@freemo How do you do things like submission buttons for stuff like blogs?
It doesn't seem like there is an obvious way to do so in just HTML or CSS.
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@LWFlouisa Here you go, a form that works with pure html: https://www.w3schools.com/Html/tryit.asp?filename=tryhtml_form_mail
@freemo Oh I meant more like what places like blogger, livejournal, or wordpress do.
When I blog, I pretty much have to write it in Markdown, and then convert it to HTML.
Although these days, I use nano and write it as a .txt file, which then convert to html.
@freemo When I look at w3schools, it doesn't seem obvious whether they have a tutorial for that purpose.
@LWFlouisa Are you trying to actually write blogging server? For that you need to get a bit more technical. Might want to look into jeckyl or middleman
@freemo Yea just a server for myself. Localhost. Know how to port forward through local tunnel. Or IPFS.
@LWFlouisa If you want it to be served up as a web page your best best is likely jeckyl. Really easy to use, generates static html so you can put it anywhere, and you write your posts in markdown.
Isnt going to give you a nice form like you want, but still is a great workflow (i do something similar for my blog).
@freemo Yea I was consider Jeckyll actually.
My .txt to .html is kind of a work around using offline nano. But Jeckyll is still great.
@freemo Kind of like how, while one can't get ruby scripts to work directly server side, one can write a ruby script that writes the output of a ruby script to an html page.
@LWFlouisa If you dont need a server side app then generating it locally has many advantages. for one it is much much faster to load. For another you dont need an expensive server running a database
@freemo Yea I came to the same conclusion as well. I really like generating things locally when I can.
@freemo In fact, websites like Wattpad, Sweek, Tablo, and places like that are more the exception than the rule.
@freemo My jeckyll description isn't updating for some reason.
@freemo Not being able to run Beaker Browser on Trisquel 7 doesn't seem very freedom respecting to me.
If I own an a computer, I should be able to install whatever I want.
@freemo You know how before you post a blog post on something like word press, you write a blog post inside a word processor, then said post is posted onto the server?