Frankenstein Website

Finally managed to launch the site, even if in an extremely barebones fashion. I’ve yet to understand how Jekyll even works, but I’m hopeful. Albeit quite a bit disappointed that I had to scramble information from around the web itself, as the official documentation wasn’t enough for me. I thought I had slightly more brain power, turns out I’m even stupider than expected.

Somehow I can’t get themes to work at all, I kind of thought it would be a simple replacement job, but even after running amok with a text editor, I can’t even view my site on the local machine. I think I’m going to end up cross referencing other themes, and somehow get mine up to the standards I wish for it to have. Not sure how long this will take, but you can expect smaller changes then and now.

One thing to note: Neocities has a tutorial page where they mention and link to Jekyll, which I thought could be easily used in a simple drag and drop fashion. Well, I couldn’t upload the provided files for a custom theme, as certain file types are blocked for non supporters.

I thought, well what the heck, pricing wise it’s not the best deal out there, but I don’t mind supporting the site (considering there’s no intrusive ads and whatnot) so I went ahead and became a supporter. I promptly went to upload my files afterwards, and two of them got still blocked. Not exactly sure why, but a bit later I also found out that you simply can’t just use Jekyll as is, you need to convert your markdown files to html with it. And guess what? That also removes the blocked file types, as you don’t need them for the live site…

I feel very dumb.