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Imminent story and lazy HTML work
Mar. 15th, 2023 09:55 amThe story I've been working on for the past while is actually really almost done. It just needs some editing and polish unless my readers come back and say "this whole section could be taken out, you bat," which I would welcome because 9k words is rather long-winded for a short story.
Before it goes up elsewhere on the Internet, it'll go on my website in a new section specifically for stories. Unfortunately, Past Arlo decided iframes were for the birds and manually inserted a navbar on every page, thinking that because there would only be a handful of main pages, updating them would be annoying but doable. Note that I said "every page" and "main pages." There are navbars on article/story pages. Just like that, the work multiplies like rabbits.
So right now, I'm giving myself a crash course in iframes and absolutely not copying my homework from someone else's page. A quick DDG search recommended that I use PHP and/or JQuery for this. Look, Internet, I'm a worder. Markup languages are about as far as I want to go code-wise for creative pursuits. I'm burning enough time wondering how to get the navbar to render how I want. Although I don't write enough to justify ultra-streamlining my workflow for maximum ROI with WordPress (meaning I don't have a reason to risk upstream vulnerabilities), I don't want to spend an outsized proportion of time building pages for stuff instead of actually writing stuff. In theory, I could also use a static site generator to do this kind of thing automatically without needing to use iframes, but I like Geany's organization and autocomplete better.
In short, things are quiet because I've been busy. Aren't we all.
Before it goes up elsewhere on the Internet, it'll go on my website in a new section specifically for stories. Unfortunately, Past Arlo decided iframes were for the birds and manually inserted a navbar on every page, thinking that because there would only be a handful of main pages, updating them would be annoying but doable. Note that I said "every page" and "main pages." There are navbars on article/story pages. Just like that, the work multiplies like rabbits.
So right now, I'm giving myself a crash course in iframes and absolutely not copying my homework from someone else's page. A quick DDG search recommended that I use PHP and/or JQuery for this. Look, Internet, I'm a worder. Markup languages are about as far as I want to go code-wise for creative pursuits. I'm burning enough time wondering how to get the navbar to render how I want. Although I don't write enough to justify ultra-streamlining my workflow for maximum ROI with WordPress (meaning I don't have a reason to risk upstream vulnerabilities), I don't want to spend an outsized proportion of time building pages for stuff instead of actually writing stuff. In theory, I could also use a static site generator to do this kind of thing automatically without needing to use iframes, but I like Geany's organization and autocomplete better.
In short, things are quiet because I've been busy. Aren't we all.