Hello World!
So this looks like this...
Hello World! 
It took 15 commits and 5 days to realise that having a personal site built purely with HTML, CSS, and JS was going to be a nightmare challenge in the long run. Realistically I just want to show off some projects, produce some guides on what I find difficult to get answers for, and the occasional post here and there - what I don’t really want to be doing is handcrafting every single little button with loving care and attention for hours on end when I could be focusing on what’s important.
Jekyll & Liquid to the Rescue!
I’ve never used Jekyll before but from the docs and a few projects I’ve seen it looks like a very suitable static site generator with a large supporting community behind it. The idea of just writing all my posts in Markdown as well as using the Liquid template engine and having it all just work like magic 
is very appealing!
Dark Poole
The home page for this site is just migrated over from the old version however the blog and projects links will be making full of use of Jekyll and the theme I’ve chosen currently is Dark Poole by Andrew Park as you’ve got to love a good dark theme!
The theme itself has made it a lot easier to quickly generate the Jekyll site structure but I’ve made a few changes including:
- Adding the subtitle as a variable
- Adding a little more space between the header tags for some breathing room
- Reducing the size of the posted date
- Tag system (based from one made by Ryan Palo)
- Plus a few more tweaks!