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diff --git a/build/personal-website-opinions/index.html b/build/personal-website-opinions/index.html index 7ce9782..4eeb401 100644 --- a/build/personal-website-opinions/index.html +++ b/build/personal-website-opinions/index.html @@ -1,31 +1,43 @@ <!doctype html> -<html lang="en" id="top"> +<html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"> <link rel="icon" href="data:,"> <title>My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design</title> - <link href="https://bt.ht/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> - <style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{overflow:auto;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}</style> + <link href="/atom.xml" type="application/atom+xml" rel="alternate" title="Atom feed for blog posts" /> + <link href="/rss.xml" type="application/rss+xml" rel="alternate" title="RSS feed for blog posts" /> +<style>*{box-sizing:border-box;}body{font-family:sans-serif;line-height:1.33;margin:0 auto;max-width:650px;padding:1rem;}img{max-width:100%;}pre{border:1px solid;overflow:auto;padding:5px;}table{text-align:left;width:100%;}.footnotes{font-size:90%;}</style> </head> <nav> - <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> + <a href="#menu">Menu ↓</a> </nav> <main> -<h1>My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design</h1> +<h1 id="my-changing-opinion-on-personal-website-design">My Changing Opinion on Personal Website Design</h1> + <p>2021-05-19</p> -<p>Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned <em>again</em>! Although I am still using good ol' Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source custom typefaces.</p> -<p><strong>Gasp!</strong> "How <em>could</em> you?!" I hear you ask. Let me explain.</p> -<h2>Personal sites should feel personal</h2> -<p>I can see how this change might seem hypocritical (it took some convincing myself) but I decided to follow in to footsteps of Kev Quirk and <a href="https://kevq.uk/adding-some-whimsy-character/">added a little whimsy and character</a> to my website. After all, personal websites should <em>feel personal</em>. My obsession with barebones HTML & CSS serves its purpose on other public projects, but seems limiting for my own little space on the interwebs.</p> -<h2>Banned from my own club</h2> -<p>I had originally converted this blog's design to use <em>zero</em> CSS and instead rely solely on default browser styling. The main reasoning for doing so, was to have the ability to include my own personal website in the <a href="https://xhtml.club">XHTML Club</a> project. (I never said it was a <em>good</em> reason)</p> -<p>After giving it some thought, I've decided that this limitation seemed too extreme even for me.</p> -<h2>Moving forward</h2> -<p>I know I always say "With this new design, I can finally focus on just writing content!" - but this is a lie. I'll probably be fiddling with my personal website until the day I die. The good news is that I <em>do</em> have a few tutorial blog posts lined up to publish soon - so be on the lookout for those!</p> -<p>Thanks for reading through my pointless ramblings about personal websites. It's good to just vent about these things sometimes...</p> + +<p>Hey would you look at that - my personal blog has been redesigned <em>again</em>! Although I am still using good ol’ Jekyll for the backend, I have now added a more fleshed-out CSS design which also includes a set of open source custom typefaces.</p> + +<p><strong>Gasp!</strong> “How <em>could</em> you?!” I hear you ask. Let me explain.</p> + +<h2 id="personal-sites-should-feel-personal">Personal sites should feel personal</h2> + +<p>I can see how this change might seem hypocritical (it took some convincing myself) but I decided to follow in to footsteps of Kev Quirk and <a href="https://kevq.uk/adding-some-whimsy-character/">added a little whimsy and character</a> to my website. After all, personal websites should <em>feel personal</em>. My obsession with barebones HTML & CSS serves its purpose on other public projects, but seems limiting for my own little space on the interwebs.</p> + +<h2 id="banned-from-my-own-club">Banned from my own club</h2> + +<p>I had originally converted this blog’s design to use <em>zero</em> CSS and instead rely solely on default browser styling. The main reasoning for doing so, was to have the ability to include my own personal website in the <a href="https://xhtml.club">XHTML Club</a> project. (I never said it was a <em>good</em> reason)</p> + +<p>After giving it some thought, I’ve decided that this limitation seemed too extreme even for me.</p> + +<h2 id="moving-forward">Moving forward</h2> + +<p>I know I always say “With this new design, I can finally focus on just writing content!” - but this is a lie. I’ll probably be fiddling with my personal website until the day I die. The good news is that I <em>do</em> have a few tutorial blog posts lined up to publish soon - so be on the lookout for those!</p> + +<p>Thanks for reading through my pointless ramblings about personal websites. It’s good to just vent about these things sometimes…</p> <footer role="contentinfo"> <h2>Menu Navigation</h2> <ul id="menu"> |