Please give me suggestions...

2022-10-10

This might actually be my last blog post.. sort of. Now that I have your valuable attention, please read the rest of the blog post!

So, a few days ago I started working on a website redesign. However I quickly realized that it was more work than it was worth. So instead, I decided that it would be easier to straight up start from scratch. No, not completely from scratch, that would be ridiculously time consuming.

However I decided that it would be easier to create the HTML manually, from scratch and then copy over the text (such as blog posts) from the older page.

Anyways, let's get to the point of this blog post which is, I need suggestions regarding the redesign. Anything. What should I implement, what kind of design should I go for? This time, I am able to use PHP for the header, which I will likely end up doing however as always, speedie.site will stay as an anti-JavaScript website and as such, I am not going to add a single line of it even if it makes my website look nicer.

Here are some ideas I've got myself:

• About me page

About me page, which will contain information about me, and the software I use.

• Separate 'Projects' category (for example, https://speedie.site/projects/speedwm)

Right now, project pages are all over the place and difficult to find. Therefore I think it would be much easier to have a projects category.

• Separate 'Blog' category (for example, https://speedie.site/blog/post01.html)

There are now many blog posts, and the one you're reading only makes the problem worse. Because of this, I need a way to make them easier to sort and keep track of.

• Header and Footer done using PHP

In my opinion, this is the most important part. Otherwise, If I want to change one thing in the header, I have to manually edit every single HTML file in the website. Doing so can take a very very long time.

• Atom feed

I might start offering Atom feeds alongside RSS feeds if the benefit makes it worth it.

• Separate feeds for Projects, Wii and philosophy/politics/opinions on the state of the world/technology

This blog currently has way too many blog posts that don't really matter a few months after the event. Removing all the 'rchat ' posts from the main blog and uploading them to a separate 'Projects' feed is going to make it much cleaner and easier for the user.

As for web design, I don't really know what I want to do yet. Will likely go for a minimal design though, as minimalism tends to hide the flaws of not using JavaScript fairly well!

If you want to give me suggestions, you can join my IRC channel (Libera.chat network, #ff or #ststid'kwtn), or you can >send me an email. That's it for this blog post, your suggestions are appreciated, thank you for reading and have a good day people!