Hello World
posted 09 Sep 2011
Well, this is my new website. It’s taken just over a month to get everything up and running and I am quite happy with the results. There are a few pages that might need a few tweaks here and there, but I’ve fulfilled my goals of getting the site finished before I start back at University.
Instead of using a big clunky CMS like Drupal or Wordpress I thought I’d try something lighter. Found a lovely databaseless solution called Jekyll. It’s everything I wanted, you make all the files and Jekyll just processes the templates and spits out a static website.
Now, Jekyll is nowhere near perfect, and it was a pain to get a few things, like the gallery to work properly, but I’m much hapier using it than I was with Drupal.
I’ll write another post in a few days about the other tools I used like Sass and might comment on the terribly PHP backend I made for processing the images.
Until then, farewell.