Welcome to the New Website!

Why?

With this post going live, my website ems7d4.com has been completely re-built from the ground up. Previously, I had written every page by hand in the spirit of web1.0, but this was tedious and got in the way of sharing what I wanted to share. With the update I hope to add content with much greater frequency and ease, and shift the website to a method for sharing information on my other projects rather than a project iself.

How?

Previously, my website consisted of a handful of html files that lived in my github pages repository.
Now, I use the static site generator Jekyll to generate the actual html for me while I write the pages in markdown. This keeps me from having to write html for every page, which was time consuming and frustrating.
To set up and configure Jekyll, I followed github’s guide on setting up github pages with Jekyll.
To make everything look beautiful, I used the Jekyll theme Chirpy and their wiki.