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title: The redesign of my website
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date: 2021-10-18T14:03:05-05:00
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lastmod: 2021-10-27T09:51:43-05:00
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toc: true
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comments: true
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authors:
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- bbaovanc
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categories:
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- meta
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tags:
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- bobatheme
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- hugo
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- web-development
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resources:
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- name: feature
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src: bobatheme.webp
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title: Homepage on bbaovanc.com, using bobatheme.
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- name: actions-comment
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src: github-actions-deploy-comment.webp
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title: Comment from GitHub Actions that links to the pull request preview.
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- name: deployment
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src: pull-request-deployment.webp
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title: GitHub deployments are created for the previews as well.
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---
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For the past three weeks I've been designing and perfecting a new theme for my
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website with the goal of keeping it simple but not ugly.
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<!--more-->
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## A total redesign
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I've switched to a new theme. Visually, it's similar to
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[hugo-bearblog](https://github.com/janraasch/hugo-bearblog) which was the theme
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I had previously. Bearblog does a great job for being simple and very light, but
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it's not featureful enough for me. bobatheme has a lot of fancy features thanks
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to Hugo. For example: list pages (such as [/blog/]({{< ref "/blog/" >}})) have
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previews for each article, including featured images or videos for select
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articles. You can also link to specific headers in an article, and articles have
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metadata such as word count, reading time, and the git commit that last modified
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them. My favorite new feature, however, is that bobatheme has icons.
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### Icons
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I'm using an icon pack called [Feather](https://feathericons.com/). Using Hugo,
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I have a template that just takes the contents of the SVG file and inserts it
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directly into the HTML source code. While that increases the size of the HTML
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file, it minimizes the amount of requests that your browser has to make, and in
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a lot of cases, it will reduce the total amount of data you have to download
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thanks to compression.
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### No JavaScript (yet)
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There isn't any JavaScript yet, but in the future I'll use a little to add small
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features such as copying code blocks to the clipboard.
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## My website is on GitHub
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My website's source code was previously on git.bbaovanc.com, but I migrated it
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to [a new repository on GitHub](https://github.com/BBaoVanC/bbaovanc.com) so I
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could use Netlify/GitHub Actions to automatically build website previews for
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pull requests.
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### Automatic Pull Request Previews
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Every pull request has its own preview built for it using GitHub Actions, which
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is linked in a comment, and shown as a deployment on the pull request.
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{{< figure src="actions-comment" >}}
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{{< figure src="deployment" >}}
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## Translations
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I'm working on translating all pages on my site to Spanish. If you know Spanish,
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or any other languages, I'd appreciate if you could help out by reviewing
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existing translations, or submitting new ones. See the [contributing
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guidelines](https://github.com/BBaoVanC/bbaovanc.com/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#translations)
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for more information).
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### Tracking Status
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I'm currently tracking translation status using [GitHub
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projects](https://github.com/BBaoVanC/bbaovanc.com/projects). There's a
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[Translation Pull Requests](https://github.com/BBaoVanC/bbaovanc.com/projects/1)
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project which tracks the review status of translation pull requests in all
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languages. If you want to look at pull requests for a specific language, you can
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filter by the label (for example: Spanish is `translate-es`).
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### Contribute translations
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If you speak any other languages (especially Spanish), then I'd really
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appreciate it if you could review any [open translation-related pull
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requests](https://github.com/BBaoVanC/bbaovanc.com/pulls?q=is%3Apr+is%3Aopen+label%3Atranslation-needs-review).
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If you have some free time, I'd also appreciate it even more if you could create
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some new translations into other languages, or write translations for pages that
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aren't already translated.
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Just remember to read the [contribution
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guidelines](https://github.com/BBaoVanC/bbaovanc.com/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#translations)
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before contributing as I have some important information such as how to format
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pull requests and how to build the site yourself instead of having to wait for
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Netlify. You can also look at any existing translation related pull requests as
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an example.
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