Brainstorming how to share card info for in our hands cards (IOHC)
It's 2 pm, not 10 pm -- managed to sit down to write a blog post earlier today!
Something that's special to me about in our hands cards (as an aside I haven't decided whether to capitalize the name or not and it drives me crazy) is the context I'll share with each card. I think a lot about this aspect of the project, but my thoughts can go in circles if I don't get them down on paper. So today I'm just going to do a quick mock-up of what I am thinking.
Option A - No tables or databases displayed
Example post or page titles:
- Card #2024-067: Your kindness matters
- Card #2024-112: Stamped words around border
- Card #2032-440: Blue and purple wax print
Importance of this info: The purchaser and the recipient of the card will have the card number (and the date the card was finished). It seems logical to make the card number, a unique identifier, be the title of the space where one can find more info on the card.
Example tags and categories:
- wax print
- block print
- 2024 (example of when card was made)
- Canada (example of where card was made)
- Kenya (example of where card was made or materials came from)
- words and phrases
- cyanotype
- Animal Charity Evaluators (example of recipient organization)
- personal batch (cards to friends / family / people)
- batik (example of material used)
- animal (example of theme of card art)
Importance of this info: Tags help me create groups of cards that are organized by a shared characteristic. Tags also help website visitors quickly explore for the types of card that interest them.
Example of info on the page itself:
- The story behind the card
- Multiple pictures
- The materials that were used to make the card: paper, ink, fabric, printing, stamps, cardstock, envelope
- Information about the organization that the card supported, how they can learn more, how much was donated
- The specific reason the card was created (if applicable)
- If there ends up being any information about the purchaser or recipient (!!) that they are happy for me to share, I can do that too.
I interrupt this post to bring myself a very important PSA: I will most definitely need a good database for this project. I want each card to matter and for the story to last, which compels me to make a page or post for each card here in Bear. Bear is not a sales platform, and so I think I'll be selling the cards on Buy Me A Coffee (the shop feature). And there are a lot of moving parts--tracking each card's characteristics, tracking donations and purchases, yikes--which tells me that I need to set up a database, probably in Coda.io but perhaps in a Google Sheet.