Yes, this is already the 4th installment of this website. And it's been 23 years since it all started! 😮 Emojis were not a thing already and like them almost any fancy looks had to be hacked together with gifs. Darn, even transparency was a problem and dedicated hacks for certain browsers (well, Internet Explorer mostly) were pretty common.
After all this time I am not even a web-geek! I know .. ehmm, better I can teach myself what I need to know for the problem in front of me in the moment and forget about it asap. So this here is my little experience with it :]
a little timeline
2001-2006• hand crafted HTML frame jungle as a 'DJ friends calendar page' with "blog" notes.2007-2008• Movable Type php blog thing.2008-2023• Wordpress with tailored design (which broke somewhen, ).2024-...• Staticly generated from md-files with Zola.
Why now Zola?
🤷 I don't know. First off, there was no way it would have been anything else than static. I have some experience with Hugo now. It's alright. I kinda hate the documentation. ...
Blog TODO:
- main page with last few articles
- article list with dates on home page and all posts list
- tags
- mobile not properly working well, on mobile! (according was missing)
- bold slab font broken on mobile safari? (not used font variable name thoroughly)
- all links work relatively
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code style
- snippet
- block syntax highlighting
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article layout
- title on top
- background box
- meta on top right
- link to github repo
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title
mdhtml-stylable
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have
page.titlein head-title (not onlyconfig.title) -
cookies
- floater
- recipie page
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Center stuff properly
- article
- nav
- mobile view
- external links with icons
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what to put in the footer
- build with Zola - date ?
- have it upload to FTP via uppy
some resources used
- colors and font picking - realtimecolors.com
- Aligning items in a flex container - developer.mozilla.org and
old site links
Don't know if I really want to publish? Maybe screenshots?