Blogging with Publii!

Join me as I learn my way around Publii, an opensource CMS (Content Management System) designed for generating static websites.

aaronwatts@dev

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I've found something in Publii to nag about, although it's not really the fault of Publii per se. It's more to do with loose specs and lack of standardisation elsewhere, and the issues this can then cause.

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ARIA compliant breadcrumbs

I've been looking at improving accessibility across my main website. One of my main goals when building it originally was to keep it as simple as possible, which is now paying off as I begin to make changes. Despite keeping it simple, I did still want the site to have at least some character, to have a little bit of me in it. So I went with the not so unique approach of styling parts of the site to look like terminal output, such as my main site navigation. I used a breadcrumb navigation and styled it to look like a directory path in a terminal prompt.

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I got the Raspberry Pi 500+

I've been looking for an excuse to move my main pi 5 over to the TV with the new version of Plasma Bigscreen running on it, and hopefully Steam too. So now my main workhorse is the pi 500+.

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Changes to AaronWattsDev

I've been doing work on my website to make it more accessible. This has sent me down a few branching rabbit holes. Hopefully making a note of what I've done and what I plan to do will help me keep track of everything I'm hoping to implement..

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