Developing the site structure

Developing the site structure

Activity lead:

Danielle Garratt

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Developmental outcomes:

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Prerequisites:

Before you can pick tasks from this activity, you will need:

• Trainee certification: Intern, or higher.
• Team experience: Member of the RnD team.

A message from the activity lead

Could you enhance the site structure under the hood using Jekyll? Do you have ideas on how to improve the code written in Liquid syntax? Although I’ve learnt a lot about using Jekyll since the start of Project27 Skills, there are a few issues persisting for longer than I’d like them to persist. I track these issues on GitHub, but so far made little progress about resolving the tickets. If you can help, please do.

Who am I looking for?

Somebody, who:

• has past experience with Jekyll or Liquid, or learns quickly;
• can solve issues I couldn’t, and happy to teach me.

What am I looking for?

Some of the ToDo items that I’d happily delegate to a helpful volunteer, include :

• finding Jekyll solutions of issues I track;
• raising new issues, suggestions of optimisation around the Jekyll site structure, and the Liquid syntax currently used;
• researching ways to optimise the code base and build for change, including future requirements and features.

Tasks

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