From fafad80e473b6a0e5d8e593cccc9f854b594e076 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joey Hines Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2020 22:01:19 -0600 Subject: [PATCH] Updated website.rst --- static/raw_rst/projects/website.rst | 17 ++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/static/raw_rst/projects/website.rst b/static/raw_rst/projects/website.rst index d6a718a..e596ff9 100644 --- a/static/raw_rst/projects/website.rst +++ b/static/raw_rst/projects/website.rst @@ -15,7 +15,7 @@ Picking Rust and Rocket As I am not much of a UI person, the website update was put on the back burner for sometime. The old site was "good enough." I originally considered doing it in Python and using Django. But that fails the criteria of being easily deployable. In early 2020, I began learning Rust out of curiosity and the need to use it for research. -I decided to tackle the website backend in Rust as a learning exercise. I then went with the Rocket framework. It +I decided to tackle the website backend in Rust as a learning exercise. I went with the Rocket framework. It seemed to suit my needs and supported Tera templates. Tera templates are very similar to Django's templates that I had already had experience in. @@ -32,14 +32,13 @@ character of a file name is its rank. For example, my resume is in a file called Improving Aesthetics -------------------- -Like stated early, I am no UI designer. The terminal style meant I could put very little effort into the design of the -actual website. Somehow on version one, I still managed to mess that up. This was mainly due to hacking together -bootstrap to give me something that looked like a terminal. This time, I dumped Bootstrap and wrote my own CSS. I should -have done that the first place as it was easy to do and produced a far better result. This also by side effect improved -on the site looked on mobile. +Like stated earlier, I am no UI designer. The terminal style meant I could put very little effort into the design of the +actual website. Somehow in version one, I still managed to mess that up. This was mainly due to hacking together +bootstrap to give me something that looked like a terminal. This time, I dumped Bootstrap and wrote my own CSS. I should +have done that the first place as it was easy to do and produced a far better result. This also has the side effect of +improving how the site looked on mobile. Future Improvements ------------------- -As I continue to learn Rust, I plan to implement more features of RST into the raw file displays. For example, doing -links. I want to strike a balance between the aesthetic of a terminal and usefulness. Being able to embedded images -would be nice. \ No newline at end of file +As I continue to learn Rust, I plan to implement more features of RST into the raw file displays. Having clickable +links or embedding images. I want to strike a balance between the aesthetic of a terminal and ease of use of a website. \ No newline at end of file