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Jekyll Tag Cloud
Building from Thursday’s post, an alternative method for displaying tags by count had occurred to me: the classic “tag cloud”. Displaying tags in a list (or, ideally, within a bunch or a circle) with the font size of the tag representing visually the relative importance of a tag to the blog compared to other tags. It accomplishes the same goal as a simple ordered-by-post-count list (showing what you care about), but it’s visual and interesting.
Read moreTags Organized by Count (Size)
Jekyll is blog-aware and it runs on Liquid (plus Markdown, HTML, CSS, etc.). Liquid is a templating language, not a fully-fledged programming language. Jekyll+Liquid can make a great website/blog, but sometimes things to a little haywire.
Read moreDesigning with Liquid
I’ve taken a shot at coding for Jekyll a couple of times in the past, but never have I done it so completely as I have now to almost avoid hardcoding anything except on layouts and includes.
Read moreFlexing Colors
Getting things to do exactly what I wanted them to do took up a huge portion of the day, but it was actually a really simple solution in flexbox. I don’t know why I’m so resistant of it. I guess I just feel like everything should work in grid – flexbox feels hacky.
Read moreDo Not Repeat Yourself
I’m a slow coder. That’s fine at the moment – it’s not my day job and no one is paying me to do it. I enjoy going step-by-step and seeing the results and tweaking this and that. What I despise doing, though, is over-coding.
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