The Quiet Desk
habitant5830.github.io
A personal corner to dump my thoughts and opinions on tech, privacy, Linux, and whatever else I’m into.

I am learning website development on my own by developing a website using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Currently there is no JavaScript used, as I am still developing and learning new things related to HTML and CSS. I am just at the beginning stage.

Actually, this is very interesting, as I am not learning a pre-designed textbook or YouTube videos. I am actively building a website and learning from it.

I already used HTML templates and Hugo and Zola, like static website generators. So writing code was never harder, but implementing features or arranging screen space is a big pain.

I know the site looks a lot uglier, but before it was more ugly and misaligned than this. At least I managed to make it like this.

Note:

The posts and contents on this website are converted from my Hugo site, which used Markdown format. The site link is provided at the footer, and the code is also on GitHub. The images are from Unsplash and Pixel sources.

    • tumbling4986@lemmy.caOP
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      3 days ago

      I use ghostwriter to write blogs in markdown. Then with the help of a converter i convert it into html format and modify it from there.

      Why not directly write in HTML?

      Because for me writing blogs in direct html feels so hard for several reasons,

      • Adding tags every-time affects my writing flow.
      • Markdown is so simple compared to HTML and ghostwriter shows a direct live preview on the side.
      • Markdown to HTML converters work so well by converting the markdown symbols into proper HTML tag.

      But why I may switch?

      I would consider to switch to directly writing blogs in HTML when i have enough knowledge about web development. The reasons are,

      • It is harder to correct or tweak lines of converted HTML, when compared to directly written HTML.
      • Converters are not perfect either, they make mistakes when identifying equivalent tags. Then later it will become a headache to review again and again.
      • Later we have to implement CSS and class by reading each line of converted HTML, which actually doubles the effort.
      • If I learned HTML, CSS and JavaScript well, and get comfort with it, then there is no need to write in Markdown format, use Hugo/Zola, find a good pre-built theme and keep it from breaking, etc. HTML, CSS, JavaScript manages itself everything.
      • Managing our own website and writing blogs in it is actually very interesting and exciting than writing blogs in someones else’s template/theme. (No matter we get viewers or not).

      I recommend directly writing on HTML rather than Markdown to reduce the effort needed.

      Thank you for the resources. It looks very helpful.