After a long hiatus, my personal website design — brianliddell.com — is (nearly) complete!
It’s a minimalist blog, featuring:
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A content-focused design for personal and independent publishing
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Built with Kirby, Tailwind, and Markdown
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Simple PHP, copied from Kirby’s templates 101 and creating a Kirby-powered blog recipes, and Bastian’s how to build a website from scratch tutorials
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A favourite posts layout that’s inspired by Kirby’s
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Careful topics page design, to make it easy to visualise content, and access older posts
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Loads of fast-and-easy Markdown hacks— for fancy typography, and more powerful responsive layouts
Content includes:
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A super-useful Markdown feature — that even @sebastiangreger and @thguenther didn’t know about!
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Step-by-step beginners’ tutorials for Tailwind and Kirby local development
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Easy-to-make woodworking designs — to extend your creativity, from pixels to plywood!
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Quirky bikes, Apple history, cycle touring, blogging, technology, tinkering, DIY, and much more planned…
… But only if I promote my blog to a few more geeks (like me), and re-motivate myself to start writing again!
Thanks to Bastian and the Kirby Team — for a fantastic CMS, support, and inspiration.