I'm publishing a series of blog posts, over which I am exploring the design decisions and concepts behind my attempt to build a static website from scratch. Admittedly, I am currently publishing these on an already existing static website (the one that you can see), but for this series, I'm going back over the design and build process.
| Published | Updated | Title | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 01-AUG-2025 | 13-AUG-2025 | Building a static website (part 1) | Building a static website from scratch using text files, bash scripts and free tools. Follow along as I attempt to create my website and explain the various design decisions behind my approach. |
| 07-AUG-2025 | Building a static website (part 2: Introduction to images) | Building a static website from scratch using text files, bash scripts and free tools. In this blog post, I start looking at the subject of displaying images within webpages. | |
| 18-AUG-2025 | Building a static website (part 3: Screen sizes, logical and physical pixels, resolution and scaling factor) | Building a static website from scratch using text files, bash scripts and free tools. In this blog post, I start looking at the vexed issue of physical and logical sizes, resolution and scaling factor. | |
| 21-AUG-2025 | 30-AUG-2025 | Building a static website (part 4: Adding some navigation) | In this post, I look at adding basic site navigation, some CSS and web page structure. |
| 30-AUG-2025 | 06-SEP-2025 | Building a static website (part 5: Introduction to responsive images) | In this blog post, I start looking at the subject of displaying responsive images within webpages. |
| 06-SEP-2025 | 10-SEP-2025 | Building a static website (part 6: The CSS box model) | In this blog post, I look at the CSS box model. |
| 10-SEP-2025 | Building a static website (part 7: The CSS reset) | In this blog post, I look at "resetting the CSS", to take better control of the layout. |