Classy and easy on the eyes.
This is the theme of my website, earlps.net. It follows the blog redesign checklist
- The front page features articles, media and projects unlike the previous theme which only listed the latest posts. It was too simple for my use case.
- Visitors may notice the 'shorts' page. These are low quality, short posts which I use as an alternative to social media. It scratches a particular itch I have -- shitposting. I learned on my Previous experience that I like the experience this gives me. It keeps the blog more active and I have a place to dump thoughts so I can go back to them.
- Posts are more digestible with the laid-back spacing of elements.
The design of this blog came from multiple websites I've visited in the past.
- The supabase website
- The right sidebar on an article shows a summary, like a table of contents, of the article.
- Gwern's website
- I like the idea of laying out categories in the homepage. It encourages the reader to look around.
- Lean Rada's personal website
- I like the fun feel and clean look of the website.
- Client-side deprioritization of posts that have already been read by the user
- last site update time on footer
- page stats?
- Theme size/lines of code
- Loading animations / page transitions / (trivia loading screen, pokemon transitions)
- Default thumbnail if not found
- Popups like wikipedia (using iframe)
- Static site trello board?
- Search -- done