@hazardwarning Heh! Feel free to ask as many questions as you like. However I believe creating a GitHub Pages blog [pages.github.com] was massively streamlined after I created mine, to make it more accessible for those disinclined to mess about or simply without the time.
I forked the https://github.com/poole/hyde [github.com] repo (and only incidentally messed about with the CSS.) I've added stuff to it since forking, but the basics are still there and logically upgradeable.
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