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user-inactivated  ·  4112 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Writer needs advice

Oh, that thing? It's grown, slowly. It uses jekyll on the back-end, which is an interesting/masochistic way to make a website. The main process was: put something on the internet, add content, work out what sucks about the layout, fix that, repeat. There's a lot to be said for shipping early, then refining the product. I think I've been doing that process for six to eight months? It's been on-and-off, whenever I feel the need to move something around or push something out of the way.

(There is actually a slight redesign in the works that I need to get around to final testing + uploading at some point).

The layout itself is based on my looking at websites, going "that looks pretty/striking/better than my website", bookmarking it, and then going back later and working out what makes it tick before replicating it on mine.