Archive for posts dated 'May 2016'
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May 2016
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Website Relaunch
Wow, I finally pressed the button and my rebuilt website has been launched. I have to admit, I was quite nervous about making the actual switch from WordPress to a static HTML site. I kept thinking "What have I missed?", but throw caution to the wind, it's my own website - if anything breaks, I'll just fix it. It feels like I've wanted to move away from having a dynamically-generated website for the longest time.…
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Open Graph: Facebook and Twitter Cards metadata
One of the motivators for going "back to basics" on my blog was to focus on the markup semantics and laying a solid foundation. Given one of the main powers of the Open Web is the ability to link and share content, I wanted to get my metadata in a workable state. I've known about Open Graph for a few years, professionally I make sure that my client's websites leverage it - but the funny…
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Succumbed to the CSS dark side
Well, it didn't take me long to succumb to the power of the CSS dark side! ;-) I had a few people comment about my website being "broken" - and my semi-auto reply of "going back to basics" - but this hasn't bothered me much, it's quite interesting to start a discussion around the idea. However, I do admit that there are enhancements to be had with applying basic stylings. So I've started a minimal…
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Apologies for RSS mistake
For readers of my blog via the RSS feed, I have to apologise to you. When I relaunched my blog at the start of May, I was using Wyam's built-in RSS module - which initially appeared to work well. But I noticed an issue with my configuration after I'd corrected a typo on a recent post. It turns out the <guid> value for each post had been created as a unique identifier based off a…
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