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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 08:40 pm (UTC)Project(s): Personal fic archive, https://maitimiel.neocities.org
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
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Date: 2024-09-04 04:53 am (UTC)Both? Both! Both is good :D No, in seriousness I have the same conundrum because I want to improve the look of my fic pages a lot but I also need to just spend more time getting them online and then worry about the look later. I'd also like to improve more general site layout and navigation, and again, it would be nice to improve but primarily the goal is to archive xD I've tried to balance the two but I think I've spent more time fiddling with ~appearances >.>
I hope you can progress your tutorials and templates, too! I'm excited for those :DDD
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Date: 2024-09-01 10:12 pm (UTC)Project(s): Miracle Romance
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I want to add more reviews to shoujo reviews and another volume to Sailor Moon manga reviews by chapter. I'd also like to add a Silver Millennium fanon page and (if I'm feeling really ambitious) start reviewing BL manga.
I got the internet at the age of 13 and quickly found Geocities and Angelfire sailor moon shines. I didn't have my own shrine though. I loved it, missed it afterwards, and when I learned about Neocities I decided to try to learn to code so I could make my own site.
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Date: 2024-09-02 08:15 pm (UTC)Geocities/Angelfire Sailor Moon shrines are what initially drew me to the web too! How great that you're now making your own to share your love! Your Serenity/Endymion page moves me...
I'm looking forward to your Silver Millennium fanon page. :O!
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Date: 2024-09-01 11:22 pm (UTC)Name: alaterdate, Joey
Project(s): My personal site
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
I recently started working on a "big update" I've been wanting to do which is mainly changing the way I upload my book reviews, some cosmetic changes to the main pages, changing the file organization so the urls look better to me, and adding some new pages like different collections. Specifically for SWS I wanna use it as motivation to actually get all the book reviews formatted because that's the most tedious part.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
When I got a Dreamwidth account I started messing with markdown and HTML which led to me downloading a markdown text editor that had different styles you could use within it which I later learned were made with CSS. I started thematically formatting the fic I was writing in it and when I showed my friend and she said "you should make a website." It was an intimidating, but intriguing thought! I had no idea how to put a website on the internet. Looking into it led me to the neocities web revival movement which seemed the easiest way to start and so I jumped in. I'm grateful to the people who were out there making tutorials for neocites/html/css.
What has really gripped me about the small web is how creative it is. I've always loved themes, and customization has steadily been taken away from us on major platforms. I find it really fun to design pages despite the frustrations I come up against while being a newbie. I like having a little space for myself to use as I please and a pleasant home for stuff that tends to get put up all over different places (goodreads, ao3, notion, dreamwidth).
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Date: 2024-09-04 05:08 am (UTC)Incredibly so! I wouldn't have a site if not for those resources!
Fully agree - it's so strange to compare my memories of the web ~20 years ago to now and remember when personalisation and customising was just a given. And I agree on having fun despite the teething issues XD The challenge makes the pay-off all the better.
I'm doing similar with my site and collecting together fanworks and thoughts/WIPs that have been scattered across a bunch of different places - it's good to have a central hub for everything, and then you'll always be able to retrieve it and also have a backup just in case something should happen to the original post.
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Date: 2024-09-04 03:26 pm (UTC)Lmao š I guess none of us would be here if we just took the path of least resistance for everything! And that does sound very impressive to this uninitiated person ^^
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Date: 2024-09-01 11:29 pm (UTC)Project(s): A personal website including fic archive, book and game reviews, birdwatching thoughts, and maybe more?
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I started designing pages and testing out templates months ago, but I've been really busy IRL (I moved!) and haven't gotten around to really sitting down and working on the site. I'm hoping this event will motivate me.
I'm old, so my first experience of the internet was when "small web" was all there was, and I had a personal website when that was still a commonplace thing to have. But when the modern internet started to take shape, I guess I abandoned it like most people did. I'm excited that people are starting to get interested in this sort of project again.
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Date: 2024-09-04 11:42 pm (UTC)I've also had bursts of momentum on my site that tend to get hampered by things happening IRL, so I feel you. I tend to need something like this event to prod me into prioritising it again xD
Me too! There are so many cool sites and projects being shown off in this event alone. It's getting me interested in making more sites, not just the one that I have so far - I wish I had more time to spend working on it all, though xD
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Date: 2024-09-02 12:08 am (UTC)Project: Moving site development to an SSG
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I want to use an SSG to make running my blog easier! I've already started it, but the fall semester has also started too. As college work will take up most of my time, I think it's a reasonable goal to simply have that done by the end of September!
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Date: 2024-09-03 06:55 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-09-02 12:11 am (UTC)Project(s): A personal webpage hosted on Neocities! I have no idea what Iām going to do with it yet, I donāt even know the domain Iām planning on using (Iām very picky about URLS and usernames and the like) but I do know Iām going to have fun with it!
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
The main thing I want to do is set up a homepage with a little bit of info about yours truly and accessible (if not yet live) llinks to whatever shenanigans I get up toā I havenāt done any work on my site; itās still just the āWelcome to Neocitiesā splash. ^-^; Anything else is a bonus since Iām very much learning as I go.
Smaller goal: I really dig the Made On [Insert Operating System Of Choice Here] flavor of 88 x 31 site buttons, but I havenāt dug up any for my poison of choice (Linux Mint) yet, so Iām going to dabble in making a few of my own.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
I think the most interesting part of the indie web is just how personal it can get. Iām a bit too young to feel nostalgic for this sort of thing, and I didnāt even know about Neocities and the fact that personal pages were something people still did until sometime late last yearā I found out that a friend has a page and then went down a rabbit hole of furious research that I haveā¦ yet to put into practice. I just think learning a new skill while making something tailored to me and only me (something that I feel I need to get better at as a creative; I put a little too much value on othersā perception of my work) will be a really cool and fun experience. :)
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Date: 2024-09-05 12:56 am (UTC)High five! I am too - the main reason I didn't spend too long debating my fanworks archive's URL is because .space was available as a top level domain (and not too expensive) and I really liked the idea of calling it "enchantedsleeper's space". I feel like we have almost too much choice nowadays, though, in terms of site domain š I remember when the biggest debate was over ".co.uk" versus ".com" for our family website back in the day xD
That sounds great! I really want to have a button for my site to make links back to it more aesthetic and fun, and I suppose I should make one but I don't really know where to start xD If you find any good tutorials, please do let me know!
Absolutely - I thought the same thing when I embarked on making my archive, that it would be cool to learn new skills whilst making this just for fun and for me. I'm also working hard at trying not to make comparisons to others' cool sites and see mine as a bit basic by comparison xD I can be proud of what I've made (and you will be too!)
Good luck and let me know what domain you wind up choosing ;D
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Date: 2024-09-02 06:17 pm (UTC)Project(s): Yukari Takeba shrine
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? The shrine up there is actually the reason of why I started coding! Unafortunely, it has been 2 years gathering dust. Then I told myself "I will wait until I play P3RE to refresh my memory on the game & start writting it", which still haven't happened
(anyone got a spare PS5?)So my goal is to finally get around to work on it again! My goal is more focused on writting (which I find very hard) rather than coding as I already have the layout done, but a page is a page.
At the very least I would like to finish the "Persona analysis", "Story" "Relationship" and "Why I like her" sections which are the ones I find the most important as the point of the shrine is to explain why she is one of my favortie characters, and try to make others appreciate her as well.
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Date: 2024-09-04 06:41 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-09-02 06:55 pm (UTC)Currently waiting to have my server isolated better from the LAN after a move to Proxmox, then, I'll see about actually working on my website lol. Sketched out a map of pages the other day, want to start laying some groundwork, figuring out how I want to use layouts in Astro, my SSG. And some styling! Feels like I've got too many branching paths hah, we'll see where it goes.
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Date: 2024-09-03 07:09 pm (UTC)Oh hey, another Astro user! I've only just started working with it, but I'm really enjoying it. Especially content collections - it feels like every time I add something I end up going "this would be so much easier with a collection" (and then I turn it into one and yep, I was right).
Why did you choose it for your website?
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Date: 2024-09-02 07:20 pm (UTC)Project(s): So I have 3 separate neocities sites. I've learned a lot about html and css over the last year after basically starting from nothing. My main fan related site is muttthecowcat.neocities.org. I have a blog and my petz site on it.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? So I'd like to revamp the css for muttthecowcat and for my fashion site (mutterbutter.neocities.org). When I first made my fashion site, I used a template that had only a main text section and went back to add side bars myself. I'd like to restructure everything with a wrapper so all the pages can have sidebars that function correctly. I also want to redo the css for muttthecowcat. When I first made it's css, I just named all my divs whatever I wanted to because I didn't think it mattered. But now I know some of them are important, especially for screen readers so I'd like to fix it and hopefully my other sites as well!
Finally, I have lace bordering on mutterbutter that uses a series of divs to make it function correctly. Now that I know more about the image border function, I'd like to make a png that can be used as a lace border on it's own.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?I started making neocities sites about 2 years ago. I've never done well with traditional social media because I just can't make myself post every day or make lots of image posts. I do however love learning about coding. I started out with editing my tumblr html and css and have now learned enough to make a functioning neocities page. I hope to learn more about js this year too!
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Date: 2024-09-06 01:58 pm (UTC)Very much same here. Although I really like Dreamwidth, I think my "circle" here is still small because I don't blog very consistently (it would also be good if I could find more time to leave comments and engage, but I struggle to do that frequently too). Pillowfort is more forgiving of my sporadic activity bursts but I'm still not as active on there as I aspire to be. So, I feel you. But making indie websites is cooler anyway š (Jk, jk)
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Date: 2024-09-02 07:30 pm (UTC)Name: Silvercat
Project(s): Hoping to do a combination of blogging, mod stuff on Dreamwidth, and working on my Neocities site.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I've got a to-do list that includes a variety of stuff.
- I have two planned blog posts that I've meant to do for ages.
- I started re-doing my Neocities site and I'd like to make progress on that.
- I have a project in progress on
- I want to get Writer's Salon going again, but at
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Date: 2024-09-06 02:02 pm (UTC)I also really like that you have conlangs on your site! That's super cool! Best of luck with the revamp (and your other goals)! <3
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Date: 2024-09-02 07:50 pm (UTC)Project(s): progress on the revamp of oubliette.nu
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
oubliette.nu is my home on the web and the hub of my entire site network (which is mostly comprised of shrines); ideally, it should be representative of the things I create, concern myself with and wish to express. Alas, the current layout and content have been up since... 2016, and a revamp has been long overdue. I nearly finished writing all the new text a while ago, and have been playing around with the layout for a week or so.
I won't have enough free time in September (will be absent for the last third of the month too) to come close to finishing the revamp, so I don't know if I'll have anything to show by the end of the month, but I am very fired up to continue work on the layout draft, and hope to make significant progress during the challenge! :D
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
I've been making websites since around 2002, i.e. when everyone was getting into site-making and when there still was a wealth of fansites (shrines or otherwise) and personal sites. After running a few personal sites and smaller fansites for a few years, I didn't make sites with the purpose of creative expression for a longer period. Maintaining a personal trade post for my online TCG activities, however, kept my interest in personal sites and webdesign alive.
Shrines, a type of fanwork in the format of fan websites, and especially Sailor Moon and Final Fantasy shrines, were one of my first loves in the world wide web, and my heart has been beating for them since childhood. I love that they are personal archives of very specific nerdy subject matters, that they are informative in a way that, say, Wikis aren't, and that they are so versatile when it comes to creative expression (I love looking at layouts! seeing the thoughts behind a site name! browsing navigations! reading essays and meta! perusing personally curated galleries! seeing personal associations with other media! checking out link lists!).
I bought my first domain in 2011, and truly started making the shrines I so admired around 2015, and have since been chasing my dream of making all the shrines I want to create. Through every step of this, community ā be it fandom, fellow budding webmasters, graphic sites of old or the shrine community ā has always been an immense help, inspiration and joy. Browsing other people's projects and seeing all the creative energy is such a big source of happiness and motivation.
It's lovely to see a community challenge and all the different projects and aspirations. Thank you for hosting it, enchantedsleeper!
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Date: 2024-09-02 11:57 pm (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-09-03 01:19 am (UTC)Project(s): Revamping my personal blog into a more writerly website
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I'd like to reorganize my full-site blog into a website focused on my writing and literary translations, with the blog taking up just one part of the new website. The plan is to modify the theme I'm currently using to be more website-like and recategorize the posts I currently have. It's best done before the blog gets much bigger, so I jumped on this event as an opportunity to get started.
I also want to sort out the roles of my two domain names: I have a domain https://ljwrit.es that currently directs to the About page of the blog, but I plan to make it the main URL while redirecting ljwrites.blog to the blog section of the website. Any requests to the .blog domain will be transferred to the same post on the .es domain for a smooth transition. Yeah I bought two URLs for the same site, I just couldn't resist either of them! >_<
Stretch goal: Consider moving on from Github Pages to a different offering like Netflify, or maybe the VPS I run for my fedi instance. The files are static and can live wherever I can point a URL to, so I have a lot of leeway.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? It was all I knew when I first got online in 1998! I used to have hand-coded fan shrines for Final Fantasy VIII and Disney's Brother Bear (ETA: oh, and a personal website and ttrpg blog, also both defunct). Then things started closing down into social media silos late aughts-ish, and the mass content purges started happening. With all that happening, it's a real pleasure to see the small and indie web flourishing the past few years. I firmly believe everyone who creates stuff to share with others should have their own online space independent of corporate social media, and I love the creativity and freedom of personal websites!
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Date: 2024-09-08 01:05 am (UTC)I'm glad that the timing works out in that way! :D Good luck with your reorganisation, that sounds very cool. (I enjoyed reading your blog post about house cleaning - little and often is what I aspire to as well, so it's nice to read about someone else making that work).
Valid, they're both great URLs xD
Absolutely - the situation with content purges of NSFW stuff is particularly grim, and multiple peeps here have cited it as the reason for building their own spaces, which I think is great and very smart. Even non-corporate social media like Pillowfort can be precarious (their donation situation is currently very hand-to-mouth) and in retrospect, making your own space really is the solution to all of the endless fandom (and non-fandom) migrations - not A Social Network Of Our Own as people keep suggesting. I know it can seem intimidating, of course, but I hope the word continues to spread about how fun and doable it is!
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Date: 2024-09-03 01:43 am (UTC)Project(s): My personal neocities site. Not really in a presentable enough state for me to share the link here tho ^^'
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? Main goals are to archive at least all of my fics for Boueibu Happy Kiss there and make the front page a little less better (right now it is very bare bones stuff + a section of "last updates").
For optional goals: I wanna transfer my fanwork permissions to that site (as well as make a portuguese version of said statement), add a header menu, and possibly also start adding a bit more of "foundation blocks" to other stuff I wanna add later (like, making some mostly blank pages for me to have all/most of the linking between pages I might need already set up, and to have a more clear sense of how much I'll need to add in the future).
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I got into small web I think sometime last year? I saw I handful of people I knew who cared about the idea of having fanworks up in multiple places for archival purposes also had their own personal sites for that stuff. I enjoyed the idea of basically having my little corner of the internet that I have more control of! Plus, I ended up finding out that I think coding stuff is actually pretty cool, haha.
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Date: 2024-09-08 01:14 am (UTC)Same here! Until I came to make my archive, I hadn't worked on anything like it since about 2016, but I remember how engrossing and satisfying it was to tinker with code and make it work. While I originally had planned to just set up my archive on WordPress to save myself some of the heavy lifting, I realised that I did want to code it myself and have the satisfaction of making it all customisable and adding dumb 90s web touches like pixel art and blinkies. Even if it looks less polished as a result xD
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Date: 2024-09-03 05:23 am (UTC)Project(s): Moth Wings and Starlight, a Baldur's Gate 3 fancomic hosted on Neocities. Eventually it's going to be a long-form comic following my Tav, Aelar, after the events of the game but right now I'm still putting out the "Preludes" season, which is a series of one-shots that take place during BG3 itself.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
- small tweaks and reupload two of the pages in prelude 1
- update Characters page to have a small bio of Aelar
- complete sketching the next comic
I'm pretty busy right now, so it's not much but I'm hoping it's manageable.
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Date: 2024-09-03 05:30 am (UTC)- officially launch by the end of the month
- add more personal pages: link hub/where to find me, and portfolio pages (maybe one for general, and one for BG3 fanart)
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Date: 2024-09-03 11:30 am (UTC)Project(s): https://porcelain.neocities.org/; Porcelain, my web home for my creative writing, my doll profiles and pictures, and my makeup pages.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I'm committing to working on my site every morning before work on workdays. I hope to use that time to develop a real homepage and transfer material from my Wordpress blogs to my Neocities site, but more than anything, I want to give my site time and attention every morning.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? I have always had ties to the small web through my Geocities site, Livejournal, Deadjournal, Dreamwidth, and now Neocities. I'm drawn to the creative control you have over your work in these spaces. Right now, HTML interests me most, because I think it's important to be able to "own" every aspect of your webpage and be able to move it wherever you want, whenever you want. Back in the "old days," that kind of creative control was completely taken for granted. Even MySpace gave users a lot of creative freedom over their pages.
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Date: 2024-09-08 02:10 am (UTC)That's an awesome commitment! I would like to do something similar (though I also keep meaning to make time for writing in that way xD), or even just have a weekly slot, which would add up a lot over time. Best of luck with your site work!
Yes, exactly - I was saying this in reply to another user too, that it's weird mentally comparing the mid-00s web that I 'grew up' on to what we have now and remembering how you could use HTML and CSS to customise profiles and pages and make them your own. It was just baked in. And then Facebook et al made the identikit web cool and sites collectively went "well people don't want to do things themselves so let's not bother, everything should look minimalist and the same" and now here we are. *world-weary sigh*
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Date: 2024-09-03 05:24 pm (UTC)Project(s):
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
https://kirk.is/polling/ - yet another quick and dirty "do an online poll for a group", but catered to my peculiar preferences (in terms of ease of setting up and admin stuff etc - it has an admin password but no sense of user accounts...)
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
I already made up a front end (declarative vanilla js) for the editor, and now I just need to make up the other parts - show the poll, record the response, view the responses, remove errant/duplicate responses...
I've been doing indie web for a loooooong time - since the mid-90s when that was all there was on the web, more or less. I pivoted from Perl CGI to PHP so PHP still feels new to me :-D my blog https://kirk.is, I've updated daily for over 20 years, and its CMS is all handrolled PHP. I've made tools for managing my band's sheet music library ( https://chart-o-tron.org ) and I have a small side hustle of websites for "porchfest" (about a dozen of the ones I list on https://porchfest.info/ I do with online signups, admin, and maps) . I also use to make a lot of toys in Process/p5: https://toys.alienbill.com - see especialy https://animals.alienbill.com/
My day job is as a "UI" guy and I'm hopeful people are coming around to how much unneccesary complexity there is in the frontend these days. PHP + vanilla JS or JQuery answer SO many of the questions that you need to code up these days - even without a furtther framework. My sites last for decades and when I go to fix 'em up there's no build process or upgrade that's broken down... things just work
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Date: 2024-09-08 02:30 am (UTC)I enjoyed reading the Lex Friedman podcast transcript on your site that also goes into this and how Pieter sort of accidentally built 'old-skool' sites that kept doing their thing xD I'm very far from being a web developer although I learned PHP around 12 years ago to achieve what I wanted to do with a site I was running, and it worked well for me back then! If it ain't broke (and it does what you need to)...
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Date: 2024-09-04 08:57 pm (UTC)Project(s): https://aviansoph.com/ and https://linkding.aviansoph.com/bookmarks/shared
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? My main site is nothing but a static index page at the moment -- I'd like to get it set up with a tidy and unfussy design and populate it out with a whole bunch of different things, including archiving my fics, podfics, zines, etc, but maybe also including content for other hobby stuff that's less fandom-focused, such as birds and crafting.
For my linkding instance (the service I use for bookmark management), when the next release comes out for linkding, I will be figuring out how to update my install -- because the next release will include the very important feature of being able to customize the shared-bookmarks page for guest viewers, so that I can have it set up to show information in a more useful way!
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it? I've been interested in it since I was a tween on the internet teaching myself html on avidgamers forums! but what finally crystallized my interest in self-hosting was the ongoing news about the shitty organizational practices of ao3 behind the scenes. having nearly all of fandom's fic activity on one single site just isn't good for a robust fannish ecosystem!
and THEN I found out that pinboard's owner had gone down the terf rabbit hole and it became more urgent for me to figure out having my own website, because I wanted to be able to control my own bookmarks, which have been a vital part of my fannish life for like 15 years, first on delicious and then on pinboard.
So I did! I got the linkding instance set up first, and wrangled it into functionality, but now it's time for me to work on expanding the rest of my site!
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Date: 2024-09-09 04:27 am (UTC)(no subject)
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Date: 2024-09-05 08:56 am (UTC)Project(s): actually I would like to translate my shrines, which I wrote in German, into English. I think since the community is very small anyway, it's best to just translate everything. That is definitely my current goal. Because before I start something new, why not make the current pages accessible to everyone?
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? Hmm... Maybe start one of my smaller projects? I love cliques and am already planning the next one haha
Gosh I post it as new entry XD
Re: Finally
Date: 2024-09-09 04:33 am (UTC)What kind of smaller projects have you thought about working on?
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Date: 2024-09-05 01:12 pm (UTC)Project(s): lawrencedane.com - actor fansite
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? i really want to get the image gallery page launched because then the site skeleton will be finished and i'll finally be able to say the site is "complete". i also want/need to migrate webhosts since my current subscription expires in october. the site's been neglected the past few months due to life problems but i think making the time to work on it will help me feel better, so thanks for the external motivation of this event!
stretch goals:
- make progress on uploading the backlog of reviews
- figure out how to make the site more mobile-friendly
- start building personal fanfiction/creative writing archive on a new domain
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Date: 2024-09-09 04:41 am (UTC)You're really welcome! <333 I've needed the external motivation myself xD I hope your web host migration goes smoothly! And good luck with the image gallery page and stretch goals ^^š
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Date: 2024-09-05 09:07 pm (UTC)Project(s): a hopefully user-friendly guide to writing your own rss file that's podcast compatible, for a fannish context. wip here on the squidge fandom resources wiki
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? ideally finish it or at least get it to a useable state!
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
I learned how to html as a bored teen with limited internet (think ten minutes max a day; this was a location/cost limitation) and notepad + geocities. I figured out where websites stored files on our computer because enya's website had an automatic player that would load songs in the background. I guess everything spun out from there!
What I like about it: you can do it yourself, or aspire to. Itās understandable by a single person with reasonable background knowledge. The beauty of a simple html websiteās source is profound.
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Date: 2024-09-09 04:48 am (UTC)Damn, building websites using just ten minutes of internet per day is hardcore! I was really lucky to have a lot more internet time than that ^^; (I think my parents wished they could restrict me to just ten minutes X3) Also, I think that figuring out local file storage for websites thanks to Enya is peak 00s XD
Getting (back) into the small web has given me a whole new appreciation for simple code and HTML/CSS <3 And you really can do so much with it!
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Date: 2024-09-06 10:07 pm (UTC)Project(s): My neocities page, general fanfics
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? Iām hoping to finish up my neocities site revamp (adding in more responsive layouts/templates and having less images clip through the site), my deadline was for the end of August but I didnāt finish up on time, and after that Iām likely planning to either finish up or reupload a bunch of fic ideas/one shots that have been sitting on my hard drive for a bit.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
I kinda got into it after moving off tumblr and checking out smaller sites like pillowfort, but the real answer is that I had already had a neocities page for an currently dormant fandom interest and decided that Iād spruce it up a bit to feature all sorts of different things. Actually, my first foray into this sort of thing wouldāve probably been a bit earlier when an old comic site I used to frequent got bought out and everyone had to scramble to archive everything off it, when I had already seen a bunch of sites go down beforehand and I guess I just forgot about the instability of things that seem stable.
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Date: 2024-09-13 07:30 am (UTC)Ooof, that's really rough - it sucks a whole lot when a place you cared about is suddenly gone one day. Even though I'm all in favour of making backups and archiving things rather than take for granted that they'll stick around, I hate how necessary it is, you know?
Best of luck with the work on your Neocities and potential archiving! š
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Date: 2024-09-07 01:50 pm (UTC)Project(s): My fic archive on Dreamwidth, which I set up last year, but haven't tinkered much with since.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?
- Update the index with FF.Net links
- Add various ficlets I haven't done yet
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
Back in the '90s, I loved building personal websites and fandom websites, on GeoCities and Tripod and similar webhosts. It was so much fun to make something unique and individual and have all the choices completely up to you. I feel like my skills and knowledge are very dated by now, and I like having an interface like Dreamwidth's to do the heavy lifting. But planning how to structure the content is still very appealing to me.
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Date: 2024-09-13 07:44 am (UTC)That makes a lot of sense, and your archive looks really nice! You've got in-built comments and a tagging system that takes care of the fandon 'indexing', but you can still arrange things however you like! I was planning to go a similar route with WordPress before realising that I really wanted to build a dumb static HTML site with blinkies and garish colours xD But I probably would have made more archiving progress by now if I'd used WP or DW š
I hope you have fun continuing to archive and set stuff up! ā¤ļø
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Date: 2024-09-07 08:27 pm (UTC)Project(s): 10001 Nightmares Party, a personal fanfic archive.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS?I want to cross-post all my works from AO3 to 10001 Nightmares! There are almost a hundred of them though, so it's going to take a minute, lol.
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
Basically, I find big, active places/sites to be very 'noisy' for lack of a better word. There's so much Stuff Happening, New Fics Being Posted on AO3, etc., that in a sense it's both a little bit alienating (though that's better when you're in tiny fandoms), and overwhelming. I like it when things are quieter and neatly organized, and I enjoy the opportunity to impose my own color-scheme (literally) on people on my site.
I don't know how I got into the smallweb (ā_ā;) I just like the idea of smaller, quieter, more personal sites :D
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Date: 2024-09-13 07:54 am (UTC)Oooh, I see you're on Ad Astra, CFAA, and SqWA too! I don't have any Star Trek works but I've been enjoying setting up on CFAA, and I have a few things on SquidgeWorld. It's a shame I don't really do DCU as the majority of fics on CFAA are DCU and I don't really know enough to read and comment xD But high-five for other archives! xD
I really feel this, and it's why I love tiny fandoms. Even though you have to adjust to less of the dopamine from Number-Go-Up and Kudos and Comments, the connections can be more meaningful, and you can have more of an impact there and get to know other people in them. And I really like quieter archives for the same reason. The interactions feel so worthwhile!
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Date: 2024-09-11 02:37 am (UTC)Project(s): I think the most likely candidate at the moment is Daybreak, my site for Legolas.
What are you hoping to work on for SWS? I'd like to make a new layout for one of my sites that's in dire need of one! I have a few that have been on old or temporary layouts for a really long timeāmuch longer than I'm comfortable with, so it'd be great if I could sweep off the metaphorical cobwebs a lil by giving one of these sites a fresh look. I'd also like to add some more content to that particular site if time allows, even if it's just a basic introduction to the subject.
Unfortunately, when it comes to creative projects, I'm the sort of person who tends to work only when inspired, LOL! Right now, with season two of The Rings of Power currently airing, I can see myself maybe? hopefully? creating a new layout for my Legolas site. I'd love to expand the site into a small character shrine for him one day, so part of that is having a layout that I'm actually happy with. But if it ends up being an altogether different site that gets a makeover (which tends to happen a lot with me), I'm okay with that, too!
What interests you about the small/indie web, and how did you learn about or get into it?
I've been making sites since around 2003! I first learned HTML/CSS through Neopets, and then discovered fansites and fanlistings shortly after. Even though there have been times in my life when I didn't touch my sites very much, I've never really left this hobby, and I always find my way back to it. Creating a site is just another form of personal expressionālike art or any other craftāand I love seeing the way people's creativity and personalities shine through in the things they make. ā”
It's so nice to see this kind of small community around in this age of heavy social media, and I'm looking forward to seeing what everyone else creates! Thank you for organizing this event. ā” (And apologies for being late to the party! š¢)
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Date: 2024-09-13 07:59 am (UTC)It's my pleasure - and you're not late! The party can be joined whenever :D