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01 HTML/CSS Experiment

01 HTML/CSS Experiment

The first blog experiment uses plain HTML and CSS. Its purpose is to make the basic mechanics visible before adding a static site generator or build tool.

What Worked

Each page is easy to open directly in a browser.
Relative links, images, page structure, and CSS are visible instead of hidden behind tooling.
The Pythonland bundle shows how a multi-page topic can live in one folder with one shared stylesheet.
Metadata comments at the top of HTML files give the project a simple way to describe posts before a formal content system exists.

Pain Points

Navigation has to be updated by hand on every page.
Shared layout patterns are duplicated across files.
Manual HTML can drift away from any Markdown source that may exist later.
Indexes, archives, tags, and next/previous links are all manual.

Next Steps

Keep the HTML/CSS folder as a preserved experiment under experiments/01-html-css/.
Use this note as the durable lab record for the workflow.
Move future reader-facing source posts toward content/posts/ when they are written in Markdown.
Compare this manual workflow against the Pelican experiment before choosing what belongs in the public site.