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i made my neocities account and opened the website template several months ago, but i never actually started on HTML until 4/8/2025. i got inspired to start learning from melonking's thoughts on the web revival.
i've made a lot of progress today!
- before i forget, i found out something that could be helpful for those learning to code as well. if you use a img tag to add a image to your site, if it's not a .jpg image the code will get confused. i found that it still worked even not as a jpg but if you don't want the code to get mad at you make sure it's jpg! my friend figured this out for me so props to him!
- this website is a free image converter! use it if you need.
- yesterday and today i've gotten a good feel for simple html tags like lists, embedded links, and paragraphs. i'm sketching out ideas for how i want my website to look, and while it's a bit lofty, i'll be starting small!
- css is still very intimidating to me, but i'm giving myself some grace considering i literally started yesterday. i want to get a good hold on html before moving on to css- even if my website won't be pretty for a minute.
- i've been a bit aimless- i'm learning some tags like dividers and some basic css (this page is green right now!) but i'm unsure what steps to take. i didn't think css was so entwined with html, so i'm learning some of it earlier than i thought. i should put my css in an external file before i learn any more, i don't want things to get confusing.
- i think i want to set a goal of learning 1-3 html tags a day. w3schools has a tag library, and i can just pick out some each day to try them out. hopefully that works out alright.
- we'll see what happens i guess! i'm gonna go make that css file (edit: whys my file not doing its job T-T)
- ok this external css file is pissing me off
- like im def writing this code, and i'm pretty damn sure i'm writing it correctly. but it's just not going through!! maybe it's an issue with the linking? but i made a whole new .css file and it still shows the same stuff the old one did!
- well it's just the start of the day. i'll give updates :)
- update, i got impatient. putting internal css in style tags works just fine, but i think that it won't be super sustainable. but at least my sites are a pretty green. working on it
- i haven't made too much progress lately, school's been kicking my ass and when i'm bored i only really have the headspace for drawing. rightttt i should make a drawings page!
- so for now i'm taking a short hiatus while i get my shit together. wish me luck!!
- hello! i have not come back from hiatus yet, as school continues to kick my ass. three more weeks and i am let out of my cage for a whole ten weeks before i am unceremoniously dragged back in, kicking and screaming, so in those three weeks before my blissful freedom i am just trying to survive.
- i will be working on a goals list for the summer, though. i have a ton of plans for the summer so i'll keep them more conservative (perhaps i'll make a page about how much i hate gay people) to fit in my other hobbies.
- but i will hopefully come back to my silly little US education system cage with a handcrafted silly website i can vomit my thoughts into.
- i'm finally back! school has chewed me up and spat me out, but at least i have deltarune.
- my plans for the summer aren't concrete yet, but i'm very hopeful for my progress. i have some ideas to make a pretty homepage, a deltarune webshrine, and a literal webgarden.
- so today i dive back in earnest into my silly little website. wish me luck!!!
- update!! my css external file is working!! yippee!! yay!!
- OMG MY SITE HAS ACTUAL DIVIDERS NOW!! swiftyhq's site on website layouts has helped so so much with this. my site still looks very simplistic, but so so much better than before!!! yay!!!
- THIS GODDAMN IMAGE WON'T MOVE
- i swear to god i'm trying to do SIMPLE DECORATION by moving a bunch of images around to frame my website but nothing is moving T-T what the fuck is absolute and fixed and relative position??? why do i need to make a parent div just to move around one image of clippy
- i will perservere however difficult it is but like why is this so hard
- ok i found a way to move it, but i'm still working on how to make it overlap. updating soon!
- i think i'm almost there- i want to ensure all of my css is in an external file, but it feels like i'm untangling necklaces of code. godspeed
- ARGH the css isn't doing what i want and i think the only thing thatll work rn is keeping it in the html file. hopefully sometime when im better at coding ill figure out how to separate all my css but in the meantime ill make lots of notes as to where my css is so things are organized
- alright, i finally figured out how to move images freely around! still haven't figured out why the css has to stay internal though. this response from stackoverflow has finally made it work for me! make a separate div for your images and you can move them how you like. make sure that all of your image divs are separate from each other, though! otherwise they won't act independently of each other.
- this website is also helpful for getting image dimensions instantly. just pop an image in :) also, use a ratio calculator is you want to resize the image while still keeping its dimensions.
- ok now that i've learned how to move and create images ive been going kinda hammy with it
- this is what my site looks like now :] kinda funky looking. some of this stuff is stuff i took from pinterest, and some of it is my own photos & drawings.
- what i plan on doing, when i can get my grubby hands on a mouse and pick up blender and thus 3D modeling again, is making some of my own models for my site instead of just stealing ha4to's kitty cat models.
- my code's kind of chaotic though, with all of the images. maybe there's a way to hide it?
- fuckkk i messed with the css bc some stuff was duplicated and now things are different T.T i shouldn't have done that.
- i'll handle that tomorrow or something, its midnight right now and all i want to do is other silly, less difficult code
- ok yeah im dealing with my poor decisionmaking tomorrow.
- hi its tomorrow and i have no clue what im doing
- i am now using 0.1 percent of my 1GB storage. i think that's cause for celebration!
- i think i'm gonna make a deltarune webshrine + blog to rant into and decorate! my friends on instagram want a recipe page but fuck them i'll do it later. right now the silly game is consuming my soul and i'll have it no other way.
- so i'll update progress on that as i go along!
- i also want to find a way to display the most recent progress journal entries on my main page. i've seen other sites do it but i don't know how.. i'll check later!
- a nice thing about coding is that when you're learning it, the internet has an answer to pretty much any question you'd have. if i have a random ass problem or weird ass request, some fellow nerd on stackoverflow or something has the code snippet i need! it just takes some digging.
- big overhauls are being made to the site!!
- this is important advice. remember it. KEEP TRACK OF YOUR DIV TAGS. add html comments, do a shit ton of indenting, doesn't matter how, losing track of your div tags sucks absolute ass. don't be me
