Improve Look and feel of footer

[Amorpheuz]

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Courtesy of the minima theme, our current site footer is pretty plain and simple. It would be great to have it look as information-rich as the Wordpress Blog.

Describe the solution you'd like
The current Wordpress theme's footer contains a ton of information in it. We should add this information to the Jekyll site's footer too!

Additional context
Be sure to take care of both the desktop and the mobile views for the same and have the correct links.

[Amorpheuz]

The sign-up for the newsletter component should be kept as a separate thing in my opinion.

[Amorpheuz]

Part of the issues mentioned by @karx in #2. He is also interested in tackling the issue and looking for suggestions in case any are missed.

[ultrinnan]

Hello, can I help with this?
In my opinion there should be more space between menu items, and on the right column we can put any widget, f.e. newsletter subscription

[Amorpheuz]

Hey! @ultrinnan Sure you can help, I hope you and @karx can collaborate on the widget idea and figure it out.

[karx]

@ultrinnan Sounds great !
I am the loop. Let's get building

[ultrinnan]

@karx do you have some subscription code? like mailchimp or something similar that we can use for widget?

[karx]

Yes I have a MailChimp account we could use for testing and development, but that would not be enough. Let's try and understand how the current sub box works and try and use that itself as functional part.

[ultrinnan]

ok, so to summarise - I will change footer sizings and will add widget box for subscription, right?

[karx]

For the Footer.
Yes, that would entail updating/creating the footer.html template which would exist in the _includes directory of this page.

[karx]

And for the newsletter subscription, a good way could be to create it as an include.
Say: _includes/newseller-subscription.html (Custom you will have to create)

And also updating the layout of the home page, _layouts/home.html, to use this.

[karx]

The files we need to edit like
_layout/home.html, _includes/footer.html are imported from the gem, we use for our theme minima.

#2 Aims to bring these files over to our working jekyll directory so it is eaiser for us to make updates and have better clarity in this repo.

In the meantime, you dont have to wait up, feel free to make/copy/create all the needed in _layouts and _includes

There are a bunch of folks in this repo who would help out incase of any merge conflicts (rare these days) or any similar problems.
Also Feel free to ping me.

[ultrinnan]

ok, got it