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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 02:06 pm (UTC)Project(s): Oh, yikes, way too many WIPs right now! š 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: 2024-09-01 02:10 pm (UTC)no subject
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: 2024-09-01 02:27 pm (UTC)Also, good luck to you on building your fansite! It sounds awesome.
Excited to make stuff!
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: 2024-09-01 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 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: 2024-09-01 05:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-01 06:38 pm (UTC)no subject
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 07:33 pm (UTC)Yay for friendship bracelets ā„ This is the only page on my craft archive that's currently up to date and there's something so satisfying in scrolling through all these colors...
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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 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: 2024-09-01 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: 2024-09-01 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: 2024-09-01 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: 2024-09-01 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: 2024-09-02 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: 2024-09-02 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: 2024-09-02 12:54 am (UTC)The one person I know who has comments set up on their personal fic archive is gekidasa (example here if you scroll down to the bottom), and I remember them posting about what they used on Mastodon, but I'm not sure whether I saved the posts, or how easy it would be to implement myself, so it's good to have options xD
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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 šŖ
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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: 2024-09-02 02:15 am (UTC)Thank you so much, and good luck to you as well!! And okay, so confessionāit turns out that I actually made my website months before the Tumblr post I mentioned (though I did find out about it through Tumblr....somehow), as I found out when I went through my blog history and figured out exactly when I made it, but it was this Tumblr post that got me REALLY into the whole "make a website" thing because of the manifestos linked on it. I went from "messing around with" to "treating it like an actual project of my own", so to speak! x)
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Date: 2024-09-02 04:38 am (UTC)The wording seems vaguely familiar enough that I *might* have come across it in my initial "web 1.0 travels" on Tumblr, but if I did, I didn't save it, so I wouldn't have had a hope in hell of finding it again.
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Date: 2024-09-02 05:31 am (UTC)I'm super curious as to what this is! š
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!