If for some reason you had seen this site before the publication of this post, you'd notice that it looks quite different! Over the past couple of weeks I've been working on migrating everything to Hugo, and along the way I decided to redesign the site to make it look less like its original muse (which I referenced heavily in the initial development stage).

One of the biggest problems with my original website was that it was very cumbersome to update. Essentially, I had designed it as one single HTML page, which had a navigation bar allowing the user to show only particular sections of the site (e.g., writing, presentations, etc.). This meant that if I wanted to add new content, I needed to go to the spot in the HTML file where that content belonged, and add it accordingly. You can imagine how messy this would become, especially since I planned on updating the site regularly with content. I needed a far more modular approach. The solution I found was to use Hugo to structure the site -- an idea I got from consequently.org, the beautiful website of Greg Restall, a former lecturer of mine at university.

I'm writing this sitting on my bed, reluctant to leave my surprisingly well-insulated room for some refreshment in the kitchen. It's about 33°C outside, though the temperature is predicted to reach over forty. I live in a (very) old terrace house in inner city Melbourne, which is classically double bricked and so provides some respite from the weather. However, the house is so old that the principal amenities are contained in separate units external to the actual house. That is, the kitchen and shower and toilet are all outside. Not very common, I don't think, at least not in this part of town.