Hello Portland
Posted 01 Oct 2024 - by 
pet
Hi! I am enjoying making a website and getting real silly w it :3
How this site is made
This site is built on jekyll, a static site generator (TODO:include link) that we use to create turn markdown files (The same way you can format text in discord or a email :3 ) into blog posts, and automatically link the latest ones on the sidebar and elsewhere. For hosting, we use neocities because its free, but another very good option with integration with jekyll is github, where you can also host (I’m hoping to put together a guide soon)
For this website, I created a project that includes everything you need to make a website including the scripts needed to make both blog posts and show posts (That include links to other bands!! wow! cross promotion! This project in particular is designed with accessibility in mind, with the intention that anyone can pick up the code, scrape together an “about” page by comparing with examples and some ctrl+f (here is an extremely helpful resouse for jekyll that help me learn in about an afternoon how to put this trash together, i would recommend playing around with a few toys like html basics and markdown. ghostwriter is an open source markdown editor. I would recommend leaning into open-source! This website is open-source! It’s good for everyone and means you know the people making the thing are only in it to have a thing that works well. That’s pretty neat :)
I am a huge hypocrite and use Sublime Text 3 (No link, not open source.) for editing things that arent Markdown, like html, css and even the bash scripts I put together for this (Though i guess ill have to learn a little bit of python to make them more universal? Maybe Go? Is that what Ruby is written in? I dont know but ill look into jekyll a little more in the future and change this page at some point)