I launched my Neocities site in January, and updated it some in February! Don't think I had mentioned it here yet, so here it is: https://altheavalara.neocities.org
I'm using Jekyll as my static site page manager. Jekyll allows you to break the repetitive pieces of your website out into "includes" files, so you don't have to write the same code over and over in places. Example: my flyover menus are an "includes" - as they are quite lengthy, it'd be a pain to put that on EVERY page manually, and that'd be prone to errors!
Another nice thing about Jekyll is that it accepts markup languages besides HTML. I'm still using HTML for most of my stuff, but the menus are in YAML (Yet Another Markup Language).
When I launched my site, I intended to make a post here in smallweb with a tutorial on how to do so, but had some issues with formatting it so the code would appear properly here. So the tutorial is hosted on my site: https://altheavalara.neocities.org/jekyll_tutorial
I hope that helps others building static sites or blogs!
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Date: 2025-03-01 01:56 pm (UTC)I'm using Jekyll as my static site page manager. Jekyll allows you to break the repetitive pieces of your website out into "includes" files, so you don't have to write the same code over and over in places. Example: my flyover menus are an "includes" - as they are quite lengthy, it'd be a pain to put that on EVERY page manually, and that'd be prone to errors!
Another nice thing about Jekyll is that it accepts markup languages besides HTML. I'm still using HTML for most of my stuff, but the menus are in YAML (Yet Another Markup Language).
When I launched my site, I intended to make a post here in
I hope that helps others building static sites or blogs!