Progress on the website work

Some real progress on the website has been made. It's possible the website may be out in a super duper rudimentary form by this weekend, but even if it does not, there's all the background available for me to start whenever I feel like. This is the first phase of the website, mind, and I'll be working on-and-off for the next 3-6 months to bring it to a state I am comfortable with, and then...To infinity AND BEYOND!

The first big achievement is that I've finally found an amazing template that matches perfectly with my vision of what the site should be. And it also happens to look a lot like what other people whose sites I aspire to emulate from look like. The old template I had been working under the assumption of finalizing was quite boring and drab, truth be told, which is not a complaint I usually have. But for this I need all the oomph I can get, and the new template gets me there. Super excited about it.

I went around and modified the template IN PLACE by using console to see how my content would look like in there, and it looked great? Nothing disappointing or mind-breaking really, just what it meant to be. I was able to change the template by modifying the templated designs too so I can get rid of the design elements I don't feel comfortable with. Didn't realize that class names were used to control the elements until a few years ago, so that lesson has been valuable. I even put my dummy content, sections, and photos in there and took a screenshot to get a dummy and it looks amazing!

There's also a good sense of the other special technical features (that don't involve writing or planning) that I want in later versions, so that means 1) I'm not needlessly investing in those abilities right now, and 2) there's a general vision of what I want the site to eventually look and feel like, so the vision of my dreams is nearing realization!

Also wrote / planned out the last remaining pieces of writing. For this phase, no more planning work remains, I just need to actually properly write, but even if they're not done, I'm ready to just replace the crap website that exists there right now with the one I want. This is a big progress.

Oh and finally, the one I'm the most personally proud about. I got about six of my old photos, turned them into b&w and edited the crap out of them to look semi-decent, so there's 'personal photos' to go for the website. This should be good! It looks quite decent!