Requesting feedback on the plan for my new website

[kestrell]

Kes: I'm currently taking a course on web design, so I'm using it as an opportunity to collect some of my writing.
Questions for the audience:
1. What do you think of the outline and list of writings below?
2. Is there anything specific, not included in the list below, that you would like to see included on the new webpage?
The GitHub guide and the new essay are not online yet, so that will be new material. I'm trying very hard to keep the plan reasonable but, reasonable not being my strong suit, I might add more.
Also, I'm not too jazzed about the title, but I want it to use the words "disability" and "technology" for search engine reasons, or is that an outdated web design idea?

Title: Kestrell's Disability and Technology Resources

Main page:

About me section
I'm a blind writer, disability and technology advocate, and MIT graduate. My writing focuses on disability and technology, which can include images of disability in science fiction, assistive technology, and accessible books.
This section will include an image of a kestrel (the falcon) with alt text.

Second section containing unordered list of links to pages containing writing:

1. to my blog my blog
2. New essay about disability in spec fic
3. Quick Start Guide for Using Jaws with GitHub
4. What Good Writers Still Get Wrong about Blind People,
Part 1 ,
Part 2
and Part 3
5. My thesis Decloaking Disability: Images of Disability and Technology in Science Fiction Media
6. Bibliography of science fiction containing images of disability and technology
And, if I have the energy,
7. Covid-19 resources collected from my blog posts

Footer section:
Contact me
Link to old website Blind Bookworm Website

Comments

[dewline]

Search engine considerations - do the professionals call it "search engine optimisation" right now? - do still matter. Whether you put those keywords in the title, a line or two of coding of the page, or both is debatable. Whatever keywords you don't put in the title or the text of the finished page should probably go into a "keywords"-oriented line or two of code.

The planned structure of the web site as you set it up here makes sense to me.

[kestrell]

Thanks!

[jesse_the_k]

Makes sense!

Given your seemingly inexhaustible appetite for links to training, I suspect that item 3 is going to morph into "Quick Start Guides..."

I know zip about SEO, but a visible paragraph after the title which uses some relevant buzzwords would be good.

I know you can compose something less boring than: "Exploring assistive technology resources for screen reader users"

[kestrell]

Thanks! Yes, I definitely need a jazzier paragraph that will draw the search engine hits, but I've also hit a stumbling block in my GitHub guide, just when I thought I was almost finished.
It's the 3.3 step in this help doc
https://medium.com/@svinkle/publish-and-share-your-own-website-for-free-with-github-2eff049a1cb5
of naming the local path I don't understand.
When I did this step from the webpage interface, I think my username was already entered by default, so I eneded up with a folder named kestrell13.github.io/kestrell13 instead of the neater kestrell13.github.io that's is created in this doc.
BUt if "sites" is added, as in this current doc, why doesn't that get integrated into the full url, like that second kestrell13 did when I used th webpage interface?

Also, I'm probably making a hash of explaining what is confusing me. I had a rough night last night and I'm also sleep depped, so not very sharp this morning.

[jesse_the_k]

Wish I had a helpful answer here, but I'm github-ignorant.

[kestrell]

If I was smart, I would just stop worrying this bone and go back to the original project, which was just creating the !#%$#! webpage, but obviously, I'm too stubborn to be smart.

But hey, my stomach doesn't hate me today so, yeah! Alexx helped me fill out a survey form from Medicare yesterday, and three-fourths of it was about pain levels and mental health, how they interferedwith activites and quality of life, but it didn't offer any resources for finding support for either of these conditions. One of the last questions was about urine leakage, and then it got into whether one talked to a doctor, and it suggested surgery, and medications, etc. And I was yelling, "*This* is what Medicare is taking seriously enough to push spend money on?!!!".y

[jesse_the_k]

Jeez-o-Pete sounds like the American Society of Urologists sponsors the survey!