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Few implementation options:

A. Use a desktop editor and manually store MD & generated HTML in the SQL database
B. Create an Admin area (secured by Google Auth) & edit/save/commit documents there
C. Edit them on GitHub, commit to GitHub, make web service to pull from GitHub

Option A is very gitter-done but could work nicely. I could add scheduling, search, and the like quite easily. I could architect the database to have history tracking.

Option B is nice in that it keeps it all in one place. I would need to research Google Auth, find a Markdown editor (or revisit the one I wrote), and potentially find a server-side Markdown renderer (of which I've used a few but I know the landscape has changed; potentially because client-side renderer may provide an HTML string I could AJAX to the server).

Option C is nice in that they have a good editor & built-in MD diffing. I would need a server-side git/GitHub library to retrieve the documents and a server-side Markdown renderer. This would require syncing documents to SQL for the reasons below.

Regardless of which option I go with, I could store the documents in GitHub for easy history tracking and diffing. If I did that, I would need to copy them to SQL for more efficient searching and would somewhat negate scheduling--anyone could read WIP/scheduled documents ahead of time (not a big deal).

It'd also be nice to have a preview feature so I can make sure the site's styles agree with the generated HTML.

To consider:

• Display related skills in groups so visitors see the granular breakdown of skills. e.g. ASP.NET => 3/5, ASP.NET MVC => 4/5, C# => 5/5
  • Downside: List same skill multiple times
• Sort by something besides alpha; maybe "relevance"
• Only allow 1 tag filter; not enough skills per tag
  • Downside: does not demonstrate tags are many-to-many very well
• Always show skill level; definitely need to at least do this on mobile
• Make the page smaller in general

Document how the app is architected

• Consider doing away with the header/footer drop shadows
  • If nothing else, header drop shadow should only show when the page is scrolled
• Possibly remove subtle background. Not sure what to replace it with so minimal content still pops.
• Nav should highlight current page

Tag by focus, many-to-many

• App
• Database
• Desktop
• Framework
• Hardware
• Language
• Library
• Server
• Tool
• Web

Provide

• Logos
• Experience 1-5

Allow live filter