Progress! Well, not yet, but it's coming! I haven't update this blog in a bit, but I've still been working on the site itself in the meantime. I don't really like that, at the time this is being written, the main page is just a long list of every post I've made, so I'm making an archive page and a sidebar with links to older posts. I hate that my "Contact Me" page looks like it was ripped right out of a 1994 Geocities website, so I'm moving that to the sidebar too. The sidebar takes up too much space if the site is viewed from a mobile phone, I've made it to where the sidebar isn't there if the screen is too narrow for it to display well. If you, dear reader, want to see what it looks like once it's live, just turn your phone sideways and you should see it. I haven't deployed it yet, but it shouldn't be much longer.
I haven't been able to put much time into the site recently. Work has been hectic. I've had three of the last 34 days off and I don't have another scheduled day off until the 23rd. I've signed up for every second of overtime I can get and will continue to do so for as long as they'll let me. With how busy things have been recently, it seems like they'll keep letting me.
Things I still need to do for the site (that I can think of):
- I need to work on the CSS for the archive page. I finally got the JavaScript and HTML working, now I just need to make it less ugly.
- I still need to change up the JavaScript on the main page to limit the number of posts. Without that, what's the point of an archive page? Right now, it loops through every post given by the Blogger API and spits out the title, date, content, etc. I just need to change that loop to stop after the most recent five or so. I have an idea of how to accomplish that, but putting it into place should be a fun learning experience.
- I should probably 86 the Contact Me page all together, then clean up my top navigation bar. Maybe I'll go ahead and redo the entire top nav bar.