Looking at setting up parameters for a blogging format.

To me it seems like a fairly good plan to work along through the additions or changes which I would like to make to the ‘HDUB Pixel Art Edition’ program. Then, at the same time I should write a blog post about what is motivating the additional codework and then link to some example page which are made using the new tool. That way it will satisfy several interests simultaneously.

Most likely I can just recycle a lot of the imagery that is directly part of the ‘HDUB Pixel Art Edition’ interface, because that is what I will be talking about anyhow. So, in theory, this could be a pretty good thing to start doing, improving my personal workflow greatly and crossing together all of the necessities of both coding and advertising for this new project at the same time.

This might also help with my own personal motivation, pushing myself to continue to work through whatever new challenges I might face, though, the majority of the most difficult parts of the program are already done.

This is more like the icing on the cake.

The most important decisions about the program, and the most difficult point in the code have been finished for quite some time, and since then I have been trying to ‘zero-in’ on the most crucial additions that can be made to enhance the program for a beginner.

The best thing about this program is that it is a ‘one-stop-shop’ in the sense that you can now save a complete 20 page website as a single zipped package. You even get a sitemap and an RSS feed happening right away, which is crucial for SEO if you want to get picked up on google. Aside from that it is also very important to have the RSS set up so that someone else can have a very lightweight method of following your new posts.

I could make it somewhat tutorial in nature.

This new format could help to give a more interesting, and less ‘dry’ form of insight into how the program is used. That might be helpful for someone who is not an ’exploratory learner’.

As the first order of business, I will draw a little example that will show which button to press when you want to save your entire project. Maybe that will help? Then that way I can also test whether the RSS feed and the sitemap is really working or not.

Wish me luck!

Oh wait! I don’t have a convenient way to link between the pages.

So, I will try to write the few lines of code that will make that happen easily. Maybe that should be the first thing that I draw up as part of this new coding/blogging format? Sure, why not…

Finally I can link the pages to each other.

The only problem now is that there is no way to have a valid sitemap/rss unless I have a way to enter the domain name into the program… where would that even go? There’s no room left in the menu! Maybe I’ll need to fit it into there somewhere.

That’s a job for another day… Right now, I guess they are just there symbolically. They don’t really do anything… BAH!

I suppose, ultimately, I’m going to need to have everything that any other SSG needs as input. I guess I should just try to use that as a model.

Here is the link to the set of pages that I have been trying to get working.

Simple Two Page Project Example with links