# september 2020: bye php, hello bottle

october 1, 2020
#bottle #css #git #html #regex #regularexpressions #website

## wednesday, september 2

- Study examples of my favorite blogs, popular blogs, and just any blogs I can find from modern gaming, retro gaming, tech, cooking, beauty, and any genre
- Determine essential features for my blog
- Plan design of blog

## friday, september 18

- decided to switch from PHP to Bottle
- Hello World in Bottle
- created templates for main pages
- Used Bottle to fill values in a template using variables
- Used Bottle to avoid repeating HTML code in navigation pane, header, and footer

## friday, september 25

- Diary snippets are formatted from data taken from their articles. The article preview is cut to the character limit.

## saturday, september 26

- Updated the blessfrey.me script to serve static content like CSS stylesheets + images. Now the pages are actually styled.

## wednesday, september 30

- fix bugs for blessfrey.me's static pages - no footer in the middle of the body, no unclosed <ul> tags from diary entry snippets breaking the CSS.
- w3's Nu Html Checker (lol @ the nu name) is really handy for automatically checking whether all my HTML tags are closed and CSS is valid, especially the parts generated through Bottle + SimpleTemplate.