I am currently working on new design for my site using HTML5, CSS and a sprinkling of JavaScript. Once I started building my basic design I was re-acquainted with a process that really, really annoys me; the constant tweak refresh loop associated with developing a new site layout. So in true yak shaving sysadmin fashion I got side tracked looking for a solution to this problem.
After considering the issue for a bit it dawned on me that this may be a good excuse to try out LessCSS JavaScript library....
Recently I started work on a new site which I plan to use underscore.js and backbone.js. Starting a site from scratch can be quite a chore, as well as time consuming. To remedy this I decided to take the plunge and give the html5boilerplate project a try, this project is designed to kickstart your html5 site development with a shell containing all of the stuff that you need to begin with....
First post from my newly migrated blog reviewing migration from wordpress to Jekyll and Disqus.
Jekyll for site generation. Sass for simplified css goodness. Pygments code highlighting. Disqus Following some of the sites which use Jekyll, I generated the skeleton and began building my site using Jekyll. After trialing some of the code highlighting options I selected pygments, this was to ensure my code samples looked good.
Once the base was configured and working I moved on to add a plugin to utilise Sass in my website....