Yay! Two months into blogging and I'm enjoying it. There are still so many things I want to add to this blog - fix, change, add - but I'm proud of putting it out there in this bare-boned state. It it's a big deal for me to share something that isn't in it's final form, so I'm patting myself on the back and enjoying the process.
Here are some highlights from February:
- Wrote five blog posts - Self explanatory! I'm stoked I shared my thoughts with the world.
- Fixed some broken links on my "blog" page - The "older posts" and "newer posts" links weren't working, and just populating all the blog posts with no pagination, so I re-wrote the code and they work now! -Added generated OpenGraph images - I had a couple people share my writing (thank you!) but noticed when they posted a link on social media, they showed up like this:
And now they look like this:
This was a fun project that really made me fall in love with 11ty, the static site generator I use to build this site. Essentially, I set up a template in 11ty that creates dynamic images automatically for each webpage. I utilize the 11ty screenshot service to take a screenshot and use that image. Thanks to Patrick Lee for sharing his method, which GREATLY informed how I implemented this.
What's Next?
- Checking and improving accessibility based on WCAG guidelines.
- Displaying post 'tags' is broken... need to fix.
- Adding a 'website' page to better track these updates and celebrate how much I've learned!
- Adding links on posts and adding a repository of links to my favorite websites.