[news] page design updates

[DrDrij]

• dates down the LHS column
• three types of "posts" including news, article, workshop

[DrDrij]

I have added example labels on news items, see below. I will comment them out though in the Markdown so that we can push updates to live and get to labelling in the next round.

[DrDrij]

Note: the labels are auto generated from "type" in the front-matter:

---
layout: post
title: "Africa summer course 2024"
author: Matt McKay
excerpt: QuantEcon has just delivered our Africa summer course
#type: news
---

[mmcky]

thanks @DrDrij. Is there a reason for the # in type? Just learning the syntax.

also I think it might be nice to do different colours for each type? What do you think?

[DrDrij]

Yes can do. It’s just commented out as they are examples - in case we wanted to update the live site before doing. If you could make a list of labels and colours I will add the logic.

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[mmcky]

Let's leave them black for now and I will make a list of colours.

Can we change Workshops to workshops for all lower case?

[DrDrij]

Yep you can put anything after type, and '' if it has a space.

Gee I should have named that key label or badge rather than type so it's clear. I might do that.

[mmcky]

• update news page for tags workshop, news, and article

[DrDrij]

Thanks for your patience here! It was nearly there. This time it allows for multiple tags per post. How's this @mmcky?

An example of frontmatter (specifically, YAML frontmatter) at the top of HTML or more commonly md file.

The output would look like:

And just out of interest the liquid that generates it:

[DrDrij]

I have added a hash to comment out the tag for the latest news item so that no tags will show.

@mmcky You've listed 3 types of tags. Would you like me to go through and see if I can apply them to some of the recent posts?

[DrDrij]

PR set to go.