Redesigned the home page, made various tweaks.

_includes/sidebar.html

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+<div class="about-me">
+    <h2>About me</h2>
+    <span itemprop="author" itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person"></span>
+    <p><a href="/author/forrest-brown.html">Forrest Brown</a> is the creator of Sticky Weather and <a href="https://storiesforearth.com" target="_blank">Stories for Earth</a>, a podcast and website about all things climate change in pop culture. His nonfiction has appeared in <em><a href="https://www.facingsouth.org/2023/07/ev-mega-deals-pit-states-against-souths-rural-communities" target="_blank">Facing South</a></em> and the <em><a href="https://longnow.org/ideas/in-the-ministry-for-the-future-new-ideas-from-ancient-wisdom/" target="_blank">Long Now Foundation</a></em>, and his short story "<a href="https://thewritelaunch.com/2020/03/keep-going/" target="_blank">Keep Going</a>" was featured in <em>The Write Launch</em>. He lives in Decatur, GA with his wife and cats.</p>
+</div>
+<div class="homepage-subscribe">
+    <form
+      action="https://buttondown.email/api/emails/embed-subscribe/stickyweather"
+      method="post"
+      target="popupwindow"
+      onsubmit="window.open('https://buttondown.email/stickyweather', 'popupwindow')"
+      class="embeddable-buttondown-form"
+    >
+      <h2 id="sidebar-subscribe-header">Subscribe to the newsletter</h2>
+      <label for="bd-email"><p>It's free, and you get new posts in your inbox. No emails about anything else, ever, and I won't beg you to become a paid subscriber.</p></label>
+      <input type="email" name="email" id="bd-email" placeholder="Your email address" /><br>
+
+      <input type="submit" value="Subscribe" id="subscribe-button"  />
+      <p>
+        <a href="https://buttondown.email/refer/stickyweather" target="_blank" id="powered-by">Powered by Buttondown.</a>
+      </p>
+    </form>
+  </div>

_layouts/author.html

@@ -28,10 +28,9 @@
           </figure>
         <div>
           <h1>{{ page.author | escape }}</h1>
-          <h4 style="text-transform: capitalize;">{{ page.jobtitle | escape }}</h4>
           <div>
             {%- if page.social -%}
-            <p><strong>Follow {{ page.author | escape }}:</strong> <a href="{{ page.social | escape }}" target="_blank">Mastodon</a></p>
+            <p><strong>Follow:</strong> <a href="https://theatl.social/@frrstbrwn" target="_blank">Mastodon</a>, <a href="https://bsky.app/profile/frrstbrwn.bsky.social" target="_blank">Bluesky</a></p>
             {%- endif -%}
           </div>
         </div>

_layouts/home.html

@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ <h1 class="page-heading">{{ page.title }}</h1>
 
   {{ content }}
 
-
+<div class="recent-posts">
   {% if site.paginate %}
     {% assign posts = paginator.posts %}
   {% else %}
@@ -56,5 +56,10 @@ <h3>
     {%- endif %}
 
   {%- endif -%}
+</div>
+
+<div class="sidebar">
+  {% include sidebar.html %}
+</div>
 
 </div>

_sass/minima/_layout.scss

@@ -223,6 +223,7 @@
 
 .post-list-heading {
   @include relative-font-size(1.75);
+  border-bottom: solid lightgray 1px;
 }
 
 .post-list {

_sass/minima/custom-styles.scss

@@ -91,4 +91,98 @@ footer {
   padding: 1% 0.5% 1%;
   margin-top: 0.5em;
   margin-bottom: 0.5em;
-}
+}
+
+// Begin homepage styling
+.home {
+  display: grid;
+    grid-template-columns: 4fr 1fr;
+    grid-template-rows: auto;
+    align-items: start;
+    grid-template-areas:
+      "recent-posts sidebar";
+}
+
+.recent-posts {
+  grid-area: recent-posts;
+  border-right: solid lightgray 1px;
+  margin-right: 1em;
+  padding-right: 1em;
+}
+
+.sidebar {
+  grid-area: sidebar;
+}
+
+.homepage-subscribe {
+  margin-top: 1em;
+  border-bottom: solid lightgray 1px;
+
+  #sidebar-subscribe-header {
+    font-size: $base-font-size * 1.1;
+  }
+
+  p {
+    font-size: $base-font-size * 1;
+  }
+
+  #subscribe-button {
+    background-color: #FF6D1E;
+    color: white;
+    border: none;
+    border-radius: 8px;
+    font-size: 14px;
+    font-weight: 500;
+    padding: 2% 2% 2%;
+    margin-top: 0.5em;
+    margin-bottom: 0.5em;
+  }
+
+}
+
+@include media-query($on-palm) {
+  .home {
+      display: grid;
+      grid-template-columns: 1fr;
+      grid-template-rows: auto;
+      grid-template-areas:
+          "recent-posts"
+          "sidebar";
+  }
+
+  .recent-posts {
+    border-right: none;
+  }
+
+  .sidebar {
+    padding-left: 0;
+  }
+
+  .about-me {
+    font-size: $base-font-size;
+
+    h2 {
+      font-size: relative-font-size(1.75);
+    }
+
+  }
+
+  .homepage-subscribe {
+    #sidebar-subscribe-header {
+      font-size: $base-font-size;
+    }
+  }
+
+}
+.about-me {
+  border-bottom: solid lightgray 1px;
+  font-size: $base-font-size * 1;
+
+  h2 {
+    font-size: $base-font-size * 1.1;
+    border-bottom: solid lightgray 1px;
+  }
+
+}
+
+// End homepage styling

author/forrest-brown.md

@@ -6,4 +6,4 @@ gravatarimage: https://gravatar.com/avatar/c3737b29db27f55cff00c383997f1260?size
 social: https://theatl.social/@frrstbrwn
 jobtitle: founder
 ---
-Forrest Brown is the founder of Sticky Weather and the former creator and host of the podcast [Stories for Earth](https://storiesforearth.com){:target="_blank"}. Forrest has also contributed to [Facing South](https://www.facingsouth.org/2023/07/ev-mega-deals-pit-states-against-souths-rural-communities){:target="_blank"} and the [Long Now Foundation](https://longnow.org/ideas/in-the-ministry-for-the-future-new-ideas-from-ancient-wisdom/){:target="_blank"}. He lives in Decatur, GA with his wife and cats.
+Forrest Brown is the creator of Sticky Weather and <a href="https://storiesforearth.com" target="_blank">Stories for Earth</a>, a podcast and website about all things climate change in pop culture. His nonfiction has appeared in <em><a href="https://www.facingsouth.org/2023/07/ev-mega-deals-pit-states-against-souths-rural-communities" target="_blank">Facing South</a></em> and the <em><a href="https://longnow.org/ideas/in-the-ministry-for-the-future-new-ideas-from-ancient-wisdom/" target="_blank">Long Now Foundation</a></em>, and his short story "<a href="https://thewritelaunch.com/2020/03/keep-going/" target="_blank">Keep Going</a>" was featured in <em>The Write Launch</em>. He lives in Decatur, GA with his wife and cats.

index.md

@@ -6,4 +6,5 @@
 # See: https://jekyllrb.com/docs/themes/#overriding-theme-defaults
 #
 layout: home
+list_title: Recent posts
 ---