I was planning on finishing part two of my post on “magic” last week, but then I had an idea for a very simple game I could program that would help get my point across much better.
The game is simple enough that I think I can just use HTML forms to make it–no JavaScript required–so it will be a good opportunity to practice with kelp, too. Most likely, I’ll have another devlog this week about why I’ve chosen to use kelp to redesign my website. I hope you’re looking forward to it!
“Pilcrow” was the default WordPress theme waaaay back in 2011 when I started this blog, and it shows. The “featured images” I set on each entry so that they cross-post to Instagram properly are distracting, the layout is cluttered, the URLs poorly organized, and the styling is so badly designed it may as well be broken. So what’s a poor web programmer to do?
Why, put off fixing it indefinitely rebuild everything from scratch, of course!
I’ve been wanting to beef up my frontend skills for a while now (especially the fundamentals, HTML and CSS), and since I’ve finally realized that I can keep a devlog of my progress to avoid falling behind on my blog (duh), I have no more excuses to put it off!
I’ve decided to use the Kelp framework for the UI, for many reasons. I’ll go a bit more in-depth on what Kelp is, how it works, and why I like it in a future post, but I’ll say that one reason I chose it is because it has an HTML- and CSS-first design, which as I mentioned are skills I’d like to focus on.
(Another reason is that it’s being developed by one of my favorite bloggers, Chris Ferdinandi–I’ve mentioned him before!)
So far all I’ve built is a flirtier version of “Hello, World!“, but expect more updates soon!
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