Category Website

So long, Grav, and thanks for all the fish

Grav did me proud for 5 years. I’m glad that I played with it, and I learned an awful lot about content management systems. However, I think it’s time to move on. Grav is a “flat file” CMS. That means…

Should I post more?

I had hoped that I’d find a more convenient way of writing into this blog. I’m not a diary keeper or a writer, normally, but I’ve been hacking about with things, running into problems and finding novel solutions to things…

Site refresh time?

It’s been a LONG time since I set this site up. I had high hopes of using it as a dumping ground for whatever I was doing, but it turned out that it was harder to use than I anticipated.…

SSL Certs… Why for a blog?

Personally, I think SSL certificates are only worthwhile if you’re transferring secret information, like bank records or passwords, but I’m finding that more and more sites are just adding SSL anyway. I’ve got a personal axe to grind in that…

Moar Content!!!

It’s been a quiet week, and I’ve had a few days holiday, so I’ve been trawling back through my back-catalog of tools and utilities to add into this site. A long time ago I worked at a company where we…

Images uploaded and site started….

Getting used to a flat-file CMS take some uphill learning. There’s so much to learn. PHP, CSS, Templates, Twig, and of course Grav’s rather off-tempo way of doing things. I played with a very unusual content management system many years…

Getting started with Grav

Funnily enough I’ve had this domain and hosting space for almost two years and I keep meaning to do stuff with it, but never seem to find the time. I had hoped that, due to the lockdown during 2020, that…