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smallwebWooooah, we’re halfway there,
Wooo-ooah! (Lemon on a pe-ear!)
*ahem* We’re at the halfway point for Small Web September already!
If you’re wondering where the heck last two weeks went, you’re not alone – but don’t despair. There’s still loads of time for small webbing!
This is our ‘How’s it going?’ halfway point check-in, where you can share your SWS progress if you’d like to and compare notes with your goals at the beginning of the challenge. Has anything unexpected come up as you’ve worked on your small web project(s)? Are you focusing on the things you thought you would, or have you found some new side quests to go on?
Here are a couple of question prompts you can use for this check-in:
• What have you been working on so far for SWS?
• Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
• What are you looking to work on next?
As a reminder, this is the third of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates for these posts in the event intro post. There’s no cut-off point for leaving comments on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
To find our last check-in post and browse through all of the awesome resources and recs, go here: Small Web September Check-In 2: Recs and Resources
Wooo-ooah! (Lemon on a pe-ear!)
*ahem* We’re at the halfway point for Small Web September already!
If you’re wondering where the heck last two weeks went, you’re not alone – but don’t despair. There’s still loads of time for small webbing!
This is our ‘How’s it going?’ halfway point check-in, where you can share your SWS progress if you’d like to and compare notes with your goals at the beginning of the challenge. Has anything unexpected come up as you’ve worked on your small web project(s)? Are you focusing on the things you thought you would, or have you found some new side quests to go on?
Here are a couple of question prompts you can use for this check-in:
• What have you been working on so far for SWS?
• Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
• What are you looking to work on next?
As a reminder, this is the third of five ‘check-in’/comment points that will be published during the event – you can check out the schedule and dates for these posts in the event intro post. There’s no cut-off point for leaving comments on these, so you can add something at any time – you also don’t need to comment on every one or do them in order! The themes are a loose guide, but all discussion is welcome.
To find our last check-in post and browse through all of the awesome resources and recs, go here: Small Web September Check-In 2: Recs and Resources
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Date: 2024-09-14 10:36 pm (UTC)I've done nothing on the latter, but I have actually made some very small progress on the archive, I have almost finished designing the css template for the fanfic pages and have started on the index page's css. Its getting there. Slowly. But progress is progress, right?
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Date: 2024-09-14 10:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-14 11:05 pm (UTC)• What have you been working on so far for SWS?
I made a exchange letter page LOL. One for myself, and a blank template if anyone else wants to use it.
By making the page, I kinda figured out how to make a mobile dropdown menu, using the checkbox hack. But then I realized the checkbox hack doesn't allow you to click out of the menu, which is very annoying on mobile. So I just copied some code from w3schools for a javascript dropdown :P
I also switched to VSCodium instead of VScode for writing html/css, so maybe microsoft won't track my movements and all the yaoi i've been typing.
• Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
I am totally procrastinating on updating Fujofans. I'm making smaller pages right now cuz it's easier to focus on making small new things. Woops!
• What are you looking to work on next?
I've been typing out my ship-specific exchange letters in markdown [example with he-man and skeletor lol], and actually that might do as its own page to send people to! But I could also make individual pages for each ship... hmm.... that way i can also add images if someone needs to look at the characters and interactions for inspo.
Still want to clean up my writing page. The display is a bit thick for my liking, sort of just want them in a list. Though I do like the summary view and to see if it's gen, no fandom, or explicit. Gotta figure out how to make it easier on my own eyes! Then to fix the actual fics, really want it to be barebones with no menu so people can focus on the writing, but I still want the ability to change color schemes and possibly fonts? Will maybe make a template for that later :D
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Date: 2024-09-14 11:06 pm (UTC)Oooh I'd like to see how you style your fic pages!
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Date: 2024-09-14 11:23 pm (UTC)What have you been working on so far for SWS?
I have a changelog on my website now so it's really easy to point to exactly what I've done :)
Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
My goals were pretty much "work on my website" and I've been doing that!! almost every day sees me making further updates!
What are you looking to work on next?
Currently I'm working on putting together a page listing all the books I've read in the years since I started keeping track in 2009. Formatting these endless lists is a pain but I will get there eventually. and I have a list of other changes/updates I want to make as well. always more to do!
I also need to loop back around to my linkding instance. I think I mentioned at the beginning of SWS that there were some exciting new updates committed so I was looking forward to whenever the next version would be released -- and it got released this week! So now I need to figure out how to successfully update my instance to the newest release. I've done it once before so presumably I can do it again but it does intimidate me a bit lol.
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Date: 2024-09-14 11:44 pm (UTC)What have you been working on so far for SWS?
Learning very quickly that I do not have the skill set to scrounge up a webpage from scratch, for one. Right now I’m using a template from sadgrl.online’s layout builder to fiddle about, but I’m not sure if I’m satisfied with it— I’m going to poke around and look at templates and see what I can come up with.
I am also beating my stylesheet with a mallet. I cannot fathom the concept as well as I’d like, and I have spent the better half of a week arguing with the process of making it work, which it still doesn’t. This, of course, is entirely my fault because I know next to nothing about CSS and even though I’m knee-deep in resources, I’m not a particularly fast learner.
It’s been fantastic, and I do mean that genuinely. Frustrating, of course, but fantastic.
Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
My main goal was to have something vaguely resembling a website at the end of this, which I am steadily chipping away at. I did not expect to go to war with my stylesheet though— I’ve only done inline CSS in the past and was kind of hoping I could brute force my way through a website without rigging up a stylesheet at all.
It would be awful and tedious to do that for each individual page, though, if my stylesheet has taught me anything.
What are you looking to work on next?
I want to figure out the basics of a template and stylesheet, as previously discussed, and then I want to fill out my index page some, make it look like a proper home instead of having globs of lorem ipsum all over the couch cushions.
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Date: 2024-09-15 12:29 am (UTC)• code my bestie's poetry website ⭕
• update my page to be mobile friendly ✅
• ??? ✅
I wasn't sure exactly what else I would work on this month but it turned out to be a lot! I updated my doll page (and made a profile/story archive, which included character- and world- building creative work), added an icon gallery, reformatted the crafts gallery, and added writing prompts. (I've also added a change log to keep track of all this.)
Also, I know I complained that the template I used looked too "corporate," so I went in and changed the Facebook-y blue to a nice pink for my personal site and even copied the template over with a sea green for my poetry site.
I'm quite pleased with the progress I've made so far on all of this, honestly!
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Date: 2024-09-15 12:50 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-09-15 01:55 am (UTC)I finished 4 shoujo manga reviews and my Silver Millennium Fanon page. I'm also mostly finished with the second volume of my sailor moon chapter reviews. (Note: my site is 18+ for discussions of sex and some swearing.)
Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
I started out focused on my goals before falling off a bit. I decided to change the layout on the sailor moon chapter reviews and I redid the layout on another site I'm working on. That's done now though so I'm hoping I'll be able to finish my chapter reviews in the next couple of days.
What are you looking to work on next?
Finish the chapter reviews but I'm not sure after that. I may do some more shoujo manga reviews or I may work on a links page for either of my sites.
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Date: 2024-09-15 03:34 am (UTC)Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different? I ended up getting really, REALLY focused on the resources over everything else.
What are you looking to work on next? I'd /like/ to start actually writing the more fun subjective bits, but I know damn well I'm going to get caught up in finishing moving my story resources master list from google sheets onto this site. (I'm a quarter of the way done, judging by line counts in the spreadsheet...)
Originally I had wanted to find some kind of converter to make moving that over easier on myself, but I quickly realized that the format I wanted was too different, since 1. I started it before I started reading the story, and 2. I'm no longer constrained by the confines of google sheets!! I can put multiple links in one table cell!! I can put images in a table cell and have it not look awful!!
I've actually got a pretty extensive to-do list at this point, but I'm just taking it one at a time as I feel like it. (And a lot of the list items are just me finishing something halfway and then breaking down whats left of it, heh.)
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Date: 2024-09-15 04:41 am (UTC)Glad you found it useful! I love searching codepen for stuff like "Table of contents" and seeing if anyone's done something specific... like the highlighting! :D
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Date: 2024-09-15 04:45 am (UTC)What have you been working on so far for SWS?
As mentioned last time, I published a documentation site for (R·D·F) terms which I am liable to use, in the interest of my actually using them. I was hoping to spend this week developing a means of “profiling” the vocabulary into useful chunks, but instead I got side·tracked working on documentation for Semantically‐Interlinked Online Communities (S·I·O·C) (which is kinda big and I accordingly haven’t finished yet). I’ve also been trying to take it a bit easier this week so I haven’t been working as hard.
Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
I’m mostly focused on the same things I outlined in my goals, but I may spend more time here and less time there, so to speak. Getting this technical infrastructure and documentation to a good place is very important to me, probably more·so than any single application there·of down the road.
What are you looking to work on next?
I just updated my build system to more easily support the multistage approach I’ve been using on this site, which means I now probably need to update the site to leverage that approach over its existing one. There are also a small number of bugs in both places that I need to spend some time to fix. The big thing I’m wanting to work on, tho, is support for developing vocabulary profiles.
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Date: 2024-09-15 04:49 am (UTC)oooh your doll page looks so cool! I'm inspired to change up my characters page to be so clean looking. Thank god for w3's templates :D
The front page of your site is a little funny looking on mobile? Here's a screenshot: https://images.squidge.org/images/2024/09/14/imagee9a2d2fcc24eadee.png
The menu isn't visible, and clicking on Pine Island doesn't seem to do anything? 🤔 There's also some text in the resources section that overflows onto the right side for me.
Overall I like the clean look you have! I also have the fear of my stuff looking too "corporate" but having the splashes of colors really helps.
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Date: 2024-09-15 04:52 am (UTC)Ayy your fan site looks great. I love the information sections you have, especially how to optimally install the game and the resources + "other media". Really inspiring, there's lots of "dead" games that aren't so easy to find out how to play, and it's good to see how your game is set up to work!
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Date: 2024-09-15 05:13 am (UTC)What have you been working on so far for SWS?
I'm really excited to finally be working on the fanshrine I've been meaning to do for about a year now. My vision turned out to be a lot easier to make reality than I feared. I'm still working on making content for it, but I'm excited to share it in the future. I've been devoting almost all of my freetime to this :^p
Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
My original goal was just to finish my new book log, but since I finished all the entries last week I've been working a few different things. I started the fanshrine of course. But I also recently realized that while my desktop screen is at 100% scale my laptop is at 125% scale, so some of the precision work on my website is off.... I completely forgot this was a thing and have been tweaking some things so that it's not egregious. Oh, I also told myself I was not going to reformat my character pages into CSS Grid, but I ended up doing that too, lol. I want to redo the game recs page with grids now too.
So my new goals are: finish manifesto, fix responsiveness where I can, redo game recs.
What are you looking to work on next?
After these goals, & hopefully as a grand finale to SWS, it will be finally pushing everything onto neocities. I'm not uploading as I go because I messed with a lot of paths and style sheets. Once it's up I'll have to go around and look for broken links and images too, c'est la vie.
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Date: 2024-09-15 06:42 am (UTC)I'm looking forward to finishing the archiving for this specific fandom, and after that making my home page a bit more presentable! (And hopefully I'll have time for my optional goals as well!)
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Date: 2024-09-15 07:34 am (UTC)I was doing a fanfic archive but I kinda finished that in week one lmao. The light mode was my bonus goal and that's that finally added (though I may fiddle with it some more but it may involve fiddling more site wide)
I'm going to see if I can make a page of just tags and have the list auto-update as tags are added. That feels like smth astro SHOULD be able to do but guess I can report back next week. I did find a tutorial for adding a search which I don't think is going to work for what I want it to do but I'm gonna give it a try regardless.
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Date: 2024-09-15 11:41 am (UTC)What I'm doing:
- archiving original fic and fanfic from the last 20+ years
-- priorities are the original fic that's on an old site
--- because I've lost contact with the host (friend, hopefully okay and just busy)
-- and fic off my hard drive that isn't anywhere else or on random communities
--- because I'd like it to be easier to find
Once original fic from old site + stuff on hard drive is all on both Neocities and my DW fic comm, I'll start on what's on AO3. Without ranting, I can at least say that I expect AO3 to be there next year and I can worry about those words later.
I recognize that I could be doing more sorting and organizing now, but I suspect it'll be easier once everything is in one place and I can look at it all before deciding how I want to list things.
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Date: 2024-09-15 11:59 am (UTC)I barely got anything yet, but I'm glad I started and I'm more motivated now ^^
While looking for inspo/other websites I noticed TFL is still updated and new fanlistings get made even today, so that was a nice surprise, I even saw a few for obscure-ish games/characters.
I think when I give my main page a makeover I will try for a bit to get my own domain/hosting, been wanting to do it for awhile and now I want to make my own fanslistings and webrings haha...
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Date: 2024-09-15 02:09 pm (UTC)What exactly are you having trouble with? In-line CSS and CSS files follow the same rules/tags 🤔
Stylesheets is pretty much simply giving names to your divs/boxes. Instead of telling how a div has to look directly on the HTML, you write "div class=cool" and then writte down on the stylesheet how ".cool" has to look.
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Date: 2024-09-15 02:29 pm (UTC)I've been looking at all my archives objectively. They are all based on the same template I created years ago so once I have decided on any changes I can make them across the whole set.
Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
I still want to reduce the file counts dramatically but I spent time this week looking at CSS GRID to see if that could be used to resolve some issues with making the site more mobile friendly. I need to set up a mini-project for myself to have go without actually affecting the current websites.
What are you looking to work on next?
I need to check out some of the Coppermine plug-ins to see which will help with making that software mobile friendly.
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Date: 2024-09-15 02:47 pm (UTC)Mostly, though, I’m beating it with a mallet in the sense of “okay, 2px borders— that doesn’t look right, never mind” or “alright, add this color here— oh, jeez, that’s way more green than it is blue”; I’ve got a decently clear vision of how I’d like this to look but the execution is a little fiddly.
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Date: 2024-09-15 03:33 pm (UTC)What have you been working on so far for SWS?
Finishing up and uploading my late summer update/folder rehaul to neocities, which I did! It’s got a few errors in terms of case sensitivity though, so I’ll be working on fixing that when I can. My break is over so it’s probably not gonna be anytime soon though.
Here’s the link: https://beetmint.neocities.org/
Are you focused on the same things you outlined in your goals, or have you found yourself doing something different?
I’ve pretty much been sticking to my plan of “finding nice templates so I can put down text and images” but I still find myself struggling when I end up breaking the text due to my lack of skills, most of it’s kinda just like glued together and a lot of duct tape. Hopes and dreams. I’m considering maybe finding a different fic template than the one I currently have since it’s basically permanently set to dark mode.
What are you looking to work on next?
I’m thinking that I’m probably not going to finish up like, hunting down every single fic and outline/idea thing from years within the span of the month and finish up all of them so I’m gonna make that like a long term winter project. I kinda got way more into just making ideas than actual fics but that’s kind of my writing nature, great at having ideas but not so much at actually executing them in a timely manner or readable way. As for other ideas, maybe I’ll make a music album page or something? Haven’t really considered what’s next for the site outside of the fanfic stuff.
In between my site update however a social media site I used to frequent and post on a lot announced it was shutting down in October, so I’m working on essentially recreating the pages for my neocities page as a sort of tribute. I really wish it wasn’t going.
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Date: 2024-09-15 04:16 pm (UTC)Some browsers are picky on how you link the fonts, so I always like to put them between qotation marks, both the font name and its source link.
On weights, every font should accept the usual "bold" and "lighter" variables, but if you want to give it a specific weight (300/700/etc) I'm pretty sure you have to download and add its weights as separate fonts (if said font has them avaible).
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Date: 2024-09-15 04:59 pm (UTC)I didn't know about VSCodium, thank you for the rec! \o/
It looks so good, though! It's really easy to see the details of each work at a glance - and it's visually interesting, too, but without being busy. The pull-quote style summary is particularly nice.