september 2020: bye php, hello bottle

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.