Site Design 2022-08-17
While I was thinking about stuff to do, I remembered that Google was yelling at me about mobile usability. (I don't know, the blog works fine on my phone...)
Anyway, that got me thinking about updates to make to the site.
For myself, I want to look into a few possibilities:
- Make the main content area wider, mainly to fit more code on the screen when I'm messing with code blocks. So, my maximum goal there is 76 characters.
- Add previous/next controls to the top of pages that only have them at the bottom (and vice versa, if applicable)
- SECRET BONUS STUFF
- Maybe I can try to get tags working again?
Google is raising a bunch of usability issues, but it's not raising them about any pages currently, and it only raises them about a few pages at a time, which... That's weird, right? I'm not doing anything radically different on different pages that would result in exactly seven pages having issues with:
- Small text (it can't be complaining about the main body text, right? That's 18px)
- Clickable elements too close together
- Viewport not set
I guess I'm going to have to research viewport stuff. Like, what's the viewport to set for "it's a static blog, I don't care"?
From further messing-around, I haven't gotten it to pin down a specific broken page, so I'm going to ignore the text and clickable elements for now, and look into the viewport, because I could believe that's an issue even if it doesn't show up when I have it test a page (???).
In any case, I'm going to finish up and publish this post, then queue up some reading for later on responsive web design, because I guess I need to look into that.
Good night.