Dear Chxshire22,
How do you run your blog? What I mean is the background side of things. Do you manually copy and paste the code every time you make a new page or do you have something that does that for you?
Thanks a bunch >.<,
~ Duke
HEY Duke!!!
yeahh... you guessed right - i do copy and paste stuff around XD. initially i did this site in nextjs but i wanted to keep things simple and found that making and reusing templates helps a LOT!
i did consider scripting something to make it easier - something that i can run in the command line to make a new directory, .html file, update the blogroll, rss, and homepage's latest post. (╭ರ_•́)
don't think that'll be too hard, maybe take me a day, maybe in bash or c, or... node? idk hahaha.
but so far the templates help me make posts really quickly, css classes etc. also! if you look at my website files, you'll see it's very messy with some inline styles too but it's because i try not to put css rules that will only apply to one element in the style sheet as i find that it clogs up the style sheet.
so right now the copy-paste stuff works fine, if i do want to use a cms i would probably use one of the two:
payload cms (nextjs)
contentful cms (really good tbh)
i kinda lean towards using contentful, it has a decent free tier, and i don't have to host it on a server!
the biggest upside to copying and pasting without using a cms is that the hot module reloading keeps updating the actual "preview" of the site. also having the freedom to be as ridiculous as i want with custom html
if i use a cms i still have to set up the preview page by myself which is from experience, a hassle, and also the preview webpage won't likely update as fast? idk just what i feel.
beep boop beep boop!!!
chxshire22