Improving Your Websites

I figured out how to make some minor adjustments to the style of my website to make it look a lot better. Even though they are minor adjustments, they are pretty important improvements.

I changed the font by going to Appearance>Theme Editor and then scrolling down to the Typography section and copy and pasting the font of the h3 headers into the textarea and h6 header sections.

I also went to Plugins>Add New and installed the Advanced Excerpts plugin, so now the blog on the front page of homeoffice.studio displays excerpts of each blog post, instead of the entire posts.

So now, I have a decent looking front page, with a modern looking sans serif font and a list of excerpts of my blog posts, instead of 9 complete blog posts.

Keep making small improvements to your website like this and pretty soon you will be a professional blogger. Work on learn how to set up your local development environment.

LXD seems to be a containerization system for Linux. It is developed by Canonical and works well with Ubuntu. I’m not sure how well it will work with Manjaro.

It may even be a good idea to go with full blown Docker Community Edition. LXD may not be very cross platform. Even though I am encouraging people to use Linux, I want anyone to be able to benefit from my stories. LXD is Linux Containers.

Yeah, I’m thinking I might just stick with Docker Community Edition. Even though I recommend using Linux, most home office based entrepreneurs are probably going to use Mac or Windows.

Here I am, thinking out loud on my blog. I like making progress. This is fun. Like putting a 2000 piece jigsaw puzzle together.

Take your time. I already have LXD installed. Is that going to interfere with Docker CE? And then, getting Docker, Git, SSH, XAMPP, Python and Django all set up right.

I’ll probably use Gitlab, rather than Github, just because Gitlab is an independent company, rather than a division of Microsoft. Inrupt’s Solid may be a good alternative to Gitlab. I’m not sure.

A good service that is a combination of Dropbox and Gitlab would be great. So we can store all of our data, including the files in our computer home directories, including all of our websites.

We’ll use SSH to keep the files on our computers in sync with the files on Solid; and all of our websites, on our local development environment, solid and our web hosting service in sync with each other.

Or perhaps we’ll keep our home files backed up on Dropbox; and our websites, and any other applications, backed up on Gitlab.

Its a complicated challenge. Have fun building your local development environment and make sure you are using at least two computers, so you have a back up if one of them is lost for any reason.

Keep writing. On a regular basis. Cultivate the habit of writing about your topics. Cultivate your workflow. Improve your productivity, every chance you get.

Peace.