Finalize styling changes to main page

static/main.css

@@ -1,36 +1,38 @@
 * {
   margin: 0rem;
-  padding: 0rem;
 }
 
+/* Magic fix which forces outer most element to full view size for background scaling */
 html {
-  color: #000000;
+  min-height: 100%;
+  min-width: 100%;
+  display: flex;
+  justify-content: center;
+  align-items: column;
 }
 
-/* Magic background CSS lives here */
 body {
   font-family: monospace;
   color: #e4e4e4;
+  padding-top: 2rem;
   font-size: 18px;
-  margin: auto;
-  max-width: 57rem;
+  max-width: 55rem;
   line-height: 1.4;
   -webkit-hyphens: auto;
   -ms-hyphens: auto;
   hyphens: auto;
-  text-align: center;
-  background: linear-gradient(to bottom right, rgba(0,0,0,1) 10%, rgba(65,14,105, 1) 40%, rgba(55,17,95, 1) 50%, rgba(32,14,84, 1) 60%, rgba(0,0,0,1) 90%);
-}
-
-ul {
-  margin-top: 4rem;
+  /* Fancy background CSS lives here */
+  background: linear-gradient(to bottom right, rgba(0,0,0, 1) 2%, rgba(65,15,75, 1) 40%, rgba(65,15,90, 1) 50%, rgba(30,15,80, 1) 60%, rgba(0,0,0, 1) 98%);
 }
 
 li {
-  margin-top: 1rem;
   list-style-type: none;
 }
 
+ul {
+  padding: 0rem;
+}
+
 a {
   color: #4361ee;
   text-decoration: none;
@@ -46,11 +48,13 @@ a:hover {
 }
 
 #site-content {
-  margin: 5rem auto;
-  padding: 1rem;
-  padding-bottom: 2rem;
+  display: flex;
+  justify-content: center;
+  align-items: center;
+  flex-direction: column;
+  padding: 2rem;
   border-radius: 1rem;
-  background: rgba(0,0,0, 0.7);
+  background: rgba(0,0,0, 0.78);
   box-shadow: 1rem 1rem 1rem 1rem rgba(0,0,0, 0.5);
 }
 
@@ -58,9 +62,8 @@ a:hover {
   font-size: 10px;
   color: #e4e4e4;
   text-decoration: none;
-  margin: 1rem;
-  padding-bottom: 14px;
-  border-bottom: #e4e4e4 8px dotted;
+  padding: 1rem;
+  text-align: center;
 }
 
 #ascii-header a {
@@ -74,12 +77,26 @@ a:hover {
 }
 
 #welcome-message {
-  margin: 1rem;
-  padding-bottom: 14px;
+  padding: 1rem;
   font-weight: bold;
+  text-align: center;
+}
+
+.dotted-border {
   border-bottom: #e4e4e4 8px dotted;
+  width: 100%;
 }
 
 .title {
   letter-spacing: -2px;
+  text-align: center;
+}
+
+.blog-post-container {
+  padding: 1rem;
+  padding-top: 2rem;
+}
+
+.blog-post-title {
+  padding-top: 2rem;
 }

templates/base.html

@@ -16,19 +16,18 @@
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+  <div class="dotted-border"></div>
     <main id="main-content">
       <div id="welcome-message">
-        <h1 class="title">
-          Welcome
-        </h1>
-        <p>
-        This blog is made with 💜 and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.getzola.org">Zola!</a>
-        </br>
-        It's currently running on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vultr.com">Vultr</a> for free with 500MB of RAM and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a>
+        <h1 class="title">Welcome</h1>
+        <p>This blog is made with 💜 and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.getzola.org">Zola!</a></p>
+        <p>It's currently running on <a target="_blank" href="https://www.vultr.com">Vultr</a> for free with 500MB of RAM and <a target="_blank" href="https://www.openbsd.org">OpenBSD</a>
         </p>
       </div>
-      <div class="blog-posts">
-        {% block content %} {% endblock %}
+      <div class="dotted-border"></div>
+      <div class="blog-post-container">
+        <h3 class="title">View the latest posts</h3>
+       {% block content %} {% endblock %}
       </div>
     </main>
   </div>

templates/index.html

@@ -5,7 +5,7 @@
   <!-- If you are using pagination, section.pages will be empty.
        You need to use the paginator object -->  
   {% for page in section.pages %}
-  <li><a href="{{ page.permalink | safe }}">{{ page.title }}</a></li>
+  <li class="blog-post-title">{{ page.date }} // <a href="{{ page.permalink | safe }}">{{ page.title }}</a></li>
   {% endfor %}
 </ul>
 {% endblock content %}