I write about my process and progress with the development of this site. As well as, eventually, other projects I dabble in.
When I was beginning to learn Pelican, it benefited me intensely to copy down all the setting options in one file. This way I could see what I could do. Feel free to copy this and use it yourself as you begin to play with Pelican
I have put a lot of effort into making this website over the last two weeks. I spent most of my time working on it because I'm a little depressed and trying to avoid the real problem.
Here's some interesting tidbits about it.
I don't really know what to call this. But for the background images, I load the smallest size that fits close enough to the height of the page. Hoping to save bandwidth for mobile users.
I cared a lot about mobile bandwidth usage. One of the things I focused on was condensing my css as much as possible.
Another little project that took me a while to figure out was getting a SoundCloud widget on the page without loading right away. This is tricker than I hoped and I wish there was a way I could do this without Javascript. I am sure there is a way, but I have not found it yet. The secret may lie it a:target selector, but we'll see.
This is a small silly one, however when I first tried to use Markdown tables, they did not render in pelican.
This page is dedicated to me testing out all the features of this website. I despised html and css for a long time. So this is …
