Preface#
Those who have dabbled in blogging should know about the "Ten-Year Covenant". I learned about it several years ago and even applied for it but was rejected (because my blog hadn't published at least 10 articles).
How I discovered it#
When I had nothing to do at work, I would often browse through Ten-Year Covenant to see other people's blogs. I would open multiple blogs at once and carefully browse through the ones I found interesting.
Often, the blogs with attractive themes would catch my eye. Combined with their shared daily life and photos, I couldn't help but have the desire to create my own blog, like this blog Jack's Space.
The first impression upon entering was very good and concise. At that moment, I had the idea of building my own blog. After studying it carefully, I found that it was using the Blocksy theme with WordPrss. Through the author's article How a Novice Builds a Blog, I realized that it was different from the original version. It seemed that the author had made modifications and beautifications. Since personal beautification involves many things, it would be difficult for me to replicate it exactly. At this point, my idea of building a blog disappeared.
While browsing, I discovered the author's second blog VeryJack, which is based on xLog but with a custom domain name. This was when I started to learn about xLog and successfully registered my own blockchain blog through the tutorial Five Minutes to Own a Decentralized Blog on Blockchain and IPFS.
What I did after discovering it#
Firstly, I thought the social media platforms displayed under personal information were great, so I started to research how to configure them.
Settings - Site Settings - Social Platforms
Then, I set up custom CSS (actually, I inspected the elements to steal the styles).
@import url("https://font.sec.miui.com/font/css?family=MiSans:400,500:Chinese_Simplify,Latin&display=swap");
@font-face {
font-family: "MiSans", sans-serif;
font-weight: normal;
font-style: normal;
}
*:not([class*="icon"]):not(i) {
font-family: "MiSans" !important;
}
.xlog-page-index, .xlog-page-post {
font-family: "MiSans", sans-serif;
}
:root {
--theme-color: #0084ff !important;
--theme-color-dark: #0084ff !important;
--banner-bg-color: #fff;
}
html.dark {
--banner-bg-color: #000;
}
.xlog-header {
border: none;
}
I also familiarized myself with the backend settings.
At this point, my xLog is basically set up.
It's almost time to finish work, so I'll publish it first without setting a cover image.
In the future, I'll need to spend time updating my blog. I need to persevere! Let's do our best~ Iron Iron