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 – be it fandom, fellow budding webmasters, graphic sites of old or the shrine community – 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 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 – be it fandom, fellow budding webmasters, graphic sites of old or the shrine community – 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!