HI HELLO, and happy new year, everyone!! ^ o^)/ I'm finally taking the plunge to set up my miniblog/Status Cafe replacement using a template I found through one of my mutuals!! I'm nervous since I haven't done any serious coding in a while, but EXCITED to finally get my hands on it and learn!! :D
Here's the template (under "Blog Style Templates" in both Pastille and Periwinkle) for the curious just in case it might help anyone!! I missed Status Cafe a lot, but when I started running into this weird JavaScript bug there, I made the hard decision to let it go. Found this template and it gave me renewed hope!! ; u;
Good luck on any of the project you pursue this year!! ❤️
FUNK YEAH, you're so welcome!!! :D Cheering for you!! ❤️ Definitely recommend checking out Asuraid's for lovely inspo (since that's how I found out about the template)!!
saying hello!!!!! i've been too locked into color tcg updating on my site to do much LOOL, i did find someone who has a resource collection with credits of the shiny imvu buttons + general shiny buttons which is awesome
I now have an automatic light/dark mode and a link to an index on every page. I've been slowly chipping away at my to-do list for the site.
I came across a link to this site that's archiving stuff from dead ~mid-2000s personal sites. A lot of it is old Photoshop resources, but there's posts like this one that have button bases among other things.
Lets see, I have 3 shrines I'm working on. Two of which just need a edit and the third the coding and images are done, now I just need to write the content. I'm also still plugging away at Snowflake Challenge.
I'm new and just poking around but actively thinking about the sites I want to make (mostly personal). I think I might want to take HTML more seriously (my knowledge is so ooold) but realized that I don't know much about accessibility for HTML smallweb. I think I need to give myself a short bootcamp because I looove those complicated sites that have buttons at the top where it just makes everything easier for people that need it. I just have 0 idea how to do it.
I just switched to a different SSG because what I was using before was getting unwieldy and demotivating. My goal right now is to focus on actually putting stuff on the site. I always end up distracted by technical things or too perfectionistic to put anything I make on there.
I just saw someone mention using Frogtab for letting people send them messages through their website. Frogtab's creator has a guide for using it that way on a Bear blog. No clue if Neocities or other static hosts support it, but maybe it's useful to have.
the frogtab thing should work on neocities if you have an account created prior to jan 2024, or if you have premium. But if you have a newer free account it may not work because of the new content security policy. someone made a site about what is blocked and what isn't here: https://content-security-policy.neocities.org
what SSG did you switch to? I've been using 11ty and for most things its fine, but I'm struggling a little with a few things - like it wants me to use sitewide tags when I want to keep tags specific to certain sections of my site and I can't seem to figure out how. just wondering if you found something easier I guess lol
Thank you for the link! I've heard about the new content security policy but I didn't know exactly what that meant. The "other websites in an iframe aren't subject to the security policy" thing looks interesting. Frogtab does seem to generate a minimalistic page on its own domain with your message box. Not sure if that's a viable workaround.
I'm using Zola! I haven't tried out its categorization system myself yet. Taxonomies is the closest I know Zola has to tagging built-in. It also seems to be site-wide as far as I can tell. Since a "tags" taxonomy seems to be a common solution for tagging, you could probably make a taxonomy per section. The other option I can see is putting tags in the [extra] data for each page and then making the section index pages group by tag or something.
Sorry for jumping in! For 11ty, probably the easiest way to do tags only for certain sections is to have separate 11ty blogs for each section. If you want to stick to a single 11ty blog, you can define tags unique to each section and then have separate tag lists for each section (you can do this using the Collections API, but this involves knowing a little javascript).
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I’ve been doing a CSS rewrite of my whole site, now that I have more knowledge under my belt. (I’m going for a Wikipedia-like style.) I’ve also been learning more on how to make the site more accessible and applying it, such as by using aria-labelledby, and trying to check myself using Windows Narrator. (This led to a whole exasperated kerfuffle of trying and absolutely failing to make an accessible hamburger menu, so I’m just going back to the top navigation bar for now.)
I'm trying to implement a dark mode on my site. I can do the basics: change the page background to dark and basic text to light. I cannot seem to get any of my links to change from the default colors, though. I've given myself a headache so it's time to stop for the night. I am better at HTML than CSS, so there's probably some conflict I'm obviously missing. I'll find it eventually. Not up to getting help right now.
I've started the l-o-n-g process to write a fanscript of FFBE Season 2. I have Season 1 complete on my site already, and do have a lot of the story events written down on paper but not typed up yet. Last year I had found YouTube videos of Season 2 and the missing story events, which is grand! Even grander is this site I found that collects all the videos in one place. Now, since the videos exist, I +have+ given thought to if it's worth it to write a fanscript, but I think I still want to do it. Because you can search in scripts, so may be good for fanfic writers? if people are still writing for FFBE... anyway, let's hope season 2 doesn't take me over four years like season 1 did!
I'm also working on FFXI: Chains of Promathia, but have some replaying to do. Luckily, I can get the game script from a dump of the chat log that Windower makes as I play, so then it's just some polishing up and adding flavor text to make scenes make more sense. I hope to have CoP done in the next month or so.
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Date: 2026-01-19 02:36 am (UTC)Here's the template (under "Blog Style Templates" in both Pastille and Periwinkle) for the curious just in case it might help anyone!! I missed Status Cafe a lot, but when I started running into this weird JavaScript bug there, I made the hard decision to let it go. Found this template and it gave me renewed hope!! ; u;
Good luck on any of the project you pursue this year!! ❤️
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Date: 2026-01-19 03:35 am (UTC)I came across a link to this site that's archiving stuff from dead ~mid-2000s personal sites. A lot of it is old Photoshop resources, but there's posts like this one that have button bases among other things.
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Date: 2026-01-19 06:15 am (UTC)1. Building a website for
2. Recreate thequirkyfan.com
3. Set up my own Fediverse
4. Set up my Development/Programming portfolio
5. Set up my "Link" website
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Date: 2026-01-19 10:06 am (UTC)Lets see, I have 3 shrines I'm working on. Two of which just need a edit and the third the coding and images are done, now I just need to write the content. I'm also still plugging away at Snowflake Challenge.
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Date: 2026-01-19 07:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-19 09:06 pm (UTC)I just saw someone mention using Frogtab for letting people send them messages through their website. Frogtab's creator has a guide for using it that way on a Bear blog. No clue if Neocities or other static hosts support it, but maybe it's useful to have.
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Date: 2026-01-20 07:59 am (UTC)https://content-security-policy.neocities.org
what SSG did you switch to? I've been using 11ty and for most things its fine, but I'm struggling a little with a few things - like it wants me to use sitewide tags when I want to keep tags specific to certain sections of my site and I can't seem to figure out how. just wondering if you found something easier I guess lol
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Date: 2026-01-20 02:39 pm (UTC)I'm using Zola! I haven't tried out its categorization system myself yet. Taxonomies is the closest I know Zola has to tagging built-in. It also seems to be site-wide as far as I can tell. Since a "tags" taxonomy seems to be a common solution for tagging, you could probably make a taxonomy per section. The other option I can see is putting tags in the [extra] data for each page and then making the section index pages group by tag or something.
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Date: 2026-01-25 06:41 am (UTC)Sorry for jumping in! For 11ty, probably the easiest way to do tags only for certain sections is to have separate 11ty blogs for each section. If you want to stick to a single 11ty blog, you can define tags unique to each section and then have separate tag lists for each section (you can do this using the Collections API, but this involves knowing a little javascript).
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Date: 2026-01-19 10:15 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-01-20 12:02 am (UTC)I'm trying to implement a dark mode on my site. I can do the basics: change the page background to dark and basic text to light. I cannot seem to get any of my links to change from the default colors, though. I've given myself a headache so it's time to stop for the night. I am better at HTML than CSS, so there's probably some conflict I'm obviously missing. I'll find it eventually. Not up to getting help right now.
I've started the l-o-n-g process to write a fanscript of FFBE Season 2. I have Season 1 complete on my site already, and do have a lot of the story events written down on paper but not typed up yet. Last year I had found YouTube videos of Season 2 and the missing story events, which is grand! Even grander is this site I found that collects all the videos in one place. Now, since the videos exist, I +have+ given thought to if it's worth it to write a fanscript, but I think I still want to do it. Because you can search in scripts, so may be good for fanfic writers? if people are still writing for FFBE... anyway, let's hope season 2 doesn't take me over four years like season 1 did!
I'm also working on FFXI: Chains of Promathia, but have some replaying to do. Luckily, I can get the game script from a dump of the chat log that Windower makes as I play, so then it's just some polishing up and adding flavor text to make scenes make more sense. I hope to have CoP done in the next month or so.
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Date: 2026-01-22 03:56 pm (UTC)