I’m not a very good graphics artist/web designer. That doesn’t stop my trying though, as you’ll see through this site, and a plethora of others. I’m getting better all the time, but I’m still not up to a decent grade. This article is about one of those “getting better” moments, and I thought I’d share. One of the things I like my sites to do is to behave differently on different sized screens, mobiles in particular.

I’ve been playing with jekyll to create my website over the past few days. Primarily, I’m doing it to play with Ruby, but its also nice to have a new website :) Jekyll produces a static site, but does this using templates and markup. Its remarkably easy to set up a site, and to give it the look and feel that you want. Any dynamic capability can be provided by external services (e.

This site is primarily intended to allow me to play around with new stuff. As part of this, I’m playing with Jekyll, which is a simple, ruby based web generator which creates static sites programatically. Some advantages: Simpler hosting requirements. All you need is a web server like Apache If you want dynamic capabiilties, they can be added in via javascript. Will be able to survive a slashdotting (not that that is ever likely to happen to me) Not hackable through attacks on the CMS product, because there isn’t one Uses Markdown, which makes writing the content much easier.