New Article Home

We've got a new article home, originally when I started this article it was using pure HTML, CSS and a tad of JavaScript to provide you a whole overview of what where updating for VEX.blue & the various topics I'd wanted to put out into the world.

Since then I worked on learning React JS an amazing way of developing front-ends for websites but still haven't learnt enough about back-end development yet. This has made me search for a better way for me to host my Articles as originally I was writing a tone of code to showcase my articles and it was getting complicated every time I worked on a new one.

I knew I could build my whole site through Wordpress and have Fediverse Support but with recent issues that WP has had I thought it was best to stay away from it. My other reasons for staying away from Wordpress is simply it feels very old and often has huge paywalls for me to get into it, even if I self host. Want a theme, build it from scratch (what is complex for WP) or pay for a theme and it break the bank.

Instead I decided upon an up and coming blogging software called Ghost it's currently still developing ActivityPub support and is in BETA for those few that have access to it (I'm sadly not one of those people... yet). As I was looking across the software I was learning more and more things that I can do with it. Such as;

• Paid Subscriptions
• Embedding Code (such as Fediverse & Bluesky Posts)
• A paid 'barrier' simply a line that means you have to pay a subscription to see the rest of an article (not my thing but fair enough)
• Comments (for free and paid members)

These obviously aren't revolutionary features for a blogging / article websites but are a cool add on when I haven't been able to even let alone create an account or even make for a way that I can create Articles on the fly unlike this new system.

So for the future it looks like if I want to have quicker released articles, I will most likely be using Ghost for the future of my articles part of my website. Obviously I would love to cut down on this cost in the future and if I code it myself not only could it do that but I could have further control over how everything is laid out again but for the moment this will have to do.