Getting Started
tags: postYippeee I’ve built a website 🥳
This is just a blog for my personal writings, and also playing around with building a non-macro social media website. When I last tried this out was 5 years ago with Jekyll & Github pages, where you didn’t have to compile anything yourself. This time round, I’ve used Hugo & Neocities and its been a fair bit easier once I got over my fear of opening the terminal.
This Tutorial by Haddock:
was essential for getting me through the process and I can’t recommend it enough.
The theme I chose is Neopost, a neocities aesthetic inspired theme that I thought worked well as the bones of what I wanted this site to look like. The “look” was me trying to evoke cute & cheap 2000s japanese/chinese notebooks I used have as a kid, which where often printed with soft green lines & grids, with claims that it was “easier on the eyes”. The font is Fredoka, one of my favourite fonts that I use all the time for subtitling. Fredoka is a variable font by Milena Brandão that is an OFL alternative to Zadoka by Fontworks (which got fundamentally fucked recently by being purchased by Monotype).
Not sure if I would recommend neopost to others, it does what it says on the tin, but the documentation is a bit lacking. Still really cool it’s multilingual.
Todo list:
Make a back button underneath individual blog posts- Figure out a RSS feed