Shouldn't the opposite
of Rich Text be Poor Text?
— Plain Text
I designed this website in plain text, and I wrote the code by hand. In a text editor. Old school.
That's how it's done. Right?
Actually, no.
I was sitting in the doctor's office, waiting to have my annual physical, and of course the doctor was running late.
I was bored, so I opened the notes app on my phone and started sketching out the layout for this website. Well, typing. Not sketching.
When I got home, I started writing the code.
For the record, I suck at writing code. A web designer could have whipped up this site in an hour. Oh, who am I kidding? Make that ten minutes. It's all just text. I'm not going to admit how long it took me, but there was a lot of cursing.
It was a fun project though.
I wanted the design to be as minimal as possible, which was a challenge because there needs to be site navigation and novel-page navigation, and there's some non-novel stuff. And I wanted the site to be flexible, because eventually I'm going to post bonus material from the novel, including a bunch of deleted scenes.
This website is not a theme, and it does not run on Wordpress or any other content management system.
Basically, I made a blank page to use as a template. Then, I made a really fugly script that takes a text document from my novel and inserts the title, epigraph, text and page numbers into my template.
I do not recommend doing this.
Whoa, no.
But it works!
That's how every page on this website was built.
A content management system would make this so much easier, but I wanted to do it this way... because I could.
And, y'know what? I enjoy being able to say, "I made this."