First Line

Context: you want to make the first line of a page in your Digital Garden useful

Forces:

• you have many pages in your digital garden
• a new reader might feel overwhelmed

Solutions:

• make the first line of every page a good intro/summary to the page (in combination with the page name. (See Designing Good Page Names.)
• if the page is a response/reaction to another page, include that in the first line
  • if you're following a structured taxonomy like IBIS, use the appropriate Class in the first line
• use the first line of a page as its Description in various meta tags. (See (2022-08-28) Twitter Cards for FluxGarden.)
• include (at least) the first line of the page in its RSS feed.
• include the first line of the page in previews of the page (FrontPage, Recent Changes, mouse-overs, etc.)