Thanks. And yeah, it’s too bad the drop cap wasn’t really working in dark mode, because the light mode version was fun! My headings are already a bit of a challenge to read, though, and I didn’t want to make it even worse. I work with a lot of people who have cognitive deficits, so I have a sense of how frustrating it can be to read anything that isn’t a simple serif or sans-serif. Your faux drop cap is a great example of readable design!
I guess I’ll just leave a screen cap up of what it used to look like, in case anyone wants to try something similar for an art project.
In order to reduce distraction for readers when reading my website, I have decided to make the navigation bar not sticky, and convert the “Back to top” button to a regular link on the footer, so those elements will not take up the screen.
So I’ve been gone for a hot minute oops. Glad to be somewhat back with a huge update for my main site, Cosy Diner, that I was working on in the background.
To summarize the changes:
Entire layouts have been changed (Index, Blog, About Me, Main Projects, To-Do)
More mobile accessibility for webpages
A lot of CSS tricks (I didn’t wanna rely on making art to style the pages this time around)
There’s finally a guestbook if you wanna share your thoughts
Added outlinks for webrings and other places you can find me
I got access to codeberg woodpecker CI and I’m slowly setting up automatic CI build/publish instead of just running it manually from home. this will ensure the published site and repo are always in lock step.
Nervous part is pasting all these secrets (SSH key) into the web interface and just like, hoping it works. I created a separate SSH for just this purpose so it is easy to revoke but
Uhh right now my shit is broken because I had to make a docker image for my build dependencies (I managed to get this far in life without ever having to create a Dockerfile but alas) but the woodpecker CI has cached the old version of the image and doesn’t have all the dependencies. but it’ll be cool when I get there!
Today I finally finished and uploaded my webmaster/about page! I styled it to look like a scroll paper :3 I still need to draw a footer but since that will just be cosmetic and not necessary I figured id just go without it for now lol. I am excited about how it turned out!
My one recent accomplishment was writing half a page about the Jabber network, including Movim, that I’ve been looking at over the weekend (not for the first time).
Last night, I fully updated the /now page. Not a huge update this time around, but it does include an old video clip of me loudly ranting about how 4D movies aren’t “4D”.
Mind you, this is just the home page, I still have some work left on other parts of the site. And the performance overall has already been pretty decent.
The two things I mainly focused on were:
Color contrast. I’ve been a bit lazy about this, I will admit, relying on Bootstrap’s own color theme. Finally cleaned this up.
hVmark is now at v1.7.0. I changed the italic text marker from %text% to /text/. Despite that, %text% still can be used regardless; I am all about using deprecated code, after all.
It’s a lot more ergonomic, while still keeping the mnemonic concept in mind.
Cosy Diner: I made a kins page full of characters I relate to, in a gallery format. Some of the characters pages haven’t been made yet so stay tuned for more updates.
Velvet’s Smoking Lounge: I made the hard decision to close down the entire site and putting it under hiatus until I’m ready to show off a better version. The pressure of adding new stuff during a main layout change was getting to me, so I rather start from scratch with basic pages for now. Any visuals will be updated in private.
And yeah, it’s too bad the drop cap wasn’t really working in dark mode, because the light mode version was fun! My headings are already a bit of a challenge to read, though, and I didn’t want to make it even worse. I work with a lot of people who have cognitive deficits, so I have a sense of how frustrating it can be to read anything that isn’t a simple serif or sans-serif. Your faux drop cap is a great example of readable design!
