A good friend warned me that while coding this website, I would have to encounter javascript. I called his bluff. It was a bad call.
The sudden lull in the updates of this site isn't out of procrastination. It was the time when school picked up and I had to prepare for midterms. On top of that, I wanted to figure out how to tackle the art page. There were some options. One, replicate the way my art on carrd would be presented. That would take a lot of time learning and picking up modals and javascript. Two, just hyperlink the art tab to the carrd or cara. But that just defeats the purpose of coding this whole site wouldnt it? Or three, present the art by coding one page per art. That would just be tedious and repetitive, but the easiest.
Look, I wanted a challenge,,,
The plan was simple. The art page would be this collection of drawings all laid out. When someone clicks on it, a modal would pop-out showing the art and its details. I drew up some quick function that I learned from a single youtube video and managed to get one modal to pop out when clicking an image. Then I added two images and I didn't seem to get it working. So it stopped there. Then came a friend of mine who drew up a whole function and that kept the ball rolling. (Shoutout to PF, for the code! Now I will never come out of the hole!)
Eight sets of modals later and there we go! A beta version of the art page. Its still a test to see if everything works. So far there are only eight artworks posted. Better start small! There tends to be some changes when I import code from notepad++ to neocities. So before going on a large scale update, I'd rather put everything piece-by-piece. It makes working on mistakes faster and allows me to learn from them. Trial and error! Here's the link to try it out!
If anything is still broken, please do let me know! If none, then I'll be able to add more soon :>
So. You may have noticed...
Thats a lot of features and photos and graphics. I've been bitten by the bug of analog futurism that I think small gifs of it would make this place look cool. Surprisingly, its a struggle trying to get a hold of imgs and sizinng them properly. I've still got a lot to go before I can call this website done.
There's a new coat of paint though! Decided to stop fiddling around without a color pallette and just find one and use it. The colors are less dead now! Maybe incoherent? Yea... But its a good place to start.
Its safe to say however that neocities has taken over my life. Can't say how this will fit in the ecosystem of social media apps that I've built along the years. For such a creative exercise, I've been having so much fun having this little corner of the net. I can't wait to finally show this off to everyone (unless, they found this first!)
Here's a bunch of cool things I've added to wrap this journal up.
Thats all for now. See you next journal!
Hey! I've been doing some designing here and there. For once, the bulletin board looks like an actual board, and the journal entries look like stationaries (I hope.)
The aesthetic that I want to go with this website is some sort of an office desk. You've got your stationaries, you've got your folders, you've got a bulletin board. Heck, I might even add a calendar and a clock. That's just some of what I've been working on. The navbar on the top is supposed to resemble the tabs of a folder, y'know.
But not all is mired in bureaucratic aesthetic. I want to add buttons and pins soon. That's the hallmark of a site like this! I've been looking through the sites that others made, and it screams personality and individual expression. Its far more than what the usual social media site can give you. Internet users yearn for the sweet and colorful eye-popping customization.
I'll possibly add all those cool buttons to a third column on the right one day. (For anyone looking at this in the future, the home page when I wrote this has two columns.) For now, my focus is on getting the website to look decent on mobile. If I want this site to be useful on the go, then I'd have to take the plunge with the media queries and mobile layouts... I'm not really looking forward to that. But after that hump, then and only then can I add the fun stuff! (And then make it responsive again >.>), and then finally release this website to the wild (basically posting the link to my bluesky account). I haven't gone this deep into HTML and CSS in a while, but that's a story for another day! Till then, see ya!
There we go, some items crossed out from the to-do list.
I've added two new pages to this site, the about page and the journal page The first one contains a short about page that I've lifted from my carrd. Hopefully I'll be able to expand on this more, but also would keep this short and sweet. I'd rather not end up oversharing by accident! The second one contains a list of the journals I'll write for this website. It's a good way to keep the journals in another page, and leave the two latest journal entries in the home page.
Oh yeah, if you look at the homepage, you'll see a bulletin board. It's my way of adding little decorations for this website. I've always believed in the idea that to live in the present, you gotta celebrate the holidays that come with it. Not only that, but to keep a good eye on current events. It helps us to remember that time is passing, and to prevent the months from merging together.
Well, that's it from me right now. I'll try to keep constantly updating this site and make it look better. Hopefully, I can get on to the bare-bones-ness of this site.
Its crazy but it took me a full nights rest to realize I can build my website in notepad++ locally
to test it out before putting it here for the rest to see. That will be the flow as I go on with this website.
I might take the aesthetics and concept to the drawing board first before going completely into working on
this place. But I am really excited for this place. May just work on the plans on my sick day tomorrow.
Sup! If you stumbled across this page, its because I gave the website link to either my server, or my Guild Wars 2 guild's server. In this case, welcome! But if you're here and youre not from those uhh... how did you find me and whats your favorite math equation?????? I've been planning to add things in this webpage, and in its extremely early infancy you may experience drastic changes when you refresh.
Speaking of plans, thats what it says on the left box. Its not an exhaustive list! I might add or delete some as time goes on. The idea though is that
for the longest time, I've been trying to make a site with the Journal functionality of deviantArt, with the ability to post art, and a place where
I can also ramble about what I've been doing with my life in a non-microblog way. Will this replace my carrd? I'm not so sure. You can't fix what isn't broken
But for now, enjoy the (somewhat steady) stream of updates!
Oh by the way, this site isn't mobile friendly! Currently working on it :D