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saxbrightwell) wrote2025-03-21 06:06 pm
saxbrightwell) wrote2025-03-21 06:06 pm
Entry tags:
Doing Web Design Like It's 1999
I was starting to feel like a neurotic sheepdog trying to wrangle all of my links related to my Online PresenceTM, so I tried Linktree, and it had the audacity to inflict a wiggling popup ad for itself upon my eyes! Right through uBlock Origin!
Disgusted, I considered the preformatted layout it set me up with, and decided I could code a serviceable replacement using my tiny fistful of understanding of HTML and my ability to search for how to use CSS. I'm not great at working through whole "courses" on this stuff; I do better picking a goal of one task at a time and hunting down how to do that one thing.
I may also have been influenced by my meditations in my previous post, about the ultimate backline if queer/explicit ebooks are made impossible to sell anywhere and AO3 falls: a plain old personal website where I give away my ebooks for free. This is not that, but I am confident that if I had to I could make that, in an ugly but functional fashion, without much trouble.
I can't find information anywhere about where Neocities' servers are in the world, so they're probably in the USA. But it's also so enthusiastically designed to teach DIY rock-bottom-basic HTML and CSS that you end up with documents you can in fact download and then reupload elsewhere. So I feel better about messing around learning to create other pages there than most other places.
Anyway here it is, not so much a webbed site as a list of my links that doesn't make me puke. Oh and it finally let me verify myself on Mastodon!
I'll get back to book 5 soon, I swear. In a certain light this is PART of working on my books: making plans for how to continue my storytelling even if things get really bad.
Disgusted, I considered the preformatted layout it set me up with, and decided I could code a serviceable replacement using my tiny fistful of understanding of HTML and my ability to search for how to use CSS. I'm not great at working through whole "courses" on this stuff; I do better picking a goal of one task at a time and hunting down how to do that one thing.
I may also have been influenced by my meditations in my previous post, about the ultimate backline if queer/explicit ebooks are made impossible to sell anywhere and AO3 falls: a plain old personal website where I give away my ebooks for free. This is not that, but I am confident that if I had to I could make that, in an ugly but functional fashion, without much trouble.
I can't find information anywhere about where Neocities' servers are in the world, so they're probably in the USA. But it's also so enthusiastically designed to teach DIY rock-bottom-basic HTML and CSS that you end up with documents you can in fact download and then reupload elsewhere. So I feel better about messing around learning to create other pages there than most other places.
Anyway here it is, not so much a webbed site as a list of my links that doesn't make me puke. Oh and it finally let me verify myself on Mastodon!
I'll get back to book 5 soon, I swear. In a certain light this is PART of working on my books: making plans for how to continue my storytelling even if things get really bad.