that’s right… TWO stickers per certificate for year 2.
1 compliment: what a creative use of tables! i am especially pleased by how the spilled sand looks.
1 critique: i think the introductory text should be in a larger font size! i think having it smaller than the ants “after” they’ve escaped and overrun the page works well, but having the first sentence text smaller than the ants feels a bit off.
you are now officially permitted to display the trophy or plaque wherever you please!
i hardly ever use tables, but they are surprisingly versatile, huh?
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there is still plenty of time left in september, so i hope everyone is having a grand time doing or not-doing your various artistic endeavors. it seems a lot of people are interested this year which is nice. so far this month i have sewn myself a jacket and a little stupid plushie, which i will probably not be putting on my website.
i put something out there. not really a lot of content since i still dont know exactly what info i want to invlude in pages but i wanted to make sure the navigation worked so i made a couple of extra pages. i dont feel like trying too hard anymore so im leaving the css as it was when i picked it back up this month
criticism: it seems i broke the random background images when adding the navigation on individual pokemons pages. if anyone knows how to fix it let me know…
compliment: i like that i was able to put mini sprites of the next/previous pokemons as well as putting them in the list
compliment: i like that you used a pokemon font for the pokedex entry headers instead of images! that’s a nice touch and i bet will be helpful both for user readability and for future editing.
criticism: the image-rendering:crisp-edges crunches the non-sprite illustrations in a weird way! i think they look better without that. it’s particularly notable with the left eevee illustration.
Well, I still have a fair amount of work to do on mine but here’s what I’ve got so far! PlainFeeder is what I’m affectionately calling my plain text RSS reader. It’s fully web-based and doesn’t have any user sign up functionality or anything. Right now it’s just a handful of feeds that I follow (including my own I’m not ashamed to admit!) that have a bunch of different and unique things I had to account for. This is very much a proof of concept for me but it’s been fun writing it, even if it’s felt a little like flailing around a bit (or more accurately, a lot)!
It’s written from scratch with PHP, and outputs just the raw HTML and CSS for the site. There’s a small database behind the scenes that I’m debating swapping to SQLite for portability since it’s not a super intensive site. The database stores basics about the feeds, what statuses we’ve received, caching headers returned from the servers to reuse in future requests, as well as the posts pulled from the feeds themselves. It does have a queue table built into it but that’s only accessible on the server itself, no feed URL submissions directly on the site as of yet. I also have it strip out all image tags on the posts themselves, that way it doesn’t inundate the source server with requests for what would effectively be hot linked assets (this does detract a little bit from the original post contents but that’s what the source URL is for in my opinion).
I don’t know if I’ll ever get around to making this something you can sign up for or not, I haven’t decided yet. Feels like a pretty big commitment and much riskier in terms of securing services more than I’ve attempted to thus far. I also feel like this teeters on the edge of re-publishing content, so not quite sure how to consolidate that part of it yet either.
september is over where i am! pencils down. you’re not allowed to work on your projects any more or you’ll go to JAIL
hope everybody enjoyed their month regardless of how much they did or didn’t accomplish. please note that if you do not give yourself 1 compliment and 1 critique i will also not give you those things!
i’ll check melonland and do certificates and such over the next few days. i think next year i’ll make a web page for suck at something september with links to peoples projects. i don’t feel like doing it this year lol. @ribose is it alright if i dm you certificates for melonland folks?
Idea: “own it october” where you revisit your “suck at something” (perhaps from 13 months prior for funsies and to honor the “pencils down”?) and make it marginally better
Ah! Totally missed the 1 compliment and 1 critique bit for mine!
Compliment: I’m happy with how I was able to build the request logic to retrieve feed updates without constantly sending and receiving a lot of data. I also think the page layouts work nicely for a plain text reader and stays out of the way of the reader so they can get in, read their updates, and carry on with their day.
Critique: I don’t have any good way to setup new feeds easily without manually editing the database, and I don’t let the user sort by post times or for feeds that have new updates. Sorting should be pretty easy to do at least.
compliment: looks really clean and easy to read! nothing that really pulls the eye away from the posts, just an easy-peasy feed.
critique: without knowing anything about coding anything like this, my capacity for critique is pretty limited…! i think there should be a bit more spacing between the navigation links up top (home / read / about / contact). they look kinda cramped.
