#+TITLE: 09-08-2025: Website Changes
#+OPTIONS: num:nil toc:nil
#+DATE: <2025-08-09 Sat>
#+FILETAGS: :emacs:website:
#+COMMENTS: t
#+SLUG: spending-all-day-on-this-website

* What was worked on

I saw a few websites that used marginal notes on the right side of the screen like [[https://ogbe.net/blog/emacs_org_static_site][this one]], so I decided to try and implement this feature in this wesbite. In my mind I thought of using an external pre-configured CSS that I can just insert and ta-da it would work.

How wrong I was.

See, this website is published with ~org-publish~, meaning the org files that are written are converted to HTML through a transcoder. And as I already had a ~org.css~[fn:1] stylesheet which was primarily used for syntax highlighting, it caused some layout and formatting issue when I tried to use something like ~tufte.css~[fn:2]. Anyways, long story short, the main thing I worked on today was styling this website, and ensuring certain macros worked:

#+BEGIN_SRC emacs-lisp

  (setq org-export-global-macros
        (append
         '(("sidenote"
            . "@@html:<label for=\"sn$1\" class=\"margin-toggle sidenote-number\"></label><input type=\"checkbox\" id=\"sn$1\" class=\"margin-toggle\"/><span class=\"sidenote\">$2</span>@@")
  	 ("epigraph"  . "@@html:<div class=\"epigraph\"><blockquote>$1<footer>$2</footer></blockquote></div>@@")
  	 ("epigraph_single"  . "@@html:<div class=\"epigraph\"><blockquote>$1</blockquote></div>@@")
           ("epigraph3" . "@@html:<div class=\"epigraph\"><blockquote>$1<footer>$2, <cite>$3</cite></footer></blockquote></div>@@")
           ("kbd"       . "@@html:<kbd>$1</kbd>@@@@latex:\\texttt{$1}@@")
  	 ("margimg"
  	  . "@@html:<aside class=\"marginnote\"><figure class=\"mn-fig\"><img src=\"$1\" alt=\"$2\" class=\"mn-img\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\"/>$3</figure></aside>@@")
  	 
  	 org-export-global-macros)))

#+END_SRC

This worked quite nicely, and I made sure to make these changes accessible on smaller devices. Anyways, I quite like this style of posting. Nothing formal nor technical, just a bunch of rambling on about random things.

Oh, and also there's a darkmode theme switch now for you night owls.

[fn:1] See: https://gongzhitaao.org/orgcss/
[fn:2] See: https://edwardtufte.github.io/tufte-css/
