@florrie Thanks. That was the idea. I wanted to present a lot of text and make it as easy to read possible.

But I'm not a designer either. Just a developer who writes sci-fi on his lunch breaks. :)

@kevinja

> Dude... that looks really clean and focused. I like it.

Thanks. I don't have the training/experience to make fancy design look good, so I decided to go clean and minimalist.

> Does Pelican make an RSS feed? I'm old school like that.

RSS/Atom are built in. I added Jinja templates to generate JSON feeds and an ActivityPub profile and outbox. :)

> the "Starbreaker" link in the header has an extra "/about" in the URL

Thanks. I'm aware of that and I'll get it fixed ASAP.

@starbreaker Cool - I found the feeds - got you in my feed reader now.

@kevinja Thanks! That reminds me; I should update my author profile on Amazon to pull my current feed.

@kevinja BTW, the site's source is on GitHub at http://github.com/matthewgraybosch/pelican.matthewgraybosch.com.

@kevinja Fixed the Starbreaker link, btw. Thanks again.

@dredmorbius I've been avoiding logos for a couple of reasons:

1. I know fuck-all about logo design
2. I don't want to pay somebody who knows more about logo design than I do (which is just about everybody).

Also, some pages and blog posts have images, but I'm trying to minimize that because images are a major source of web page bloat. I want people on dialup to be able to visit my site.

@starbreaker No reason to rush into anything. I know nothing about logos myself, but had a few concepts to kick around for my collateral -- the Kosmic Kat image (originally with an animation in the spectacles), the thought of adapting the Reddit Snoo, and some time in Inkscape.

A headshot, book art, a particular image or something of that nature, can work.

My thinking is that /starting/ from a very vanilla design, adding something like a letterhead styling might distinguish sites.

@starbreaker SVGs are particularly lightweight (and/or compress well to PNG or JPG formats). It's fun to muck about with stuff or ideas.

@dredmorbius Thanks for taking a look, BTW. I figure this should be a site where you won't need to tweak the stylesheet too much. :)

@starbreaker Quite not 😉

@windmills Thanks.

@emdeesee It's not exactly the correct semantic, but it gave me the visual effect I wanted without a lot of CSS. It was basically a shortcut that should replace with the correct markup and more styling.