post.

Possible Fix

I believe the issue is that we don't have metadata at the top of the page that helps LinkedIn pick a good image. They outline in their docs that they are looking for an og:image meta tag. We have tags for og:site_name, og:title, and og:url, but not og:image.

We should probably add this field and allow authors to set it in the post metadata. We should probably also include a good default image like the Paketo logo.

The current set of posts all include a common set of links at the end. We can pull those out into the footer for the page so that authors don't need to include it in their posts.

Providing an RSS feed allows people who care about buildpacks to get content pushed to their feed without having to poll the site manually.

I'm not familiar with Hugo, but it has docs on providing an RSS feed https://github.com/gohugoio/hugo/blob/master/docs/content/en/templates/rss.md

It would be cool if clicking on an author's pic would take you to a page that had details about the author and listed the posts they've written.

A recent blog post includes a table that was rendered without borders. The text is displayed with too many lines due to the width of the table, which is set by the parent. Until now, we never thought about how tables should look on the blog.

What happened?

We should add google analytics integration to this website so we can better measure effectiveness of our blog posts and perhaps also get insight into where the posts are being shared out.

The Paketo website already has this

There should be a link on the blogs homepage that takes people to detailed instructions on how to contribute a blog post. This should include the following points:

• Where do you add a new post?
• What is the PR/Review process?
• What kind of content are we looking for?
• How do I view my blog post locally / how do I do local Hugo development?
• Can I contribute things other than blog posts?

I am more than happy to add or remove parameters after some further discussion.

Now that packit supports dependency mappings, it might be cool to write a blog post that shows off how they work. The Paketo docs already document this, but a little walkthrough example with some clone-able code could be nice.

What happened?

• What were you attempting to do?
  I was trying to view the blog on my phone.

• What did you expect to happen?
  I expected it to be readable. And for the most part, it is.

• What was the actual behavior? Please provide log output, if possible.
  Images and headers seem way out of proportion.

Checklist

• I have included steps for reproduction.

Let's add a blog post to let folks know about the PHP rewrite we just finished!

What happened?

• What were you attempting to do?
  I wanted to share a post on Reddit.

• What did you expect to happen?
  I expected there to be a button that let me do this easily.

• What was the actual behavior? Please provide log output, if possible.
  There was no button, and so I didn't share it.

Checklist

• I have included steps for reproduction.

With the introduction of zero config for httpd and nginx we should write a blog highlighting this new workflow.