#+title: Handwritten Website
#+date: 2025-06-20
I'm looking forward to writing about other things on this website already, but I'd like to add one brief note on how I will be approaching updating this site for the foreseeable future.
On Monday, the website looked like this:
#+BEGIN_EXPORT html
<figure>
<img src="
https://i.imgur.com/Llwm2Fr.png" alt="A screenshot of this website's first design">
<figcaption>nyoki website on Monday</figcaption>
</figure>
#+END_EXPORT
The big advantage with the approach shown above was that I could use one Emacs org mode file, but as I write more posts, none would have its own URL and it was cumbersome to link specific posts.
I've been thinking about how best to incorporate my newfound Emacs interest into this site, and I've concluded that I can keep writing rough drafts of these posts in org mode and simply dropping them within an HTML template. Like manual static site generation, and essentially what SSGs do with layout templates.
** Redesign
This evening I was playing around on tilde.team and I really liked the design of the botany game, so I changed the design of this website to look similar. I wrote the HTML and CSS by hand and I'll stick to this process until I'm writing more frequently or until I have enough data to warrant a static site generator. But it's a bit of a waste of time to "future-proof" this when I'm using it more as a sandbox for design and ideas. I'd like to have fun with this.
Bradley Taunt wrote a one-file static site generator called [[
https://wruby.btxx.org][wruby]] and I'm thinking of writing one too. But that's getting ahead. And you know, it's actually really fun to write HTML and CSS by hand at this scale. The problem is that there is more opportunity for error, so I'll look towards addressing that soon.™
If you do catch inconsistencies or errors, please let me know!
