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+title: "Bottom_of_the_Stack"
+date: 2023-02-18T11:39:24-08:00
+description: Web Development - html/css
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+I\'ll start things off with the *design goals* of this very website and
+what *I have done so far* to get things going.
+
+Unless things have changed drastically by the time you read this
+**\[which I doubt it has\]**, it should be a fairly vanilla 1995 World
+Wide Web experience. There are a couple reasons I chose to go this
+route.
+
+Aside from the glaring hurdle that is my complete lack of any formal or
+informal web development experience, I like keeping the [UNIX
+philosophy](https://homepage.cs.uri.edu/~thenry/resources/unix_art/ch01s06.html)
+in mind when working on my projects
+**\[although manipulated to mean exactly what I want it to mean at any
+given time\]**. For those unfamiliar, the basic principle is to design
+programs to *do one thing and one thing well*. I want this website to be
+a place where I throw my ideas into the void and can reference them
+later **\[and maybe share some of that knowledge to the few that find
+themselves here\]**. Although fun, interactive, dynamic features would
+be cool to look at, I think it, ultimately, restricts my ability to
+complete this goal effectively.
+
+That isn\'t to say that I am completely against adding any scripting for
+the sake of learning or experimenting **\[this IS a hobby website after
+all\]**, but I do want to be able to quickly document my progress
+without too much thought on aesthetic **\[aside from some font
+colors\]**.
+
+But let me get down to brass tacks, what have I done so far.
+
+Well if I am being completely honest, we aren\'t even online yet. I
+bought a domain name from
+[dynadot](https://www.dynadot.com/)
+and have a
+[Vultr](https://www.vultr.com/)
+VPS **\[hosting some other things at the
+moment\]**, but haven\'t set anything else up. I\'ll look up some guides
+tomorrow **\[famous last words\]** to see how to get us up and running.
+
+So that\'s what I haven\'t done. *What I have done* is started getting
+comfortable with *HTML/CSS*. I have written in other markup languages
+like Markdown and LaTeX so it wasn\'t too painful to pick up but getting
+used to syntax is something you can\'t really rush **\[maybe you can but
+I can\'t\]**.
+
+So, a few of the things I\'ve learned so far:
+
+1.  Basic HTML structure ie. Defining a page with *\"\<!DOCTYPE
+    html\>\"* as well as *\<head\>*, *\<body\>*, and *\<html\>* tags.
+2.  Other Basic HTML tags ie. *\<p\>*, *\<strong\>*, *\<em\>*, etc.
+3.  How to link to a style sheet **\[a cascading one to be exact\]**
+    with\
+    *\<link rel=\"stylesheet\" type=\"text/css\" href=\"\$(LOCATION OF
+    THE STYLE SHEET)\" /\>*
+4.  Defining specific tags with *id*, ie. *id=\"name_of_tag\"*
+5.  Basic CSS syntax
+6.  Referencing specific tags by id with *#\$(ID_NAME)*
+
+Next *TODOS! **\[Can be updated throughout the week\]***
+
+-   Link Domain Name to VPS
+-   nGinx, WHAT IS THAT?
+-   Look into hosting git server
+-   Set up gitolite for git permissions
+-   Set up stagit for git visualization
+-   Possibly Peertube for embedded videos
+
+