It is likely that I am writing this long before it will actually be available to read on the web. However, by the time it goes online, it will have been published alongside several backdated articles imported from other website I've used to blog over the years. And so, despite technically being my first post written for the site, it will be thrown into a stew of various other posts that will make it appear as though the site has been cooking for some time!
How long it will take to get it online, I do not know. I need to learn HTML, Markdown, and CSS before I can build a website I can pass off as my own. Fortunately, there are many easy-to-use tools all over the internet and I already have some familiarity with some of the necessary skills.
I'm also determined to get the ball rolling before I'm actually satisfied with a final product. If I decide I cannot launch the website until it is to my satisfaction, then it will never be launched. As soon as I have a working template that doesn't look very obviously ripped straight from Eleventy LibDoc -- which is what I did -- then I will immediately move on to the next step, which is to get a machine running the site 24/7.
That means starting with CSS and server hosting. I'm hoping to use the klovysmusic.com domain, which would lead visitors to my discography and blog. The site would be called Music & Musings and clicking on the blog would lead to the klovysmusic.com/musings domain. Fingers crossed that whenever you happen to read this, those links are live! Or not. Who knows, I might think of something better.
That future can wait for sensible layouts, navigation, tags, and the million styling tweaks I will undoubtedly make. After all, whatever state the website will be in when it launches, it will not be its final form. So what does it matter if that temporary form is great, good, or even barely passable? As logn as it has form, that will be something.
And it's not like anyone is reading anyway!