Blogging with Publii!

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

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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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Still Restructuring

The accessibility website restructure has turned out to be a longer job than I had anticipated. Although it's given me a chance to practise my Vim controls - Vim has taken a lot of the work out of it, I'm glad I decided to switch to it again and learn it proper this time.

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Semantic Restructuring

A while ago, a friend introduced me to Simple CSS, a CSS file (not framework), that focused on the use of semantic markup in styling a web page. After "pressure and feedback from the community", the creator added classes to Simple CSS, two of them.

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Out Of The Box

After first build and deployment, with the default settings, you get a pretty rich static blog website out of the box. With sensible html structure that is not swamped by nested divs upon divs (already a winner here as far as I'm concerned!), a sensible folder structure, and all the necessities that a static site might require.

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