Community Guidelines

[kalloway]

Since the community has grown exponentially over the last few days, I feel it appropriate to put three quick guidelines down in text. I will add them to the sticky post at the top of the community momentarily.

1. Don't be a jerk. This should be self-explanatory. If someone is being a jerk in the comments, kindly let me know.

2. Please only offer appropriate advice. The community is open to everyone regardless of experience or skill level. (e.g. a post about HTML on Neocities. Yes: Here are some simple HTML resources! No: You'd be better off running your own server in your basement and also moving to geminispace.)

3. Label your links and note the contents. This applies both to resources and your own projects. This does not need to be a long list; please just let people know what they're clicking on, especially if there is explicit/18+ content.

These are not retroactive, don't worry. (I'd like to think nobody has been jerks though.)

Looking for a coding buddy

[fred_mouse]

Is there anyone here working in any of R, Quarto, RMarkdown, or blogdown for their sites? I'm playing around at the moment, deciding what works for me, and I'd love to have someone to trade ideas with.

If not, I'll probably make the odd post here about my journey--and, because today was a productive day in terms of 'how do I want to go about this', some notes:

• current goal: book reviews section with
  • index page for authors; maybe with the books--stretch goal.
  • individual author pages, books in whatever order I add them
• proof of concept draft: two authors, three books. In the process of developing these two pages I have
  • written three small R functions to write the sections exactly the same way each time (rather than copy/paste format)
  • written a template
  • failed to get Table of Contents working (eh, later)
  • failed to work out how to handle the data -- at the moment I'm creating a data frame at the top of each page, which handles book title, rating, reading date(s), and content notes, and then putting the review text in by hand. This might end up being the preferred option; I'll have to think about that.
  • started on the index page -- I want to create it based on the files in the 'individual authors' folder; still working out how to parse the html files I've already written.

next up: load the two author pages to neocities. link them to the index. link that to the home page. work out how css works and add some interesting details.

Long term I want to have individual book files that are then assembled into the individual author files, as well as into pages for any awards they've won/been nominated for. That is going to require quite a bit more knowledge on my part of how to handle a 'data base' where one of the elements is lots of formatted text.