Yesterday I started a brand new repository for this website, remade completely from scratch. Since it was the first day, I didn’t get too much done, but it did get hosted on github pages without an issue. Today, I added a lot more content:

  • The about page and link on homepage
  • Page header
  • Page footer
  • Some consistent fonts
  • Favicon
  • Lots of centering and positioning
  • Colors and CSS styling
  • Page banner
    • Banner image
    • Title and subtitle

However, with the page header, banner and footer, I’m having an issue where I can’t get rid of the small white space around them, which is really annoying. I have a long list of things to add:

  • Archives page
  • Tags, Post categories, [New] post marker
  • Post layout
  • Consistent site layout that can be applied to pages
  • Font sizing
  • Make markdown pages for easier use
  • And more!

Surprisingly, making a website from scratch hasn’t been terribly difficult so far. It just takes time, and you have to add little by little. I had to do some reviewing on HTML and CSS, using my favorite reference W3Schools. I have built a website from scratch with HTML before, but it was in a coding class, and I never published it, so it wasn’t much of a website.

I tried a lot of new things this time, its not that impressive, but most of the things I added today, like links, centering, colors, and buttons. I also did a lot of css styling that I never really did before. I learned a lot today, and I doubt I’ll forget it for a long time.