Small Web September Check-In 1: Links!
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smallwebWe’ve reached the first check-in point for Small Web September! How is everyone doing so far? Whether you’re just getting warmed up or are already ticking off goals (or maybe you just found this and want to join – welcome!), come and share your progress in the comments of this check-in.
The theme of this week’s check-in is links! Earlier this year, I came across Coy (osteophage)’s link compilation in praise of links, which led me down a rabbit hole of reading various essays about the importance of hyperlinking and being a good steward of the web. This includes not making your own site into an effective dead end, but sending people on to interesting destinations via links that you’ve included there.
I’ve always been a lover of curating cool webpages and sites, but it struck me that I wasn’t actually doing much of this on my own little website – now, it’s a personal fanworks archive, so you could argue that linking out to random pages is a bit out of step with the purpose of it. However, it broadened my thinking about where I could start adding more links: from archiving rec lists to linking out to gifts that other fans had made for me over the years.
So, the discussion starter for this check-in is: how do you link, and to what? Do you have a link hub or set of interesting finds? Would you like to do more with links?
As a bonus: share some of your favourite interesting links (this can be anything from thought-provoking essays to just cool stuff! They don't need to be explicitly small-web-themed, although that's great too).
And of course, let us know how your Small Web September project(s) is/are going!
As a reminder, this is the first of four ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on them all or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
For the previous kick-off/goals post, check out: Small Web September: Kick-Off & Goals!
The theme of this week’s check-in is links! Earlier this year, I came across Coy (
osteophage)’s link compilation in praise of links, which led me down a rabbit hole of reading various essays about the importance of hyperlinking and being a good steward of the web. This includes not making your own site into an effective dead end, but sending people on to interesting destinations via links that you’ve included there. I’ve always been a lover of curating cool webpages and sites, but it struck me that I wasn’t actually doing much of this on my own little website – now, it’s a personal fanworks archive, so you could argue that linking out to random pages is a bit out of step with the purpose of it. However, it broadened my thinking about where I could start adding more links: from archiving rec lists to linking out to gifts that other fans had made for me over the years.
So, the discussion starter for this check-in is: how do you link, and to what? Do you have a link hub or set of interesting finds? Would you like to do more with links?
As a bonus: share some of your favourite interesting links (this can be anything from thought-provoking essays to just cool stuff! They don't need to be explicitly small-web-themed, although that's great too).
And of course, let us know how your Small Web September project(s) is/are going!
As a reminder, this is the first of four ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates of these posts over on the event intro. There’s no cut-off point for commenting on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on them all or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
For the previous kick-off/goals post, check out: Small Web September: Kick-Off & Goals!
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Date: 2025-09-12 09:22 pm (UTC)Although I'm undecided as of yet whether to make it paginated or have it just be one giant scroll down, because I have a lot of screenshots, and I mean A Lot, so it'll make the page GIGANTIC. But then also I'd have to figure out where to split the pages up and whatnot, so I don't know yet! I'm also a bit unsure about the mix of portrait and landscape screenshots, but I think it looks good enough for now - next step is to decide whether to host all the screenshots on neocities or on my imgbox account, which might be better from a not needing to make them smaller perspective. Much to think about!
For linking out, I have planned sections in my shrine pages to share links to fics, art and other related sites, and I have a credits page as well where I keep a list of all the code credits I'm using, but this post has made me want to make a single separate page full of links as well! I have a lot of bookmarks of reference things for photoshop, gifmaking, pose references, and coding stuff I've collected, but then I'm also super into indie makeup, perfume and other things (sex toys lol), so it might be fun to link out to all of those as well. I'm going to go and plunder these comments for ideas and inspiration now hehe.
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Date: 2025-09-13 11:52 am (UTC)A code credits page is a good idea! That's sort of why I made the indie web and fic archive resources list on my DW, so that I could reference some of the tutorials and resources I used to code specific features, like the vertically scrollable div on my homepage. It's nice to be able to grab a link if someone asks you "Hey, how did you do..." (And also to have the source just in case one needs a refresher xD)