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Bringing it All Together
This is the 10th and final post in the building kits-dna series. This post wraps up series, summarising what we've learnt and what's next.
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How to Add a Custom Domain to Your Website
This is the 9th post in the building kits-dna series. Don't want to use GitHub Pages default domain for your site? Here's how to get setup using Squarespace domains.
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How to Add a Favicon to Your Website
This is the 8th post in the building kits-dna series. Ever wondered what the icons on the web browser tab are next to the name of the site you're visiting? They're favicons, short for favourite icons.
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How to Add Simple Analytics to Your Website
This is the 7th post in the building kits-dna series. Google Analytics is popular but does it meet modern privacy standards such as GDPR? Hereās a simple alternative.
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How to Make Your Website Look Good on Mobile
This is the 6th post in the building kits-dna series. This post picks up where we left off with a design gotcha - responsive or mobile first design.
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Build Gotcha's on GitHub Pages
This is the 5th post in the building kits-dna series. After deploying to GitHub Pages my site didnāt work the same as running locally, the links were broken, and there was another problemā¦
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How to Customise the Appearance of Your Website
This is the 4th post in the building kits-dna series. Want to change the appearance of your Jekyll site or the Minima theme? This post contains some ideas of what you can change and some tips on how to do it.
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How to Get Started Building Your Website
This is the 3rd post in the Building kits-dna series. In posts 1 and 2 of the building kits-dna series Iāve focussed primarily on the technology. But how can you āGet Startedā building your own personal website?
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How to Use an iPad or Tablet to Create a Website
This is the 2nd post in the Building kits-dna series. Most development that Iāve experienced still happens locally - on a devs laptop - before their work is pushed to a central source code management tool such as GitHub, GitLab etc. But do we need a laptop?
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Building My Personal Website... kits-dna
Over a series of blog posts Iāll tell the story of how I built this website, aka
kits-dna. My goal with this is to show people who arenāt engineers/developers that it's easy to create a personal website, either as a portfolio, blog or both, and get started with an internet presence outside of social media.
