Opensource.guide: Add link to the next step at the bottom of the page

[benbalter]

When you scroll to the bottom of an article, you're left with somewhat of a dead end. You have to traverse back up to the home page, remember what article you just read, and then click the one after that. Instead, at the end of each article, it'd be awesome if there were a link to the "next step".

[sophshep]

We had this earlier on, but took out since many of these guides are meant to be standalone subject matters, rather than chronological. Would a "view other guides" call-to-action make sense to help it feel like less of a dead end? Another idea would be to have the navigation fixed so that the link back to the homepage is always present.

[benbalter]

Would a "view other guides" call-to-action make sense to help it feel like less of a dead end? Another idea would be to have the navigation fixed so that the link back to the homepage is always present.

:+1: to either approach. It could be that browsing the site isn't the ideal use case (e.g., being linked to a specific doc, reading it, doing something is what we want to optimize for).

[MikeMcQuaid]

CC @nayafia to think about this when she's back.

[nayafia]

+1 to @sophshep's comments: since these are now standalone guides, we don't necessarily want to link to the "next" guide. But it would be good to give people something to do at the end.

Would a "view other guides" call-to-action make sense to help it feel like less of a dead end? Another idea would be to have the navigation fixed so that the link back to the homepage is always present

I'm also :thumbsup: on either approach. "View related guides" would be ideal, but we don't currently have perfect content for all guides (ex. Legal doesn't really have similar guides).

Let's start with a simple link back to the homepage?

[mkermani144]

Any approaches to solve this issue?

[maddhruv]

any scope giving an articles navigation option either at the top of every page or making a column at the right?

[nayafia]

@mkermani144 @midhruvjaink this issue is still open, if someone would like to start by adding a link back to the homepage at the end of a guide.

I'd also be interested in seeing approaches to a fixed navigation with a link back to the homepage (if you do this, try starting with a quick mockup before doing work!).

[guptasaloni]

you can just make a button and write code to redirect it on the home page

[guptasaloni]

And if u are facing that much problem u can see the most popular website in that a link is there to redirect the home page and u can see the code by inspect it

[nayafia]

Closing in favor of https://github.com/github/opensource.guide/issues/427. I wrote a fresher version so it's clearer what needs to be done.