After going through the Astro blog tutorial and adding my own css to it, I was quite satisfied with how it came out. However, there were a few things I wanted to incorporate with further help from the Astro docs and other resources. I will be adding to this as I progress.

I’ve been around the block trying to figure out how I would like to code and maintain a blog. Back in 2020, I was using Chronica to make updates about my networking hub. This year, since I opened a fansite I thought to try CuteNews after seeing it on someone else’s site. Not my best idea to just go directly to the website and install it without googling at all (plus using such an old script in the first place). Turns out there was a vulnerability discovered in it years ago (which, funnily enough, was only patched mere weeks after I installed the script this year). After finding that out I quickly tried Zonelots (a more feature-filled version of Zonelets) which ended up not being my cup of tea and decided to just go to Bearblog. I was still unhappy with the customization options (I’m currently using it as an iframe on my site) so I’ve been trying many other options in the background for months. The main things I was looking for in order (but could try to do myself if necessary) were post permalinks, an archive, rss, navigation between entries and tags. Here’s the list of stuff I tried (including the aforementioned):