Smallweb Chatter Post

[kalloway]

Heya, smallweb!

This is an open post to talk about what you're working on, what you'd like to show off, cool resources, things that maybe aren't working so well, etc.

Also please check out previous posts to see what people are up to or if you might be able to help someone out.

Comments

[starfleetbrat]

I haven't done a lot with my neocities site lately, mostly just fiddly little things like cleaning some code up or adding some images. I have a lot of ideas for things I want to add to my site, just lacking the brain space to do it I guess lol

I did swap out my guestbook though. Found out atabook is going to be adding ads (and a premium service to remove them) at some point in the near future (they have started testing it). Not that I am opposed to paying for a service I am using. But I guess I feel like if I'm going to be spending money just to not see ads on my guestbook/site, that money could instead go towards proper hosting that has a database I can use for things like a guestbook.

random resources:

"shows how you can protect a webpage from visitors using a password that can't be found inside the source code on Neocities"
https://xobyte.org/demos/protected/

"IndieSeas is a search engine made exclusively for the indieweb. It scrapes based on 88x31 buttons, while respecting privacy and robots.txt policies."
https://indieseas.net - has a random button at the bottom too

css tutorials and code by topic:
https://moderncss.dev/topics/

[thepasteldyke]

I've been thinking about password protection on neocities recently, thank you for the link!

How/where are you going to host your guestbook going forward?

[starfleetbrat]

for now I am using ayano's comment widget - I was using it before atabook but switched because it relies on google forms and sheets, and I wasn't a fan of that, but it does the job really well otherwise (it only works on older free neocities accounts tho, newer neocities accounts need supporter status due to the content security policy)
https://virtualobserver.moe/ayano/comment-widget

[aikoto]

Thanks for the Indie Web link!
I was aware of multiple search engines that prioritize smaller and older websites, but I really love how that one is focused on indieweb since these sites tend to be currently active. I have had fun looking thru it!