cataloguing my own hubris here
> With commentary!
8-31-2024 -----
The dark ages... basically me trying to figure out a layout by myself with the meagerest knowledge of HTML and CSS imaginable. Literally nothing was on here just a to-do that thankfully became kind of obsolete!
9-6-2024 -----
Me once trying to figure out flex boxes for... I think the 3rd time? Same list, same- what is it- cornflower blue? that VSCode give you in the dropdown? Yeah at this point I've switched to an external IDE, because for some godforsaken reason, Neocities wouldn't accept my HTML changes from the on-site editor.
Still have zero idea why it did that, either way, don't regret the change!
Also this Music Player is really simple to implement! Reccomend.
9-8-2024 ----->
Okay, at this point I discovered SadGrl/Goblin-Heart's (old) Layout builder and my life was saved from my own stupid, EXTREMELY helpful and easy to figure out, 10/10. I plan on revanping the layout in the future because it entirely relies on in-html styling, which stresses me out, but it's a starting point that I'm very happy with.
The aesthetics of the site started to come together, I had a big reference in my own, incredibly shittily coded Artfight profile, which, their CSS system is already jank (in my opinion) because it's based off of a whitelist but also I understand, so, whatever. The system sucked but the general look of the site was set and themed around the space/ocean teams of this year, I liked it so I kept it!
There isn't much to say about this one, I just found the Undertale font by accident and, frankly, it FUCKS. This font is rad, and free! 8-Bit Operator ily
Now the primary layout is done! I have all my to-be links, the button I made that kind of inspired me to actually go for this project, things start cruising here and I actually sorta figure out what I'm doing.
Again not much to say here, I found a snippet that made a draggable box, which im currently trying to figure out how to do myself for ease of maintenance, this was initially going to be a site update text window, but this page has kind of replaced it entirely SO, it's just the box that holds my Guestbook, which you should sign ;D
I turned everything into a link. This was not my intention.
9-13-2024
Added Friends page.
9-15-2024
Made some adjustments to the CSS/Styling of the site, while not a total revamp the styling is now on a centralized CSS document where I won't have to stress about it anymore. It initially gave me a lot of problems but whatever I did today seems to have worked out just fine.
coding is weird.
9-30-2024
The new layout looks very strange atm, I found a library that makes WinXP windows!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Ultimately its very in beta, implementing it is going to be a BITCH, im just glad not a whole ton has been added to here before I could set it up. I'm doing it entirely by scratch so, it's probably going to be a minute before anything works on it.
Also it was my birthday yesterday! So ig having my divs work is a little bday present to myself.
maybe also that makeship sebastian plushie that i had to call my bank to get but thats more of a future christmas present- whatever.
4:44 PM It looks like this now, i got a lot done! Also had the fear of god put in me because I almost broke it like three times.
10-6-2024
Yeah it looks like this now!
There's genuinely a lot to explain, uh, first off; I've expanded upon the theme, the XP windows were honestly a little naked looking by themselves so I updated my entire vision on the design of the site.
There's now:
- IFrame based pages (hopefully)
- Draggable windows
- Infrastructure for more windows
- A solid idea for how to implement all the pages again!
I'm making more progress more quickly than I thought I would, this is going great and I think I've hit the point where coding is actually kind of fun to deal with, someone send help.
To be continued...