An actual blog plugin
2021-12-14 23:57 CET
In the past couple weeks, the design of the website more or less settled, and I must admit I am quite pleased with it. In my opinion it looks modern, tight and still playful. And I have had a lot of fun so far in making it, even though took a lot of going back and forth (as mentioned in my previous post).
Especially the background parallax, which was ironically where the idea to create this website started. I wanted to have a page to share my socials on, and I couldn't come up with a design. One of my friends jokingly said, that I should implement a background parallax. While he probably meant vertical site, scrolling on the users interaction (like Apple's website for example), this more.. game-style side scroller popped into my head. So I started coding, and after a long hiatus with web-technology, I must admit it caused some hair-pulling (think more of.. Grumbly dragons, Coffee, Google and StackOverflow). But, slowly the result formed to what it is now. Still nowhere near perfect, but more than "Good enough" for my personal project.
From there I started building the website on top and more and more ideas rolled in. For example, I am working mainly on the Gallery plugin, which is taking quite some time, with the dynamical system I am trying to push out (that topic deserves it’s own blog-post though). For that reason, I thought It would be a good idea to start and finish a more manageable task: The blog plugin!
It's is admittedly still quite simple, but the item(s) you're reading now, are no longer static articles. Instead the webpage is defined quite simply as "{PLUGIN:BLOG}" which loads in the plugin automatically. From there on, I can simply throw new items into the database, and give them a release date, so they will automatically spawn on the right moment too.
Why you ask? I might have a little thing for Christmas planned, and I thought this was THE opportunity to test it out. Curious? Check back on December 24th (12:00 CET), it should release automatically then.