Notes on creating this site

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I’m creating this site using a theme that I am customising in small ways as I go. While I’m building I’m just using GitHub Pages as a server for the site. This makes it easy to test and means I’m keeping a backup of my site (with a reasonable version history as well, which could turn out to be useful if I break something later).

I’m changing all sorts of little things with a few issues every now and then:

  • Added the short About intro to the Home page.
  • Changed the link colour to orange (from green for post titles and blue for all other links).
  • Worked out a way to create blog images of the correct size (1280 x 720) in a relatively easy way, using Canva (which I hate in many ways, but can use for free).
  • The search looks cool, but it’s not doing anything… at all, so I don’t know if I’ll work out how to fix that…
  • Gradually adding posts, collections and notes to overwrite the example site with my own stuff.

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Eleanor Sandry

Recovering academic now running free online.

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