Welcome to another iteration of my website! This is the fourth website of my stuff on the internet since 1997. This one carries over most of the content from the last one, but presents it slightly differently.
My aims for this version were:
- Keep the content and URLs the same.
- Don’t look terrible on mobiles etc.
- Don’t have loads of server dependencies on things like databases.
- Avoid Javascript and externally loaded cruft.
- Be easy to maintain.
The old site was based on Typo, a complicated Rails-based CMS using Postgres as a database. The new one uses the Hugo static site compiler. So no database, just static files. I adapted a responsive theme and removed its Javascript (which was just for displaying images). I can maintain it all in over SSH in Vim, no terrible web editing interface to contend with.
I hope you like it. Below there are some images of the previous versions, they seem to get paler each time.
My first website, from 1997 to 1999 or so
The first barnoid.org.uk, from 2003 to 2010
barnoid.org.uk 2.0 beta, from 2010 to 2018