So I'm making a gallery website

cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/9436690

The first post I brought it up in. I don't know if I'll finish it, but I have started to write it. I even went so far as to get a domain. It wasn't my first choice, but its not bad. So any ideas, features, etc.. are welcome, as is anybody that wants to help with it or advice for making it. I'm not quite ready to give out the name publicly yet, but if anybody is curious I'll message you.

Linkyu 2 points 2 years ago

Oh man, same boat. (Though for me I'm just making a whole blog instead; I found it more flexible to my needs.)

The best general advice I can give, is to define early and clearly what features you want, and to stick to that. If you get any idea for extra features along the way, reserve them for a future version. This will help you break down the work, and avoid scope creep.

Have you already chosen a framework for the front and back ends?

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l_b_i 1 point 2 years ago

No front end yet, I'm really hoping somebody will want to help with that, but I would prefer as little JavaScript running as possible.
The only applicable language I already knew was Python, so I'm going with flask for the back end.
Currently the website just has a static page I generated with Jekyll.

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Linkyu 2 points 2 years ago

OK, I'm less familiar with flask, but for the front-end logic, jinja fits well into your needs, I think

I'd definitely recommend also using a css framework too, because it takes a lot of the legwork away from you. Most have JS dependencies, but there's Bulma, which is a no-JS one that's easy to customize.

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l_b_i 1 point 2 years ago

I think jinja is actually sort of built into Flask. As much css/html that I can offload the better.

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l_b_i 1 point 2 years ago

In a set of coincidences, I was looking through my history and @soatok@furry.engineer posted a blog about furry blogs if you are interested in spreading knowledge of your blog. The word blog only appears 4 times in this post, but that feels like a lot for the length of it.

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