I am at the stage where I am adding a lot of content to the Fitness Tracker application to get ready for the second beta test. As part of that, I’ve been redesigning the website and making use of a lot of data that I have put together over the last seven years. This data was really for my own purposes, meaning it was highly structured and didn’t have a lot of words. But my collection of strength training exercises had grown quite large over the years and so I had some seed data to work with.
Preparing it for the web proved to be another set of challenges. My first run on the data yielded really compelling meta descriptions like this:
description: ‘Advanced Kettlebell Windmill is a functional strength exercise targeting the abs.’
Or
description: ‘Dumbbell Turkish Get-Up is a functional strength exercise targeting the shoulders, core, glutes.’
Eight commits later and we’re at:
description: ‘Advanced Kettlebell Windmill builds strong core, while also engaging the butt, and back of legs.’
and
description: ‘Dumbbell Turkish Get-Up builds strong core, while also engaging the back of legs, and arms.’
It still needs some work, but within a few more commits I’ll have properly written meta descriptions generated based off of structured data. I’ll write up a proper tutorial once I have rebuilt this website - the problem with getting a little bit better at design is that holy cow, it hurts to write here and my code thingie doesn’t work at all on mobile. Whoops.