I’d been wanting to build a blog for myself for a long time, somewhere I could jot down the wild ideas in my head and share interesting things with others. That thought first came to me back in 2018, but I was still in college then, always finding excuses to delay it. One reason or another kept piling up, and by the time I graduated, the blog was still just an unfinished plan.
Life has to have a little ambition, or what’s the difference between that and being a salted fish? I wanted to be a different kind of salted fish, so the idea I had almost forgotten started floating back to the surface.
I’ve never thought of myself as some especially outstanding person. If I had to name one strength, it would probably be stubbornness. Once I made up my mind to build a blog of my own, I wanted it to be the best I could make it—or at least something that felt distinctive to me. I looked through a lot of templates and learned about several common blogging systems, including z-blog, WordPress, Hexo, and Typecho.
I’m only a beginner who knows a bit of front-end work. I don’t really understand security, SEO, or all that stuff. My only real requirement for the blog was simple: it had to look good. Yes, that’s how plain and a little unreasonable it was.
The blog I built this time uses Typecho, and I want to thank Eltrac for the template. It saved me, at least, from getting lost in the endless pile of blog themes as someone who can never make a decision.
In short, the first version of Luoqing’s blog was successfully built on 2019-10-1.
After that, I mostly stopped paying attention to it. In between, I spent time tinkering with mini programs, official accounts, and other things, so the blog slowly faded into the background again.
That changed recently. While browsing online, I came across a few very clean blog templates. Looking back, I realized that my earlier obsession with making everything look flashy had probably caused me to lose sight of why I wanted a blog in the first place.
So I spent a few days putting together a new one, which is the site you’re looking at now. This template is much simpler. The various sections—albums, short posts, About, and other standalone pages—were all built little by little by hand. Of course, I also borrowed ideas from a lot of open-source Typecho plugins along the way. At the very least, the whole thing now looks fairly presentable, hehe~
I didn’t throw away the old blog either. I redeployed it on another server.