[Project] KitePad
What is KitePad?
It is a minimalist blogging platform designed for quick content creation and sharing.
Dev
The project started with an initial commit and a very basic PHP/HTML setup, along with a minimal README. Over several iterations, I refined error handling, adjusted the basic “mold” of the app, and updated the README to better communicate that this is a minimalist platform for quick text/code sharing. These early commits created a small but flexible foundation that allowed the more opinionated KitePad design to emerge in early 2026.
I refactored styling by extracting inline styles into a dedicated style.css and introducing a dark theme with a redesigned, more cohesive UI. To reinforce a flat visual identity, I set border‑radius to zero for card and button elements. On the backend side, I migrated database operations from mysqli to PDO and centralized the PostgreSQL connection in a new db.php file, laying the groundwork for consistent error handling and configuration management.