Any posts that are relevant to how this site is or was put together, or news, updates, or changes to it. General notes on web development will likely also show up here.
January 24, 2012
This site is being revived, or at least updated again. I’m going to be using Jekyll to manage the site. Jekyll is a static webpage generator that is ‘blog-aware’, meaning it has some features for automatically keeping track of posts and how they relate to each other. While it...June 12, 2012
Part 1: Using Jekyll and Liquid As I’ve mentioned before, when redoing the site I wanted to use a system simple enough that I could understand it and modify it if necessary to do exactly what I need. I chose Jekyll. At a future time I might go with something that gives some more standard f...November 14, 2022
Part 2: Textpattern and Setting up the Site Well, I did say there’d be a next time… and here it is just a decade later. In the intervening time a fair amount of what I went over in Part 1 has been rendered obsolete. On the other hand, what I had so long ago intended for this post to b...January 9, 2023
Part 3: Updated design and Photo Gallery Part of the impetus for finally completing the previous post on how the site was built was that I recently made a number of changes to modernize the site. While the design remains mostly unchanged, it was at long last necessary to make a few improvements. ...