I've started off making a very basic page of what my website is about and another second page to start off for so far. I don’t want to keep going without being able to remember my start points so I'll be using this page to track my progress from a basic level to a (hopefully) advanced one.
Day 1 was the start of it all. I made the base of the website and played around with text and applied what I learnt from W3 school. I basically blurted out my thoughts with 0 regard and did whatever.
I tried a new template, looked at videos on making neocities and figured out how to make the links on the navigation work. Another thing I learnt was how to order my files. Finally some organisation.
Now take a look at my new index page!
I've been focusing on CSS. I wanted to play around with colour even if it wasn't pretty.
I did some colour swatching for my hobbies page and changing the sizing of images as well as adding alt text.
I took some inspiration from other websites and found a really cute cursor. I'm still looking for an effect I like...
Major success for me as I finally found out how to create a scroll bar! It actually wasn't hard so I feel a bit silly now lol ♥
Shout out to W3 for the scrollbar explanation!!
It might take me some time but I really like when other websites have links that aren't in a list but their own little boxes so I'll be super excited when I figure that out. But honestly, I thought I would get tired of this by now so I'm quite happy I haven't.
My webpages are still really ugly though haha
Centered my content in the Hobbies page, created containers and a header.
I wanted to make it look like my homepage but without using SadGrl's template so I've been learning how to create the same format through trial and error as well as using W3. I still use the template to see the where I've gone wrong though. For example, I put the cursor code into the style section and I could NOT figure why it wasn't working until I looked at that other code and realised what I was doing.
I've learnt quite a bit so far but I've still got a while to go. There's a few things I've seen on other people's websites that look really cool and I seriously want.
The chatbox feature is really cool and having buttons instead of links to navigate is something else I really want to figure out.
Figured out how to do the button style links in the directory but how do I make it cute T-T - still the overall formatting is done
We know have lovely rounded links in blue WITH a gap evenly space
Formatting content into boxes manually is not for the weak or the stupid. I realised wayyy too late that if I didn't set a specific height it would just fit the container -_-
I actually did a lot today: got rid of my old index first, and put in a header, footer, and a right sidebar. Later I also took inspiration (not code) from another website and I made a "floating" box with half the corners rounded.
A lot of other websites I've seen hosted by neocities tend to be more interactive and less static. Sometimes there are polls or chats and there's a lot more movement which is cool. Lots of gifs but also cursor effects or glittery backgrounds, just movement. I saw some with a moving title page or ones where the letters pop up one at a time. Another one had moving text under the header and even a "cd player" that played music.
There is so much I want to tryyy!!
Aesthetic-wise I want to lean into the kawaii colour scheme since I keep getting drawn into those colours and websites. OR maybe have it like a console shape.
Made my main page pop more by adding box shadows.
Updating my goals page and added a colour gradient there and later, in the header of my homepage.
I should have done a before and after...
In other news I made 2 template files and put in a chatbox to the homepage.
Made two new pages: a proper hobbies list and a proper progress tracker. Minor aesthetic choices made with gradients and a new font.
I used margin left with a negative px to format my details block so that it lines up with the rest of the list. There is probably an easier way to do that...I don't know what it is though.
Favicon, emoji and poll added. Couldn't add a profile picture - it was so ugly I had to delete it. Couldn't add the emoji I wanted either.
Poll crashed, tried a new one and it was ugly and pollcode.com no longer works.
Couldn't add calendar either which was really frustrating.
Updated my error page but it doesn't actually work?
Added moving text to header and buttons. Did a moving page title but it actually made me nauseous to look at so it's on the trial page.
Removed the buttons because I hated the way they look then I added a status update using petrapixel's widget for statuscafe and imood.
Added (1) cute button back.
Taking a day off. What else should I add to my website? Or what else will make it better?
Nevermind
I went nuts on the layout and I actually did make a before and after!
A special shout out to the 7 or so other variations that didn't make the cut and somehow looked even worse
I'm in a special stage of web development where I just want to use every single thing that I have recently learnt and it doesn't look great.
Perhaps one day it will improve - I have a whole separate file which is just index pre-crazy changes
Took most of the day off then I looked at other websites, realised my main section SUCKED and that's why it looks bad and updated my hobbies list.
I've also been working on adding quizzes from "https://www.dragonflycave.com/free-quiz-scripts/#vote"
I keep losing this code?? I wrote it as a comment in another folder and I can't find it anymoreeee.
Added a widgets page and also a games page for funsies. Also created wip folder to organise.
Finished my first quiz - take a look at that! This is basically my updates page - time to rename?
Used Sadgrl's template builder to get moving gif wallpaper for my games page which is super cool.
Random sidenote: why do so many neocities have that one japanese calendar? Can you all read japanese or is it just the vibe? Like what's going on here? It's either that or like 2 other templates I've seen floating around. I want a calendar too.
Anyway, I'm made a image border with the help of solaria.neocities.org/guides and reddit but ended up getting my ip address blocked by web sudoku for accidental querying too often.
No updates
I have come to the astounding realisation that I absolutely despise my index page.
I kept looking at everyone else's page and I really wanted what they had but it's just not me.
There's so much going on all of the time that it's really ugly.
There's still some elements I like but tbh I hate most of it.
It's been scrapped and my save point has been used in it's stead. In addition to that change, I've also made another template where it's one long page with 3 columns, a break and a column because I really like nyaa's neocities page. I used sadgrl's template builder to get a similar layout but obviously I'm not going to copy the actual look or the content. She is very clear not to copy her code or be too similar and the similarities stop with the general layout. Sugar fantasies has a layout I'd also like to try out where it's one column on the left and then two main sections on top of each other. I'm not sure how so I'll probably go check w3schools again because they had a cool tutorial of how to do 3 columns side by side. Pretty cool to be able to do the same thing in so many different ways.
In other news, I'm looking for a word and it's not coming to mind.
It's the hovering popup when you hover over an unknown term on wikipedia. Not a tooltip but like a whole box of text.
I don't actually have an ideas about what to do with my website right now and I've been feeling pressure to update daily but no one's holding me at gunpoint. There's still a lot of things I want to try but I'm incredibly aware that they will take a while to accomplish and even if I do them I won't know where to slot them into my website. Instead I'm just going to try w3school's tutorials and learn new things that way. I did a few way before neocities but it was really boring and I gave up. Now hopefully it'll be less boring because I have motivation: making my website fun and functional. I've gotten up to comments today.