Kev Quirk

Following a hardware failure in Feb 2019, I moved away from my old Synology to a home built server running Nextcloud. I’ve now moved back to Synology. This post explains why.

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Creating this light website has been really fun, but in its current form, there isn’t much you can do with it. You may want to use it as a place for sharing your thoughts or knowledge with the world. So in this post we’re going to add a blog.

Full post: https://kevq.uk/making-a-website-05-adding-a-blog/

The writer talks about how the big mail corporations, like Gmail and Office 365, are so popular that they’re centralising an open standard. This can be a problem for a number of reasons, which the OP (Original Poster) talks about.

Full post: https://kevq.uk/decentralised-smtp-is-for-the-greater-good/

Our light website is coming along nicely! By now you should have a light website that looks good, has multiple pages and a menu. But there’s still some work to do – today we’re going to make our website responsive.

Full post: https://kevq.uk/making-a-website-04-responsiveness/

Since I decided to start writing more, I’ve been deliberately posting shorter form posts, some of which have been created on my iPad. This post talks about what that experience has been like for me.

Full post: https://kevq.uk/writing-on-my-ipad/

I’ve had a lot of feedback in the past about adding a dark mode to this website. I always resisted doing this, as I wanted my theme just how I designed it – to be a first class citizen.

Full post: https://kevq.uk/automatic-dark-mode/

From the previous post, we now have a pretty good looking webpage, but it's now time to turn it into a website. Let's add some more pages and a menu.

Full post: https://kevq.uk/making-a-website-03-menus/

In the last Making A Light Website post, we went through the basics of getting a simple website. In this post we will look at adding to our light website.

Full post: https://kevq.uk/making-a-website-02-design/

In this Making A Website post, we're looking at the very first steps of actually making a website. It's super simple at the moment, but it will get better.

Full post: https://kevq.uk/making-a-website-01-the-basics/

This new series will assist in making a website that is simple, quick, responsive and looks good. Making a website isn't that hard and is a lot of fun.

Full post: https://kevq.uk/making-a-website/