Project(s): Revamping my personal blog into a more writerly website
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I'd like to reorganize my full-site blog into a website focused on my writing and literary translations, with the blog taking up just one part of the new website. The plan is to modify the theme I'm currently using to be more website-like and recategorize the posts I currently have. It's best done before the blog gets much bigger, so I jumped on this event as an opportunity to get started.
I also want to sort out the roles of my two domain names: I have a domain https://ljwrit.es that currently directs to the About page of the blog, but I plan to make it the main URL while redirecting ljwrites.blog to the blog section of the website. Any requests to the .blog domain will be transferred to the same post on the .es domain for a smooth transition. Yeah I bought two URLs for the same site, I just couldn't resist either of them! >_<
Stretch goal: Consider moving on from Github Pages to a different offering like Netflify, or maybe the VPS I run for my fedi instance. The files are static and can live wherever I can point a URL to, so I have a lot of leeway.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? It was all I knew when I first got online in 1998! I used to have hand-coded fan shrines for Final Fantasy VIII and Disney's Brother Bear (ETA: oh, and a personal website and ttrpg blog, also both defunct). Then things started closing down into social media silos late aughts-ish, and the mass content purges started happening. With all that happening, it's a real pleasure to see the small and indie web flourishing the past few years. I firmly believe everyone who creates stuff to share with others should have their own online space independent of corporate social media, and I love the creativity and freedom of personal websites!
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Project(s): Revamping my personal blog into a more writerly website
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I'd like to reorganize my full-site blog into a website focused on my writing and literary translations, with the blog taking up just one part of the new website. The plan is to modify the theme I'm currently using to be more website-like and recategorize the posts I currently have. It's best done before the blog gets much bigger, so I jumped on this event as an opportunity to get started.
I also want to sort out the roles of my two domain names: I have a domain https://ljwrit.es that currently directs to the About page of the blog, but I plan to make it the main URL while redirecting ljwrites.blog to the blog section of the website. Any requests to the .blog domain will be transferred to the same post on the .es domain for a smooth transition. Yeah I bought two URLs for the same site, I just couldn't resist either of them! >_<
Stretch goal: Consider moving on from Github Pages to a different offering like Netflify, or maybe the VPS I run for my fedi instance. The files are static and can live wherever I can point a URL to, so I have a lot of leeway.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? It was all I knew when I first got online in 1998! I used to have hand-coded fan shrines for Final Fantasy VIII and Disney's Brother Bear (ETA: oh, and a personal website and ttrpg blog, also both defunct). Then things started closing down into social media silos late aughts-ish, and the mass content purges started happening. With all that happening, it's a real pleasure to see the small and indie web flourishing the past few years. I firmly believe everyone who creates stuff to share with others should have their own online space independent of corporate social media, and I love the creativity and freedom of personal websites!