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smallwebSomehow it's September already and the kick-off point for Small Web September has arrived! \o/
As a reminder, this is the first of five ‘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.
This first post will be for introducing yourself and your project(s) and talking about what you’re planning to do during the month. Of course, there’s no obligation to stick to what you’ve set down and no-one will be checking up xD But it can be a nice thought exercise! You’re free to make the goal(s) as broad or as specific as you like – it’s totally up to you.
There’s no set format for this check-in, but here’s one you can use if you’d like (just copy-paste and replace the placeholders with your own answers in the comments):
Also, if anyone would like to answer it, here’s a discussion starter: What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
As a reminder, this is the first of five ‘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.
This first post will be for introducing yourself and your project(s) and talking about what you’re planning to do during the month. Of course, there’s no obligation to stick to what you’ve set down and no-one will be checking up xD But it can be a nice thought exercise! You’re free to make the goal(s) as broad or as specific as you like – it’s totally up to you.
There’s no set format for this check-in, but here’s one you can use if you’d like (just copy-paste and replace the placeholders with your own answers in the comments):
<strong>Name:</strong> (Username, nickname, whatever you like to go by)
<strong>Project(s):</strong> (Share a link to your project(s) if you’d like to, and/or describe what you’re making or would like to make!)
<strong>What are you hoping to work on for SWS?</strong> (This can be as general as “add to my site”, or as specific as “archive X fanworks” or “implement a responsive layout”. You could even include ‘bonus goals’ – more ambitious things you’d like to get to if you have time!)Also, if anyone would like to answer it, here’s a discussion starter: What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
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Date: 2024-09-01 12:57 am (UTC)Project(s): I'm planning to work on my personal fanworks archive, enchantedsleeper.space, during SWS!
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I've previously set goals around archiving a set number of fanworks, but I think my main goals for SWS will be:
Bonus goal if I can manage it: I'd like to implement comments (at least one friend has these set up, so, there is a way!). But I also have a bunch of to-dos for my site in a list, so, if I tackle any of these during the event, it will be good progress.
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Date: 2024-09-01 07:53 pm (UTC)I like it because it allows me full control over the comment section and the ability to customize it however. Also, unlike all the third part hosted options, I don't have to worry about it being shut down on me.
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Date: 2024-09-01 01:12 am (UTC)So doing things like archiving to my own personal fanworks archive reminds me of my early days in fandom and how exciting everything seemed. As to how I got interested/involved in small web things in the 2020s, I remember one morning (maybe the year before last?) I woke up way too early and couldn't sleep and I wound up scrolling the "web 1.0" tag on Tumblr and admiring the wonderfully pixellated and old-skool designs. That was the first time I realised that "web 1.0" was a movement and something that people were doing in the present day. It set me thinking about whether I could make a site like that, but I couldn't think what it would be about, so I didn't really try to act on it.
Then, last year, melannen's How to Make Your Own Fanfiction Archive guide started circulating and my brain connected the web 1.0 stuff with fanworks and went "oh, I could do this!" I think at one time making my own archive seemed self-centered, sort of, "Why would you assume that anyone would be interested in that?" But I like to approach it as a project for me, and also as a digital preservation thing, a way to arrange and preserve my fanworks in the way that I prefer. The fact that it also brought me into contact with cool communities like this one is a bonus ^^
(Long anecdote is long xD)
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Date: 2024-09-01 01:45 am (UTC)What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? I was one of the first in my artist circles to really make an effort to build my personal website around 2018 or so during tumblr's porn ban. it's only become more and more valuable as social media deteriorates (especially with many sites dropping kink art). being able to merge my longstanding fondness for fanshrines and JP artists sites back in the early 2000's with this archival process has been deeply rewarding both from a "self sufficient with tech" standpoint and "learning to value my artworks more" side..
Project(s): archiving my artworks using tegalog, a JP microblogging backend that can be used to replace wordpress (and it's ai scraping/automatic updates).
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? While the URL will change in the next two months, you can see the birds-eye progress of re-uploading all of my art here. :> (some images will be NSFW, but ideally blurred - still figuring out the technology) https://kradeelav.nfshost.com/diary/tegalog.cgi?mode=gallery
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Date: 2024-09-01 09:16 am (UTC)I feel this! My experience has been similar, with fanworks in place of artworks.
Also, it's extremely smart to shift onto a space that you control in order to publish NSFW stuff! Goodness knows I've seen enough artists despairing about porting from social network to social network because of prohibitions on NSFW. I know that a lot of the time it's also about exposure and finding an audience, but at least with your own site, you can avoid losing any work if you get banned, right?
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Date: 2024-09-01 01:52 am (UTC)Lady.
These days I try to consolidate everything onto Ladys Computer or one of its subdomains.
A while back I had an idea for an “issue tracking” / “programming log” section of my website, with the idea that every day where I work on something, I can, at the end of the day, type up a quick log entry stating what I worked on and link it to relevant tickets. The prerequisites for making this happen are :—
A vocabulary page, vocab.ladys.computer (forthcoming), providing an Owl ontology of various terms that I am liable to use in my various projects (including this one). (I am very close to having something workable here).
A specific profile of that ontology (backed by Shacl?) for projects/issues and log entries. I’m currently looking at EvoOnt as a starting place here, but I haven’t explored it in‐depth yet and it’s probable I’ll find it at least somewhat lacking. It’s possible I will roll my own, or follow the document‐based model of timbl’s track (but with a much better implementation).
The issue/log website itself. I’m hopeful this will come together fairly quickly once I have the data sorted.
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Date: 2024-09-01 10:51 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-01 02:28 am (UTC)Project(s): About a year ago I started Babylon 5, Archived, a project that intended to archive a directory of all fandom content I could find on Wayback Machine created during the time the show was originally airing. But, life, and I haven't worked on it in WAY too long.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? Well, let's seee.... I should update the curator's page and I want to do more searching for links, update more pages, etc. Maybe even create a button. Also should edit the site's mobile theme because when I made it I didn't know as much about HTML as I do now.
What interests me about the small web & how did I get into it? Well, I started out on the internet in 2004.......... at the age of 3. I quickly learned to turn off parental browser controls and just started doing what I wanted. I had a Geocities and was making social networks on Webs.com (RIP) in my childhood. My family was pretty tech-savvy so they created a monster, LOL. So coding has always been special to me. I got into the small web around 2022 when I wanted a place to archive my OC x Canon fanfiction that I was... frankly too embarrassed at the time to put on ao3 LOL, and found neocities. I quickly went down a rabbit hole of viewing all neocities sites I could find and eventually making my own (which is now hosted two places: my main site and my way more personal/experimental site). I hate how social media functions these days, the hatred of its userbase, the lack of customization in pages, the inability to post whatever the heck you wish, the utter judgement... I love that I have a place away from it all.
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Date: 2024-09-01 11:32 am (UTC)That is such a fantastic idea! I would love something like that for my old fandoms; heck, I would really enjoy making something like that for my old fandoms, although I'm not 100% sure how I would go about finding things to link to. Do you have methods that you use to track down old sites and communities?
Wait, for real??? Damn, and I thought I got on the computer early. (I had one from a young age too, but that was in the 90s and we didn't get internet until the early 00s). I guess that's one way to have the 00s web experience even if you were born later XD Very cool!
Ha, this is also what I'm doing with my oldest fics from 2005 onwards, which I never wanted to cross-post to AO3 xD But having them sort of placed in the context of my fandom history feels okay? Also, it's a good thing that I *didn't* have the internet around the time of my very earliest fics (I was writing them before I knew what they were) or I would have even cringier material xD
100% this ^
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Date: 2024-09-01 02:34 am (UTC)Name: Azure
Project(s): I'm planning to work on the fandom portion of my personal website. :)
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?: I'd just like to design and add a couple of pages; specifically, a landing page and a page to detail things about an AU I recently created! I think my main goals will be more about figuring out the designs for them and how I want to structure the content on them.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?: Something that interests me about the small web is the different methods of communication people use to meet and connect with each other—webrings, forums and whatnot. I really like and prefer that method of finding people and talking to them because it's much slower compared to social media, and it's much more fun and less stressful to me. I learned about the small web from a very popular post about Neocities on Tumblr, actually, and it intrigued me so much that I pretty much dove right in—I'd made simple little websites before using drag-and-drop website builders when I was in middle school, and learning HTML/CSS didn't sound very hard at all. And it wasn't! Plus, the state of modern social media was concerning me regarding its general stability, so I figured a website I could keep a backup of was better than getting a rug pulled out from under me. ^^
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Date: 2024-09-02 01:11 am (UTC)Absolutely! Man, I miss forums. Webrings are so neat, too, and I need to get on and join some. I'm pro-bringing back bulletin boards/BBSes, too!
I don't suppose you have the link to that Neocities Tumblr post you mentioned? I'd be interested in reading it ^^
Absolutely. I hear that! Taking back control of your own web presence 💪
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Date: 2024-09-01 04:23 am (UTC)Name: scumsuck, tempural, etc
Project(s): (no nsfw images, but will link to nsfw sites)fujofans web listing! a web listing for fans of yaoi, yuri and other gay art.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I haven't updated it in like 8 months for raisins, but I'm hoping to get started on:
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
I got into it cuz I needed to make my own website, cuz every single site ever was banning adult art LMAO. I saw a lot of other artists using neocities before, so I started with that. I can't help but be sucked into the "neo" part that reminded me of making pet pages on Neopets.
I searched google for whatever I needed to do at the moment like "how to make gallery page" or "how do i make thumbnails when i post the link lol". I never went through proper tutorials or courses, and I never will cuz my low attention span makes me cry with school and lessons. So I just slowly learn at my own pace whenever I have time. And then seeing people talk about broader communities like Yesterweb and 32bitcafe... keeping up with the small web and personal sites hashtags on different platforms.. yeah... I just like seeing how everyone can customize their own site as its own form of art (visual, audio, interactive!), and I like keeping up with people OUTSIDE of social media!
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Date: 2024-09-02 02:12 am (UTC)This is 100% how I do everything I need to on my site xD This usually results in my trying to figure out what the code actually does when something goes wrong or it doesn't work as expected, or I want to modify it and realise I have no idea what to modify. But it's a time-honoured Way! Sometimes it can take a step or two to figure out what I actually want to know versus what I want the thing to do.
Everyone keeps mentioning these, I should really look them up! I'm glad this event is broadening my horizons :D
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Date: 2024-09-01 04:37 am (UTC)Project(s):
Probably my personal site.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
I think there are two things I currently want to work on:
- my personal fanfic archive: I want to find all my old fics from everywhere (old CDs, hard drives, paper notebooks, wayback machine etc) and add them to my site.
- a "shrine" or fansite about Postcrossing which is something I love doing. I want to share info about it and my postcard collection etc.
However, I am also the kind of person that will say "I will work on -this specific thing-" and then I will randomly decide to work on something completely unrelated that I didn't even realise I wanted to do. So, we'll see I guess.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
For me its partly nostalgia. I was making websites way back in the late 90s. My first site was on Geocities (I was actually a "community leader" on geocities in the Area51 neighbourhood). I had a personal page until probably around 2008, and I had numerous fansites mostly related to star trek voyager and stargate. It was always something I enjoyed, I think for me creating a site was a fun way to be creative. I stopped for a while after that, real life etc. But last year I came across neocities and the small web movement and I realised how much I missed making sites, so I made my own personal page at neocities and have been enjoying working on that, learning all the new html and css (it has changed a lot since the 90s lol)
I think its also though, that the internet has lost a lot of individuality. Site all look the same and it sometimes feels like there are only a dozen sites to visit when it used to feel like there were thousands. Since I started participating in the small web again I have discovered so many new and interesting sites and they all have have their individual flair to them. And I think the small web lets people have a voice, and gives people a place where they can be 100% who they are instead of conforming to the standards of social media. That can only be a positive.
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Date: 2024-09-02 05:31 am (UTC)I'm super curious as to what this is! 👀
Absolutely same xD I wouldn't be surprised if I wind up working on something else random from my to-do list, or just archiving more fics. But it would all be a net positive!
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Date: 2024-09-01 04:47 am (UTC)Project(s):
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? Archiving! Everything is currently a mess for various reasons I'll mention below. I'm going to set a goal of archiving five fics or chapters per day for the month though I'll probably have to adjust that down once I see how things are going.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
I've always been here! I made my first Geocities site in early 1997 and have always had some site of my own somewhere since. I had (have) a version of the Lemonade Cafe on a friend's hosting, however friend has had far more real life happen than is fair and I've lost touch with them and access to editing the site. I mirrored all the fanfiction on it to AO3 back in 2019 and started mirroring off original fiction to DW but got behind on that... I then stopped posting to AO3 entirely for [reasons] last year and am trying to get all my writing in a single place (technically two - DW & NC) under my own control and organized in a way that I personally feel makes sense.
Unfortunately my writing goes back to late-2002 and there's a lot and *sob*.
The nice thing is that I can always remind myself that if one approach doesn't work, I can always go back and arrange things differently, etc.
It's going to feel good to have it done.
But, otherwise, I just... the internet becoming five sites with people talking at each other and not to each other got pretty depressing and I've loved being on the Fediverse and just having random little conversations with people. I've loved seeing people's websites and it just... takes me back to the late-90's and wandering around webrings and spending all day looking at galleries or finding a random web novel. Just... look at all the cool stuff people are making, this is great!
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Date: 2024-09-02 01:33 pm (UTC)I hear that - my fanwork history goes back to 2005, and my "omnific chart" with all my fanworks has more than 150 entries. I'm sure your list has even more, especially judging by the number of fandoms xD It makes it feel like I'll never really be finished with archiving, particularly given that I keep making new works, but I'm hoping that I'll get into a rhythm with archiving and make more progress there. Annnny minute now. I just need to stop getting hung up on the look of the thing ^^;
Absolutely, and I love getting that sense of fun and unexpected discovery back as I browse through people's websites <3 Who needs a day job, we should all just get to spend the whole day tooling around with 90s style webpages and finding cool stuff :D
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Date: 2024-09-01 06:45 am (UTC)The announcement of this challenge inspired me so much that I've already started adding to it. I've also started working concurrently on at least one other shrine I had planned and have a handful of others in mind, so I can foresee I'll likely be working on a few throughout this month to varying degrees. xD
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I find I work better with simple, broad goals, so I'm going to stick with "Add content and design elements to flesh out a fan shrine."
What that might look like:
- Adding character cards, images, and simple biographical information
- Detailing a timeline or summary of canon
- Embedding media (PDFs, audio, playlists, video, image carousels)
- Expanding the links list and adding other sites/communities/resources people have made for the fandom
- Making it pretty (a.k.a. webpage design -- banners, backgrounds, buttons, font styles, etc)
- Playing around with HTML and CSS more in general
Stretch goals:
- Meta analysis on the canon(s)
- Landing page that can link to all the shrines
- Maps? Graphs? Spreadsheets? Cracky stats?
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Date: 2024-09-03 03:00 am (UTC)Omg, that's so great to hear! I'm delighted that you were inspired ^^ I often get that same "new event enthusiasm" and want to make something right away when I join an event, so for exchanges and anything WiFi a sign-up period it's annoying to wait until the event properly kicks off xD
I support having simple and flexible goals, too! Good luck with your shrine work! <3
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Date: 2024-09-01 07:11 am (UTC)Project(s): I have very little self control when it comes to buying domains.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I'd like to finish some of the unfinished things that have been languishing, like the website intended for my original fiction (leusana.city), an essay on my teenage obsessions with Mulan and Joan of Arc, an article on dealing with debt collectors, a few other things.
As a bonus, I'd like to get a fic archive up for my newest fandom.
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Date: 2024-09-02 02:03 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-09-01 07:24 am (UTC)Project(s): MarineHaddock.Gay
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? Making a new light theme for my site and archiving all my fanfics (except the ones I really don't want to) 🎉Bonus goal is to add some sort of filtering or search to the main fics page
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Date: 2024-09-03 03:04 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-09-01 08:58 am (UTC)Project(s): I made a Neocities site last year and very clearly haven't gotten past the landing page.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? Finish and archive my Blaseball team history project on that site. Stretch goal: start archiving my fanfic either on the Neocities site or in a fic comm.
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Date: 2024-09-03 03:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-01 09:05 am (UTC)Project(s): For a while I've wanted to make a fan shrine for something or other, but the idea snowballed into basically a full fan site for one of my fandoms (Tales of the Rays)... A lot of the things like archival work and documentation on how to get the offline version of the game working after the official cut-off date for file downloads are stuck on Discord servers, so I'd like to provide an alternative outside of Discord. (I still want to include shrine-like elements! My vision is a sort of 50/50 split between the two.)
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? The bare minimum I want is to get the layout finished! I also want to learn some sort of static site generator because dear god the idea of updating a navigation menu by hand made me want to tear my hair out the moment I thought about it (mostly I've gotten around it so far in existing projects by either abusing PHP or having subpar navigation that prioritizes ease as a webmaster over ease as a visitor). For that I've been heavily considering Eleventy since it seems the simplest and easiest to learn?
The ambitious ideal goal is to not just get the layout finished, but also write at least a first revision of all of the core pages.
EDIT: Oh related to the challenge but not to my main project, I'd like to get back into online TCGs! I fell off the wagon last year for a variety of reasons but I really want to get back to it. TCGs were the first place I got to put my hands on a space on the web that really felt like "mine", so they're special to me in that sense, too. This is my current trade post; I'm still proud of the layout I made for it.
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Date: 2024-09-01 09:45 am (UTC)What are TCGs? I've never heard of it, it's impossible to google, and now I'm super curious XD
(Also, if you need help with static site generators hit me up, I've worked with several. Automating away boring tasks ftw.)
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Date: 2024-09-01 09:25 am (UTC)Name: annathecrow
Project(s): https://starwars.annathecrow.net, my SW fanpage; I also have a fanart archive and an older, unmaintained tilde on tilde.club
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? My broad goal is to stay excited. Keep the interest up, keep adding things, play around, have fun. Projects often turn to chores for me and I want to stave that off as long as I can.
I plan to mostly work on starwars.annathecrow.net, but I'm toying with the idea of either rebuilding the tilde as a personal site, or at least creating some project listing on annathecrow.net.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? My favorite parts are creative freedom and technological minimalism. Which, I know that sounds like nonsense, given how maximalist most Small Web visual design is, but from technological perspective it's all very primitive. HTML, CSS, pictures, minimal JavaScript. I'm a professional web developer and many of us feel serious fatigue with the amount of stuff the sites we maintain are build from: dynamic frameworks, applications with complex life-cycles, advertisement systems, layers upon layers of tracking. To make something that's just a few paragraphs and links is incredibly refreshing.
(I mean, my sites are all built with static site generator frameworks, but that's because they're fun and like hell am I hand coding HTML if I don't have to. Markdown my beloved <3)
My first encounter with something that could be labeled Small Web was through tildes (sorry for the Medium.com link, the article is worth it). I immediately fell in love with the idea and found a home on tilde.club. It didn't really stick but it was an awesome experience. Tildes are a magical thing and I would be over the moon if someone built a fandom tilde. (One day I might go crazy and do it myself. How hard can that be? ...famous last words, lol.)
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Date: 2024-09-03 03:24 am (UTC)I feel you on that one! I want to preserve the novelty of doing small web stuff as much as I possibly can. And I want to avoid taking it too seriously. This conflicts a bit with my desire to have a "polished"-looking site (or even just a site that looks like I know what tf I'm doing); even as I'm trying to let my site be silly and imperfect, I want it to look "cool" xD It's a battle.
Oh my god, yes. I love that about small web site-building, too. Originally when I set out to make a personal fanworks archive, I thought that I would host it on WordPress so that I could archive without worrying about the look or code. I installed WP and looked at the dozens of files on my web host and thought, "...I have no idea what any of these are for." And the idea of not understanding my own site made me sad. So, I deleted it all and made a static HTML site instead \o/
Oh, that sounds very fun! And from 2014, too! Is tilde.club still going today?
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Date: 2024-09-01 09:56 am (UTC)Project: Balamb Garden, my Final Fantasy VIII fan website on Neocities.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
- I'm planning to archive the genuinely terrible unfinished Final Fantasy VIII comic I drew in my teens, despite having absolutely no drawing ability. I've been dragging my feet on this, because a) it's embarrassing and b) it's going to involve a lot of fiddly image editing. But I'd like this website to include all my major Final Fantasy VIII projects, even the bad ones.
- I've got assorted Final Fantasy VIII commentfic scraps floating around that I'm not sure what to do with; maybe I'll pull all of those together and think about whether it's worth creating a page for them.
- I recently started adding small sections for other Final Fantasy and FF-adjacent games. I've got pages up for Kingdom Hearts, Final Fantasy XIII and Final Fantasy XVI, so I'll see if I can make progress on adding some more this month. I'd ultimately like to add pages for VI, VII, IX, X, XII and XV.
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Date: 2024-09-02 02:07 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-09-01 10:16 am (UTC)Project(s): my craft archive
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I need to finish uploading 15-ish years of craft backlog x') Also a page with tips for crochet intarsia and a few patterns.
I'm skipping the discussion starter, but I find it worth mentioning that what kicked my butt into coding my first site (this decade =p) was AO3 DDoS in early July 2023, which pushed me to cross-post all my writing on my own archive for these moments when AO3 is not accessible. Which turned out to mostly mean "I now have Chinese readers", which I hadn't thought of.
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Date: 2024-09-01 07:13 pm (UTC)Wait, I'm curious, how do you know you have Chinese readers? Visitor tracking? Do they contact you? Sorry if this is nosy! It just caught my brain, I guess.
Also, I checked out your craft archive - all those friendship bracelets! So cool. Sigh, I haven't made one in literal decades... maybe I ought to try it again for nostalgia's sake.
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Date: 2024-09-01 10:18 am (UTC)Project(s): I've promised my bestie a responsive static Neocities site for her poetry and short story publications. I'll start with that and continue tinkering with my new homepage.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
① Bestie's poetry site
② reformat my personal page to be mobile-friendly
③ ???
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Date: 2024-09-03 05:58 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-09-01 11:03 am (UTC)Name: peasina (or "pea")
Project(s): A personal Neocities site! Initially, it's just for fun and to see if I can do it, but I may end up using it as an extention/addition to my DW journal.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I'm hoping to make a responsive site that I find visually appealing and come up with some kind of basic structure for the information I'd like to include there. I like to look around at other sites and get inspired by them, so it'll be half research mission, half borrowing ideas and making them my own :)
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Date: 2024-09-03 06:01 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-01 11:24 am (UTC)Project(s): Update my actor archives: Phoenix: Michael Biehn Archive, David Hewlett Archive, Focussed on Nick Lea Archive, UpClose: Eric Close Archive
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I want to at least make a little progress on each the following:
1. Reduce the overall number of files:
This is because individual screen captures take up a LOT of inodes (file/directory markers) and most webhosts now have a maximum number of inodes allowed. With four archives, I hit the maximum at one point and had to make some reductions as I cannot afford to buy more webspace. I reduced the inode count by putting 8-10 screencaps per file but haven't got more done in almost a year, plus I still have a LOT of screen captures to add to the sites eventually.
Current usage: 169,236/200,000
2. Create new or update existing pages and links as appropriate.
Add any new actor credits from the past year or so. Also, I inherited the Nick Lea archive from a friend who could no longer maintain it. I have started moving everything to a similar webpage design as the other 3 archives to make it easier for me to maintain. I still have a lot more to do as each credit page requires gathering information and setting up gallery links.
3. Add items to empty albums in the Gallery:
When I create the credits I also set up the required gallery albums but often don't have time to locate/create and upload images into the new albums. I hate seeing all the empty albums. I would like for there to be something to see when someone clicks on a link.
4. Look at ideas on how to make the sites mobile friendly:
I have tried a few ideas but have yet to get a sliding/pull out menu to work the way I want it. Any ideas would be welcome!
All about ME: I built the first archive (Phoenix) back in 2004 using pure HTML as software like Microsoft's Frontpage was full of bloatware. It might not be so much of a deal now but in 2004 most people were on 14Kbps modems! Having a 30Kb webpage bloated out to 500Kb meant it took close to a minute to load instead of 2 secs. Over the years I have tweaked the design to use CSS/stylesheets and started to make it uniform across all four sites.
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Date: 2024-09-01 02:06 pm (UTC)Project(s): Oh, yikes, way too many WIPs right now! 😅 I have a personal website and an archive for my fanfics that have both been slow WIPs for over a year now. And a bunch of shrines on my website that really need finished. Also, I just recently obtained hosting and domains for two fansites I would love to create; one for Superman fandom and one for the Librarian fandom. (And, if I can finally figure out PHP I'd love to add a fanwork archive to the Librarian site.) Lastly, I just launched a new site on nekoweb to eventually house my original fiction, if I ever actually get it built.
So, basically, way too many projects and not enough free time to get any of them done lol.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
Bonus goal: Possibly work on making the site more mobile responsive. Some of the pages are kinda mobile friendly, but they really need a ton more work in that area.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? My first introduction to the world of fandom was via small personal fansites and archives in the days of the "old web". Due to my age, I sadly only discovered all of that as it was on its way out. After seeing the massive push these last couple years from DW, Tumblr, and AO3 users to get back to small indie sites, I decided rather impulsively to just dive right in lol. Knowing absolutely nothing about coding, I made my first html page in June 2023 on neocities. In the year since, I've had a blast learning so much about web building, web design, and getting to meet and chat with other members of the indie web space. It's a constant learning process, but one I'm enjoying so much more than I thought possible.
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Date: 2024-09-03 10:56 am (UTC)It's the best way to do it! And learning as you go can be really fun. I feel the same way about the small web community I've found so far 😍 Definitely zero regrets about jumping in here!
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Date: 2024-09-01 02:22 pm (UTC)Project(s): My personal site!
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? Keeping up with crossposting my work (artwork and fics) to my site! That's the main goal. I have some things I still need to get up there, so that's what I'd like to do. If I can think of anything else I'd like I'll edit to add them here! (EDIT: I just remembered my events page needed to be updated, so I'll work on that too! As well as tweak up other pages.)
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? Wanting to have a space to call my own after being really tired about socmed, and somewhere I can host my NSFW art with peace of mind as more platforms are banning it are what got me into making my own website. (I actually made multiple websites as a child in Microsoft publisher too, they just never saw the light of day and never went online.)
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Date: 2024-09-03 11:00 am (UTC)I've seen a number of people cite that as a motivator in their responses here, and I totally get it. More power to you in making a space that isn't subject to tech giant whims! Also, I really like the buttons and icons on your site and am very tempted to purloin a few XD
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Date: 2024-09-01 02:32 pm (UTC)Project(s): Further work on my personal site, and an image processor to create woodcut/halftone illustrations from pictures.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?: For my personal site I want to improve my resume/portfolio setup and redo my personal web ring. With the image processor, I would like to get a working output to look close to my reference
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? I have lately been learning (and re-learning) about making the web more sustainable, both in ecological terms and in making it worth visiting and exploring. I am a professional web developer, and want to make my craft better, but I'm also just tired of corporate platforms. I've been especially interested in permacomputing, self-hosting, and native HTML/CSS/JS tooling and how to bring that into my work and especially into the projects I do in my free time. I am interested in making the web better than it has ever been.
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Date: 2024-09-03 11:18 am (UTC)A woodcut/halftone image processor sounds really awesome! Best of luck with that project! I also appreciate the link to the permacomputing page, as this is a new term for me and I find it very interesting 👀
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Date: 2024-09-01 03:52 pm (UTC)Project(s): My personal site!
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
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Date: 2024-09-01 11:50 pm (UTC)Your website looks fantastic! Uploading the HTML already formatted by AO3 and then styling it is so simple, but genius. I tried to recreate the format of it from scratch, but I think what I ended up is a little too busy looking especially with the styling. I'm definitely making changing that a todo lol.
I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with!
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Date: 2024-09-01 05:22 pm (UTC)I am not actually sure if I have time to participate, but I'd love to give it a try, so!
Name: Larissa
Project(s): Ideally I'd like to make one of my WIP fansites for redcrown.net. I've been getting back into Sailor Moon lately, so perhaps my long-overdue Sailor Uranus site?
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? See above, but also I've been batting around the idea of making a fic archive on my website... I've always kept my fic and website stuff separate, but the growing number of personal fic archives really appeals to me. Plus I can make fandom-specific archives since I have domains for them...
As for how I got into this, I've been making my own websites since 2002, and I just never stopped. It's really heartwarming to see people making new sites in the current day! I've met many, many friends over the years of this hobby and while most of them have since moved on, I'm really happy to see new folks getting interested in making their own websites. I really believe that maintaining your own space on the web is vital in today's social media-driven landscape. You're much more than whatever a socmed profile limits you to!
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Date: 2024-09-02 07:58 pm (UTC)Thanks for linking me to this event btw. <3
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