Setting up the Blog

Before actually doing any writing, I had to create the thing.

I’ll babble for a bit since I need to fill out the page.

  1. This should be a list, I think?
  2. Second Item
  3. Lists always look best with at least three items.

Ok, lets try <this> and <that>

What happens if I try to add a card here?

Shoes

Card Title

A card component has a figure, a body part, and inside body there are title and actions parts

Or color a specific word?

Seems to work.

How about an unordered list?

  • What does this look like
    • Second level?
  • Back to first

I’ll need to figure out something about the hero div screwing up the idea of centering.

Creating the content collection

Here I’ll actually start explaining the pieces that make up the blog. Aside from the page’s base layout, which I’ll post about later. The first step is deciding how we want the “content” to be stored.

Theres a million different ways to do this, but I’ve decided on using local markdown files stored directly in the repo. It’s easy, cheap (read: free), and I can use any local markdown editor I want.

Next, we turn our attention to Astro Content Collections.