Some Design Tweaks
I've made some small tweaks to the blog to kick off the new year. For starters, I made the layout slightly narrower because the original theme took up a ton of horizontal space. I don't do any full-bleed layout elements because of the two-column layout, so this will help keep things nice a neat.
The biggest change is how I'm laying out posts on the main index. Instead of just titles, I'm now showing small excerpts. Jinja templating allows me to pull the text to a certain point and then add the "Read more" link when needed. I also did a little bit of preliminary work for posts that I want to throw in that don't necessarily fit the "traditional" blog post format with a title.
Sidebar: it is wild to me that a blog post has a "traditional" format now.
Lastly, in an attempt to have a more semantic layout, I've added a proper footer element into the article element for the post data. I've included a permalink, a server-rendered word count, and then the category as a link. This will let me remove a little bit of Javascript from the post templates I was using to calculate the word count.
We'll see if these changes stick.
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