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i have assignments that are overdue(!!) and am I doing them?
no!!
im using my own fanfic wips to teach myself javascript!!
beginner’s guide to the indie web
“i miss the old internet” “we’ll never have websites like the ones from the 90s and early 2000s ever again” “i’m tired of social media but there’s nowhere to go”
HOLD ON!
personal websites and indie web development still very much exist! it may be out of the way to access and may not be the default internet experience anymore, but if you want to look and read through someone’s personally crafted site, or even make your own, you can still do it! here’s how:
use NEOCITIES! neocities has a built in search and browse tools to let you discover websites, and most importantly, lets you build your own website from scratch for free! (there are other ways to host websites for free, but neocities is a really good hub for beginners!)
need help getting started with coding your website? sadgrl online has a section on her website dedicated to providing resources for newbie webmasters!
HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are the core of what all websites are built on. many websites also use JS (JavaScript) to add interactive elements to their pages. w3schools is a useful directory of quick reference for pretty much every HTML/CSS/JS topic you can think of.
there is also this well written and lengthy guide on dragonfly cave that will put you step by step through the basics of HTML/CSS (what webpages are made from), if that’s your sort of thing!
stack overflow is every programmer’s hub for asking questions and getting help, so if you’re struggling with getting something to look how you want or can’t fix a bug, you may be able to get your answer here! you can even ask if no one’s asked the same question before.
websites like codepen and jsfiddle let you test HTML/CSS/JS in your browser as you tinker with small edits and bugfixing.
want to find indie websites outside the scope of neocities? use the search engine marginalia to find results you actually want that google won’t show you!
you can also use directory sites like yesterweb’s link section to find websites in all sorts of places.
if you are going to browse the indie web or make your own website, i also have some more personal tips as a webmaster myself (i am not an expert and i am just a small hobbyist, so take me with a grain of salt!)
if you are making your own site:
get expressive! truly make whatever you want! customize your corner of the internet to your heart’s content! you have left the constrains of social media where every page looks the same. you have no character limit, image limit, or design limit. want to make an entire page or even a whole website dedicated to your one niche interest that no one seems to be into but you? go for it! want to keep a public journal where you can express your thoughts without worry? do it! want to keep an art gallery that looks exactly how you want? heck yeah! you are free now! you will enjoy the indie web so much more if you actually use it for the things you can’t do on websites like twitter, instead of just using it as a carrd bio alternative or a place to dump nostalgic geocities gifs.
don’t overwhelm yourself! if you’ve never worked with HTML/CSS or JS before, it may look really intimidating. start slow, use some guides, and don’t bite off more than you can chew. even if your site doesn’t look how you want quite yet, be proud of your work! you’re learning a skill that most people don’t have or care to have, and that’s pretty cool.
keep a personal copy of your website downloaded to your computer and don’t just edit it on neocities (or your host of choice) and call it a day. if for some reason your host were to ever go down, you would lose all your hard work! and besides, by editing locally and offline, you can use editors like vscode (very robust) or notepad++ (on the simpler side), which have more features and is more intuitive than editing a site in-browser.
you can use ctrl+shift+i on most browsers to inspect the HTML/CSS and other components of the website you’re currently viewing. it’ll even notify you of errors! this is useful for bugfixing your own site if you have a problem, as well as looking at the code of sites you like and learning from it. don’t use this to steal other people’s code! it would be like art theft to just copy/paste an entire website layout. learn, don’t steal.
don’t hotlink images from other sites, unless the resource you’re taking from says it’s okay! it’s common courtesy to download images and host them on your own site instead of linking to someone else’s site to display them. by hotlinking, every time someone views your site, you’re taking up someone else’s bandwidth.
if you want to make your website easily editable in the future (or even for it to have multiple themes), you will find it useful to not use inline CSS (putting CSS in your HTML document, which holds your website’s content) and instead put it in a separate CSS file. this way, you can also use the same theme for multiple pages on your site by simply linking the CSS file to it. if this sounds overwhelming or foreign to you, don’t sweat it, but if you are interested in the difference between inline CSS and using separate stylesheets, w3schools has a useful, quick guide on the subject.
visit other people’s sites sometimes! you may gain new ideas or find links to more cool websites or resources just by browsing.
if you are browsing sites:
if the page you’re viewing has a guestbook or cbox and you enjoyed looking at the site, leave a comment! there is nothing better as a webmaster than for someone to take the time to even just say “love your site” in their guestbook.
that being said, if there’s something on a website you don’t like, simply move on to something else and don’t leave hate comments. this should be self explanatory, but it is really not the norm to start discourse in indie web spaces, and you will likely not even be responded to. it’s not worth it when you could be spending your time on stuff you love somewhere else.
take your time! indie web doesn’t prioritize fast content consumption the way social media does. you’ll get a lot more out of indie websites if you really read what’s in front of you, or take a little while to notice the details in someone’s art gallery instead of just moving on to the next thing. the person who put labor into presenting this information to you would also love to know that someone is truly looking and listening.
explore! by clicking links on a website, it’s easy to go down rabbitholes of more and more websites that you can get lost in for hours.
seeking out fansites or pages for the stuff you love is great and fulfilling, but reading someone’s site about a topic you’ve never even heard of before can be fun, too. i encourage you to branch out and really look for all the indie web has to offer.
i hope this post helps you get started with using and browsing the indie web! feel free to shoot me an ask if you have any questions or want any advice. <3
JS has a special place in my heart. It's got some really cool stuff goin on. But it also produces,,, some uhhhhhh,,,,, interesting stuff
I don't want to hear shit about javascript from python developers
i made a links page! it's pretty snazzy~
all of the animations on the site, including the opening animation above and the icon animations below, are made entirely with css – no javascript here! the icon animations for the social media icons are particularly fun, you should go see them for yourself 👀
the only javascript on the page powers some keyboard shortcuts, like skipping the animation with esc / tab, or switching between ☀️light and 🌙dark theme with L
i made the site with extensibility in mind, so i can easily add more links later. colors automatically cycle between blue, purple, and pink, and the icons automatically swap to the left or right; all i have to do is add text and an icon, and the css does the rest of the heavy lifting.
i can even add custom color palettes with minimal effort! it's as easy as plugging a few colors and then typing, for example, "green link" (insert zelda joke here)
besides just web dev, some graphic design went into the site as well – namely these two icons for my journal (left) and portfolio (right). i'm particularly proud of the journal icon, it's easily one of my best yet!
speaking of my portfolio, you may notice it says Coming Soon, i.e. it's not done. in truth, it's been coming "soon" for about five years now, waiting for inspiration to strike... and it finally did 👀 i'm hoping to make that my next web dev project~
anyway i have a few more ideas for what to do with this links page in the future, but hey, not half bad for a 1.0 release, right? ✨
check it out and let me know what you think! https://skyso.me/tric
NO MATTER WHAT I TRY IT WONT WORKKKKKKKKK
FIRST THE WHEEL JUST GOES AND NOTHING HAPPENS SO I KEPT TRYING TO SEE IF IT WAS MY JAVA VERSION
NOTHINGS WORKINGGG
HOW DO I FIX THIS?? I JUST WANT TO MAKE A SERVER IN MINECRAFT FOR ME AND MY BROTHER
BUT NO MATTER WHAT I DO THE FUCKING FILE WONT OPENNNNNNN
Minecraft
Hey everyone,
I have been working on a project for the past couple of months in light of having to interact with friends and family from the comfort of my home. Then I thought it may be useful to more than my small circle, so I wanted to know if anyone around here would be interested in using my custom Minecraft crafting guide.
Up until now I was using a giant text document, then I got fed up of scrolling endlessly and decided to move everything to a web page, and this is WAY better:
Note that this is for the Java version, and I haven’t finished yet!
More details and pictures under the cut!
What you can use it for:
Get all types of recipes: Crafting Table, Furnace, Grindstone, Brewing Stand, and more
Get all alternate recipes possible for a block, including repair recipes
View every single block variant possible
Filter by types of recipes
Find tips added to some recipes
Get all info about animals: taming, healing, breeding, growing
Available in French (for those interested)
Some categories:
Did I waste my time doing this? No.
My parents both LOVE the game, but didn’t want to switch from their PS3 and X360 versions which deprecated at 1.13.2, because there wasn’t anything (or anything not shitty) in-game on the Java version to help with crafting. So voilà. It’s mainly organized so they can easily find stuff, and it works pretty well! Ever since Thanksgiving (social distancing done right), we’ve been playing the latest version on my server.
Also because:
Big pictures
No stupid GIF roundabouts, you can see the blocks for as long as you want goddammit
More intuitive GUI than PC/PS/XBox/any version
Once you load the page, you can use it offline
Am OCD programmer
So, if any of you would like to use it, just let me know! If there are people interested I’ll publish it online. Then feel free to share it and leave feedback! I spent a lot of time and effort doing this, it’s all built from screenshots, game files, my tears, and Notepad.
Here’s the link!
Thanks!
Here is the link everyone! Didn’t expect this many of you to show interest, thank you guys!
It’s in French by default, but you can switch to English in the upper-right corner.
Minecraft
Hey everyone,
I have been working on a project for the past couple of months in light of having to interact with friends and family from the comfort of my home. Then I thought it may be useful to more than my small circle, so I wanted to know if anyone around here would be interested in using my custom Minecraft crafting guide.
Up until now I was using a giant text document, then I got fed up of scrolling endlessly and decided to move everything to a web page, and this is WAY better:
Note that this is for the Java version, and I haven’t finished yet!
More details and pictures under the cut!
Keep reading
edit: the correct answer is...
-0
this happens due to the way floating point numbers are stored; 0 and -0, although they are equivalent in value, the bits stored in your computer are not identical. the bit that tells a number that it is negative would be the only difference.
yeah, this is stupid, but so is javascript