I've been sitting on this URL for some time trying to figure out what to do. Now that I have an idea (and an actually functional layout), I'll try to post things here regularly as they come up. This website is a work in progress so I'm still trying to nail things down as I come across new problems or ideas.
What do you mean it's been half a year? That's scary.
Anyway, have two more art posts and an under-the-hood update before I return to the void. I don't really get much time for this kind of thing these days, but I can still talk about what I'd like to get done if I have the time. This isn't really a roadmap, more of a rough list of projects that need wrapping up in no particular order.
Well... I finally caved in and started adding javascript. Nothing too fancy, just trying to cleanup some of these pages under the hood. There is a lot of repetition in how these pages are laid out, and I figured there must be some way to make that reusable. Well there is. Now, if only I could figure out a better way to handle page navigation.
(Speaking of which, wish paragraph elements wouldn't do that when in a nav element)
Anyway, I'm thinking of adding a section to describe the setting that's the home of many of the character in the art gallery. I've given a short blurb on each of the characters for their pictures, but that's mostly the background of their development. Their is a lot more about them, their homes, and their cultures.
The quest to develop this site to do everything I want continues. There's lot of work under the hood to try to handle various kinds of content in an elegant manner for both desktop and mobile while keeping everything simple. Some things (the pico-8 embeds in particular) still don't work so well on mobile. That's a problem for another time though.
There's still more to do to finish furnishing this site with all the features I originally planned. Still thinking about a guestbook, and I was reminded of the widgets one could add to their google pages website back in the day. Additionally, if any of my friends end up making their neocities sites, I'd like to form a webring.
Boy I forgot what a pain it is working with html/css, and of course I'm going to try to keep the javascript to a minimum for simplicity's sake. That being said, the theme seems to be mostly working how I'd like (curse those pesky side margins). I'll try to get those quirks ironed out and actually add some content, but it'll probably be slow going. In the future I'd like to add things like a guest book to complete that classic, personal webpage feel. I'm also going to figure out the best way to add some of my pico-8 games and other code projects to the code section of this website. The easiest thing right now though is adding some of my art since that's something I have readily on hand and the presentation shouldn't be too big of an issue.
There are some things I'm uncertain about. For one, I don't know if I should duplicate the posts from the other tabs onto this one, or keep them separated. Secondly, I don't know if the post order should be chronological from youngest to oldest, vice versa, or figure out some way to have the reader choose. Probably, the easiest is to have it be youngest first and then have easily navigable page controls. We'll see I suppose