Greetings!
This blog update is short and sweet! I managed to make the blog posts have the same layout as the rest of the site.
Previously, they just looked like a dark gray page with the text aligned to the left, and no site header on the top of the page.
As you can see, that is not the case anymore. I wish I could show a before and after picture, but I think I'll save that feature for the next update.
Maybe I'll even update this blog post when the image feature is added!
Also included in this update is the ability to tag my blog posts.
The tags are clickable so that it redirects to a page with other similarly tagged posts.
All tags used in my blog can be viewed by navigating to andropinpin.page/tags.
As an idea for a future update, I think I will add a place where the top tags can be be easily seen somewhere on the main page.
Lessons learned: For the most part, today was a lot of copy and paste. I laid down some foundation for the work done today in previous weeks, so I didn't run into a lot of issues in general.
The hardest part of today is definitely figuring out the interplay with GraphQL queries and accessing the results while using an unfamiliar programming language and paradigm, in this case Javascript. I am still a newbie when it comes to both GraphQL and Javascript, so I have no idea how any of this is even working. Honestly. Sure, I can figure out the syntax, but I am still not sure why a particular piece of code works the way it does.
So I guess the lesson learned for me is that I am still mostly clueless and I still have a long way to go. That is both terrifying but also exciting!
Future planned updates:
-Add images to blog and/or add capability if needed.
-Update blog style.
-Add Tags page or maybe a Tags section on the sidebar.
-Add a sidebar?
Thanks for reading,
Andro :)