Four (no, Five) Types Of Website Content
I've got the next iteration of Neopoligen1 up and running. You can now nest sections inside of lists. That was one of the last big friction points I was trying to solve. With it out of the way I can feel my brain click over to making stuff rather than making the tool to make stuff.
Thinking about the content has lead me to an idea of splitting things into four categories:
- Pages - Stuff without dates like the home page and writing that isn't tied to a specific time.
- Posts - Traditional blog posts with dates and titles
- Shorts - Mastodon/Twitter style posts that are done chronologically, but are more ephemeral. The defining characteristic is that they don't have titles.
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Database - Collections of videos, bookmarks, quotes, whatever. The idea is to have files that contain these things but not push those pages forward with the posts or shorts. They're used more for assembling into other pages. For example, I'm adding a
latertag to videos I want to watch. I'll build a page that just displays a random one of those whenever I hit it so I can just pull stuff from the archive. - Container - A file that's designed to be included as an entire section in other page.
That database idea is new to me. I'm sure it'll evolve as I work with the site, but the general ability to tag individual pieces of content feels like it's going to be super userful.
Endnotes
48 hours later and I realized there's another type of of content. Containers. So, like a single file might be just a section that gets included in another page. I was already working on includes, but I was thinking about them from the section level. I just realized they can be done at the page level too.
References
My website building app. I need to clean up some things that are hard coded to my computer and then the next iteration will be ready to go. I'll actually be publicising this one.