Howdy Steve, Blick, and WeatherCat fans,
We'll probably have as many opinions as replies, so anything will be a compromise. It is your template, so whichever you think is best is probably what you should post.
Well, actually I don't think about it that way. My personal website is one thing, but the template should be as much a consensus as possible. It's purpose is to allow someone new to WeatherCat to get their feet wet with templates, so it should be as "plain vanilla" as possible so that it has the maximum general appeal.
As for my opinion, I consider a record to be a statistic. I don't think anyone would think to go to my "About" page (the equivalent of your "Station" page) to see what the hottest day was. Apparently Stu considered records to be statistics, as he had them as part of LWC's ST1$ statistics tag, and now has them as STrecords$
Well, unfortunately your points aren't exactly on the mark. Of course a record is a statistic - what else could it be? However, it is a kind of statistic that also has a special interest to a visitor who is curious about what the weather is like at your location. An idea of the extremes is a very good way to size up the kind of climate at physical location. So I think argument can be made for having the statistics on weather extremes in both parts of a weather website - but that is of course a bit gabby.
So there are potentially 3 different ways of resolving this:
- One could keep all statistics on the statistics page and provide some sort of 3-way navigation to hope between these 3 different sort of statistics. That's what I initially was planning to do.
- You could implement option #1, but add a link from your location and/or station page so that people who are curious about the extremes at your station could quickly jump to that information from those other pages.
- You could implement the records as part of the station or location page, but then provide links so that people looking for the records could easily jump to these records from the statistics page. That way people who are expecting to find the records on the statistics page nonetheless find it quickly.
Now I'm not sure what I want on my personal page. As far as a conservative and plain-vanilla template for everyone else to use, what does the community suggest?
A curious mind wants to know!
Cheers, Edouard