Comment by lapcat

Comment by lapcat 10 months ago

5 replies

I write my website and blog directly and entirely in HTML using BBEdit. For me, this is just much easier than any other method. I don't have to rely on any external system.

tkgally 10 months ago

Same here. Any text editor would work, of course, but I like BBEdit because of all the customization options. I’ve set up a bunch of shortcuts for frequently used tags; after some practice, I’ve become able to write prose in HTML almost as smoothly as in a word processor.

When I redid my ancient personal site—started in the late 1990s—to make it mobile-friendly a few years ago, BBEdit was also useful when making changes across dozens of files at once.

mikae1 10 months ago

And does your blog have RSS or Atom feed? That's usually where it becomes a little tedious.

  • lapcat 10 months ago

    Of course. It's not a blog without RSS!

    Believe it or not, I also manually edit that in BBEdit.

  • oneeyedpigeon 10 months ago

    You just need a build system in place - generating RSS from your collection of html files isn't difficult.