Content versus design
The benefit and dangers of being in total control!
Now that this blog is hosted on Github Pages and using Jekyll as the technology, in theory I now have total control over both the content and the design of the blog.
For me this presents a wonderful opportunity, but also a great danger. It's quite possible that I'll just obsess about the design, and never write any posts at all!
I've decided to do one thing that I hope will support me
in keeping the two concerns apart. 'Themes' are what controls how a Jekyll looks. I discovered that there is a remote_theme plugin that allows you to specify a theme held in a separate repository. Right now I have;
remote_theme: benbalter/retlab
which exploits the retlab theme from Ben Balter. If I ever want to tweak it, I'll fork it into a new repo, e.g. robs-theme and be able to
specify;
remote_theme: robphippen/robs-theme
That means I won't 'pollute' this repo with design stuff. When I want to think 'content' I'll come to this repo instead.
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