Introduce the editorial homepage and coherent site-wide layouts

_data/service.yml

@@ -1,4 +1,6 @@
 - organization: Maryland Defense Force
+  image: "/assets/img/mddf-dui.webp"
+  image_alt: "Maryland Defense Force distinctive unit insignia"
   role: Captain
   dates: 2006–Present · Captain since 2013
   current: true
@@ -7,6 +9,8 @@
   detail_page: /service/maryland-defense-force/
 
 - organization: Society of the War of 1812 in Maryland
+  image: "/assets/img/service/organizations/maryland-war-of-1812-seal.jpg"
+  image_alt: "Historic seal of the Maryland Society of the War of 1812"
   id: maryland-war-of-1812
   role: Treasurer · Member, Board of Managers
   dates: 2025–Present
@@ -23,6 +27,13 @@
       since January 2025. I also serve as Treasurer.
 
 - organization: Maryland Society, Sons of the American Revolution
+  image: "/assets/img/service/organizations/sar-logo.jpg"
+  image_alt: "Sons of the American Revolution insignia"
+  image_credit: "SAR insignia: Steeznuts"
+  image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SAR_Logo_color.jpg"
+  image_license: "CC BY-SA 4.0"
+  image_license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"
+  image_changes: "Unmodified"
   id: maryland-sar
   role: Vice President, Charles Carroll of Carrollton Chapter
   dates: 2026–Present
@@ -48,6 +59,8 @@
   url: https://www.augustansociety.org/
 
 - organization: Chapman and Hall / CRC Press
+  image: "/assets/img/service/organizations/crc-press.svg"
+  image_alt: "CRC Press logo"
   id: crc-analytics-or-series
   role: Series Editor, Focus Series in Analytics and Operations Research
   dates: 2020–Present
@@ -66,6 +79,14 @@
   url: https://www.mors.org/publications/mor-journal
 
 - organization: Howard County, Maryland
+  image: "/assets/img/news/thomas-viaduct.webp"
+  image_alt: "Thomas Viaduct in Howard County"
+  image_kind: "photo"
+  image_credit: "Photo: Jim Kuhn"
+  image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Thomas_Viaduct_Inside_Curve_(Relay,_MD).jpg"
+  image_license: "CC BY 2.0"
+  image_license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"
+  image_changes: "Cropped"
   id: howard-county-board-of-appeals
   role: Chair and Member, Board of Appeals · Member, Charter Review Commission
   dates: 2011–2021
@@ -83,6 +104,14 @@
   detail_page: /service/howard-county/
 
 - organization: Columbia Association
+  image: "/assets/img/news/columbia-lakeK.webp"
+  image_alt: "Columbia lakefront at Lake Kittamaqundi"
+  image_kind: "photo"
+  image_credit: "Photo: Scott Saghirian"
+  image_source: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Columbia_Lake_Front.jpg"
+  image_license: "CC BY 2.0"
+  image_license_url: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/"
+  image_changes: "Cropped"
   id: columbia-association-finance
   role: Budget Committee Member and Chair · Financial Advisory Committee Member
   dates: 2004–2010

_data/settings.yml

@@ -70,25 +70,27 @@ sites:
     footer: false
     order: 30
     theme: cmna
-    image: https://jameshoward.us/assets/img/CMNA-cover-300.webp
+    # Image-only crop (38, 512, 1024, 1119) of the 1024px VitalSource cover, vbid 9781351646505.
+    image: /assets/img/projects/cmna-abacus.webp
     image_position: center 30%
     preview_title: CMNA
     preview_subtitle: Numerical analysis, built where you can see it
 
   - id: defenseor
-    title: Modern Defense Operations Research
+    title: Handbook of Military & Defense Operations Research
     kind: Book companion
-    description: The companion site for Modern Defense Operations Research, bringing the book, its authors, and supporting material together.
+    description: The companion site for Handbook of Military & Defense Operations Research, bringing the book, its authors, and supporting material together.
     url: https://defenseor.com/
     target: _blank
     showcase: true
     footer: false
     order: 40
     theme: defenseor
-    image: https://defenseor.com/assets/covers/second-edition.jpg
-    image_position: center 28%
+    # Image-only crop (180, 574, 854, 1028) of the 1024px VitalSource cover, vbid 9781040047033.
+    image: /assets/img/projects/mdor-operations.webp
+    image_position: center top
     preview_title: Defense OR
-    preview_subtitle: Modern Defense Operations Research
+    preview_subtitle: Handbook of Military & Defense Operations Research
 
   - id: dungeon
     title: The Manor of the Dungeon in Kent

about-me.md

@@ -9,6 +9,8 @@ guid: http://localhost/wp-faculty/?page_id=2
 
 
 
+<div class="about-introduction">
+
 :::figure{src="/assets/img/jhoward-greenglow.webp" alt="Me at the 2017 Howard County Library Evening in the Stacks" align="right" width="4" role="portrait"}
 Me at the 2017 Howard County Library Evening in the Stacks
 :::
@@ -33,6 +35,8 @@ assumptions, systems have constraints, and decisions have consequences. Much of
 the job is making those things visible—and explaining them clearly enough that a
 real person can act on them.
 
+</div>
+
 ## Professional Work
 
 James is a data scientist at the [Johns Hopkins Applied Physics
@@ -81,6 +85,8 @@ boards, professional-society work, the Maryland Defense Force, and long-running
 community and university service. These are places where the method is tested in
 the presence of actual rules, budgets, and constraints.
 
+<section class="about-credentials" aria-labelledby="credentials-and-recognition">
+
 ## Credentials and Recognition
 
 ### Education
@@ -97,7 +103,10 @@ the presence of actual rules, budgets, and constraints.
     * College Park Scholars Citation, [International Studies](/assets/docs/JHoward-UMD-CPS.pdf)
 * Post Secondary Educational Options Program, Miami University
 
-:::credential-grid
+<div class="credential-grid">
+
+<section aria-labelledby="professional-titles">
+
 ### Professional Titles
 
 * [European Engineer](/assets/docs/JHoward-EURING.pdf)
@@ -106,19 +115,27 @@ the presence of actual rules, budgets, and constraints.
 * Chartered Mathematician
 * [Chartered IT Professional](/assets/docs/JHoward-FBCS.pdf)
 
+</section>
+
+<section aria-labelledby="certifications">
+
 ### Certifications
 
 * [Project Management Professional](/assets/docs/certifications/JHoward-PMI-PMP.pdf)
 * [PMI Agile Certified Practitioner](/assets/docs/certifications/JHoward-PMI-ACP.pdf)
 * [PMI Professional in Business Analysis](/assets/docs/certifications/JHoward-PMI-PBA.pdf)
 * [Certified Associate in Project Management](/assets/docs/certifications/JHoward-PMI-CAPM.pdf)
 * [Certified Government Financial Manager](/assets/docs/certifications/JHoward-CGFM.pdf)
-:::
+</section>
+
+</div>
 
 ### Professional Recognition
 
 ::professional-recognition
 
+</section>
+
 ## Other Accomplishments
 *   [Correspondence Chess Expert](/2024/01/22/i-earned-iccfs-correspondence-chess-expert-title)
 

consulting.md

@@ -24,6 +24,8 @@ problem can become a data-engineering problem. A software system can become a
 governance problem. A policy question can collapse into an argument about
 assumptions. This is normal.
 
+<section class="consulting-capabilities" aria-labelledby="what-i-can-help-with">
+
 ## What I Can Help With
 
 ### Analysis and Decision Support
@@ -51,6 +53,8 @@ Sometimes the useful answer is not another model. I also review analyses,
 assumptions, methods, code, and technical claims, especially where the result
 will be used to make an operational, policy, or technical decision.
 
+</section>
+
 ## What the Work Looks Like
 
 Most consulting problems start less neatly than the headings above. The data are
@@ -73,6 +77,8 @@ through problems; [Books](/books/) contains the things that got entirely out of
 hand; and [Teaching](/teaching/) shows how I explain the machinery when somebody
 has to learn it.
 
+<section class="consulting-contact" aria-labelledby="work-with-me">
+
 ## Work With Me
 
 Have a problem? Tell me what you are trying to do.
@@ -81,3 +87,5 @@ If I can help, we can talk about what that would look like. If I cannot, I would
 rather tell you that than invent a reason I should.
 
 [Contact me →](/contact-me/)
+
+</section>

games.md

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ date: 2018-02-19T16:33:40-05:00
 author: James Howard
 layout: page
 guid: https://jameshoward.us/?page_id=6181
-image: /assets/images/games-header.webp
+featured_image: /assets/img/news/games-header.webp
 menu-order:     91
 menu-label:     Games
 ---