Smallweb Chatter Post

[kalloway]

What's up, smallweb?

This is an open post to talk about what you're working on, what you'd like to show off, cool resources, things that maybe aren't working so well, etc.

Comments

[kalloway]

If it's been awhile since I made a Chatter Post, it's okay to poke me about it! ^^;;

Other than that, I have mostly been doing different hobbies but want to start cycling back into archiving my writing. I definitely needed the break, though.

[althea_valara]

I haven't been working on my Neocities site, alas... hoping to find some time soon. But really, I'm commenting because I'm messing around with learning Python and the training I'm using suggested the Phoenix Code text editor and WHOA. I just installed the thing today so haven't played around with it much, but apparently if you're using it for HTML, it will give you a preview of your code's render in another pane and you can click on elements in that pane to be taken to the line of code which I thought was WAY COOL. I'm not sure how useful this will be for me since I am using Jekyll on my Neocities site so am not really writing true HTML, but still, I think the editor will have some nice features over my usual Notepad++.

[tempural]

ooh gotta play with that, thanks for the rec! Clickable elements sounds so useful.

edit: just downloaded it and opened it, do you know how exactly do you click on those panels? Can't find how to do it in the docs on the site.

[althea_valara]

I'm on Windows 11, first of all, so I don't know if it's different on another OS... but I just opened the default project it came with, which is a pretty simple webpage. The screenshot below shows that project, and you can see on the right-hand pane the live preview of the code. In the middle of the live preview, it says to "click here to locate this <span> in the HTML", and sure enough, when I clicked on the span in the right-hand pane, it brought me to the line of code on the left-hand pane.

I haven't tried my own project out yet, so I don't know if it acts differently with your own projects.

[tempural]

Ah, I was trying it on my own project, with the desktop version rather than the web version. The click for locating HTML works on the web version! Can't seem to get it to work in the desktop version :P Still, a good recommendation for people who may want to code in-browser!

[grayestofghosts]

I've (mostly) made a minizine about some experiences on the early web and why I like small web stuff right now and was having a small crisis about what info to put on it to reach me/what to call myself but I think I've mostly sorted it out? It's not quite done yet, I still want to add some finishing touches. I guess it's not entirely small web because I do want to put it pay-what-you-want on my ko-fi but will also have the PDF available for download on my neocities.

I added a couple posts on Frankenstein to my essays and analysis page that are things I saved from tumblr because I am concerned about the website's future. I kind of want to name the page something snappier than 'essays and analysis' but alas when it comes to publication I really really think my problem is perfect being the enemy of good, etc.

[axolotls]

I finally get to do website stuff as early as next week (Soon™)! I had an idea for a Muse Dash page where I showcase all my gold S's, cause currently the screenshots are scattered across several Discord DMs and servers lol. Not sure if I want to keep the screenshots as evidence, or just have the data displayed nicely using less bandwidth... I'd love to have little chibis of which character I played with next to the score and date, all in the game's UI style.

Making websites really does feel like digital scrapbooking hah, and easily shareable!

[starfleetbrat]

I've been working on my neocities site a little. I swapped my sidebar nav for a top nav with drop downs and I'm overall a lot happier with that.

been having a few of those moments though where I want to pull my hair out.

Something that was working on one page, did not on another even when I copy and pasted the code. still haven't figured that one out. its probably something small and stupid though lol

And I had a moment where my gitignore file stopped working - its something that has worked for six months without me making any changes, and then it started ignoring my CSS folder all of a sudden. I couldn't figure out why, tried so many things to resolve it, did many google searches looking for a solution. In the end, it turned out to be a root folder in the gitignore file, so I removed it and it started syncing the css folder again, but that root folder had been there for six months and IT WORKED FINE that whole time so why did it suddenly stop last night?????? Welcome to Unsolved Mysteries of the Universe.

Anyway, here are two resources I came across that are cool:

LoveBerry's CSS text effect page:
https://loveberry.nekoweb.org/resources/text
it has examples of the effect, and the code with no long explanations to read through. So good.

PetraPixel's layout generator:
https://petrapixel.neocities.org/layout-generator/
Easily generate a simple responsive css flex layout to your specifications. Handy if you just want to save a few minutes, or if you are new to flex/html/css and want to see how it all works together.

I'd actually recommend her whole coding site. Lots of guides and tutorials from beginner to advanced. Study guides, cheat sheets, code snippets etc.
https://petrapixel.neocities.org/coding/need-help

[mekare]

Thank you for sharing these resources! I am slowly working on making my site responsive, but I have lot to learn.

[lumiosecity]

I've been looking for PetraPixel's site; I came across it ages ago and while the lessons stuck in my brain, the name, alas, did not. Thank you for sharing!

[stepnix]

There's an RPG Maker jam in its voting period, so I have new freeware to show off! Copper Knight is very good

[tre.praze.net]

Slowly starting to redesign my site a bit so the navigation is hopefully easier to handle. I've written some code to generate a couple of new RSS feeds and some more code that displays the latest item from each of them on my site's index page, so it's a live tracker of what I'm up to (inspired by things like status.cafe).

Also worked out how to sign into dw using my site via openid so after a bit of a break from non-anonymous interaction here, I can comment in comms like this one again.

[linky]

I've recently applied to some new webrings and cliques + listings, as well as updated site buttons and links, added more stamps, and fixed up my old testimonials page. I also added graphics I've won from fandom challenges onto the site some time ago. Along with the usual crossposting of fics too.

[tre.praze.net]

Oh the fandom challenge graphics page is a nice idea! Reminds me I have something similar on my site that I haven't updated in forever … that might encourage me to actually do some fandom challenges hmm …

[linky]

Thanks! I thought it would be a nice way to display them somewhere outside of just only my DW profile.

Best of luck with working on that page if you decide to do it! :D