A new style a day
The other day I was wondering why I after less than a year always have the urge to renew my webpage. After surfing around on the web for a few hours, I found out that the answer is actually very simple. The problem was not that the design of the website itself was outdated, but that I just wanted something different, to try something new. Now, this is all going to change.
Back to the drawing board!
So, why would I want to redesign? Maybe I had some new-found motivation, or had a bright idea of something, a vision! What I needed was a solution. We'll, I found one now. What did I need a solution to? The entire problem can be summarized in one word. "Templates". By templates I mean the way a webpage is constructed. Basically all modern web pages that are used for publishing (blogs, articles, etc.) are database driven. You have a big database that contains your articles. When the web server turns this into a webpage, it has a template for doing so. It will just insert the article title, maybe subtitle, a picture and insert the content. What is the problem with this? Well, every page looks basically the same...
I have never been a big fan of WordPress (a publishing framework) and solutions like that, because it forces me to wrap my creativity around a framework, instead of making a framework around my creativity. Yet, somehow, even a custom made framework ends up forcing you into a pattern. All your posts end up getting the same style as they are compiled with the same template. As I see it now, this template style thinking has put the brakes on our creativity. Have you ever seen a magazine where every single page has the same basic layout? Well, then why should a webpage do so? I find that even some of the most flexible frameworks force you to work overtime to really have a unique design for every page.
Where do we go from here?
This webpage, which has server as little but a playground for untested code, will be the testing ground for a new framework that I am building. This framework is not a tool for those who have no interest in learning HTML, CSS, JavaScript, but it will be a guide for those who want every page to be a creative bang.
So, if it doesn't make it easier for people who don't know coding, who is it for? This framework will allow you the freedom of doing everything by hand as far as a single post goes, whilst taking care of all other things. It will push your unique post into a system so that it automatically becomes connected with the rest of your webpage.
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