I would like to start a personal blog. I think Substack is a good option, but I would like more control over styling (potentially custom components) and want to host the blog on my own website.
I wanted to ask what the writing and hosting process is like for people who have a personal website and blog—do you just write markdown and then use a renderer?
I would like a kind of wysiwyg editor to see exactly how the content will appear once loaded. The issue with writing in a separate editor is that the line breaks, line lengths, font, etc. never appear how they will actually look. Thanks!
I write new posts in Sublime Text as Markdown (I also use my blog to archive Mastodon posts which go in a different folder than my blog posts) and then it does its thing and generates an HTML site which I git push to my server. I use a plugin to integrate comments from my Mastodon account.
It doesn't have a wysiwyg editor per se but it does have a local server with hot loading so I can see how it would look.
You will have wysiwyg when you develop locally.
Here's an overview over some tools: http://staticgen.com/
You still need to write your content as Markdown or something else, right? I feel the editors of Substack give some nice features like shortcuts for bold, italics. What do you do about that?
Most editors have Markdown preview. There's also products like Ghost which are pretty good