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<h1>september 2020: bye php, hello bottle</h1>
october 1, 2020<br>
#bottle #css #git #html #regex #regularexpressions #website<br>
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<h2>wednesday, september 2 </h2>
<ul>
<li>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 </li>
<li>Determine essential features for my blog </li>
<li>Plan design of blog </li>
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<h2>friday, september 18 </h2>
<ul>
<li>decided to switch from PHP to Bottle </li>
<li>Hello World in Bottle </li>
<li>created templates for main pages </li>
<li>Used Bottle to fill values in a template using variables </li>
<li>Used Bottle to avoid repeating HTML code in navigation pane, header, and footer </li>
</ul>
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<h2>friday, september 25</h2>
<ul>
<li>Diary snippets are formatted from data taken from their articles. The article preview is cut to the character limit.</li>
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<h2>saturday, september 26</h2>
<ul>
<li>Updated the blessfrey.me script to serve static content like CSS stylesheets + images. Now the pages are actually styled.</li>
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<h2>wednesday, september 30</h2>
<ul>
<li>fix bugs for blessfrey.me's static pages - no footer in the middle of the body, no unclosed &lt;ul&gt; tags from diary entry snippets breaking the CSS.</li>
<li><a href="https://validator.w3.org/nu/">w3's Nu Html Checker</a> (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. </li>
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