no idea if this has been done before… there was 1 similar topic but the last reply was from 2024 lol so here goes nothing
whats the ONE thing youre proudest of about your site?
it can be anything, maybe a specific page, a program you wrote for it, a particular blog post, a css trick, but please be specific. stuff like “im proud i made a website” is too generic. if its like “im proud of the aesthetic” maybe say how exactly did you achieve the aesthetic!
if you have more than 1 site feel free to say 1 thing about each, if you want!
The overall concept! I wanted to see if the bulk of a website can be set inside one long homepage that can be read top-to-bottom but also with links between sections like on a wiki. Worked really well, too, if not for very long.
I’m most proud of my insane CSS and how I eventually optimized it too. Pulling apart what was initially one big file of 3000+ lines of code and dicing it into little bits. Oh, and I’m proud of my background-image optimization. It was a big lag before when I had the image on the body tag with the properties “position: fixed;” and “background-blend-mode: var(–background-blend-mode), overlay;”.
Now I use a dedicated div just after the body tag (anyone can always “steal” my code):
im really proud of my extremely organized plush collection pages, it’s why i made a website to begin with and its such a fun conversation starter and enjoyable to slowly build up over time!!!
i also love my about me page because i struggled a lot with the layout and getting the css to cooperate and it looks great ^^
The backend. I built a just-in-time static site generator from scratch, with its own markup language. I just upload a specifically-named text file and BOOM, a page/post is created and builds itself.
I like my ‘media’ landing page a lot, even though I actually need to upload the media review pages one day and I still haven’t LOL…coming soon, allegedly. But something about the layout is satisfying to me… and I’m pretty proud that I have my media log still going even tho it aint much to look at.
The content. I appreciate that design is a big part of the old web also, but I have no talent in that regard. For me, as someone who first experienced the internet in the early 1990s as a Computer Science student at Uni, it’s all about the communication; that and the sharing of information, and the establishment of communities of interest.
Great question! For my main site, definitely the comment system I made where people can sign in via their websites.
Another project I worked on that I’m really proud of is Calgary Groups, a directory for local organizations in my city. There are hundreds of entries and it is so fast (makes up for all the other coding sins I’ve committed over the years)
The fun i’ve managed to have with css!! I especially am proud of my “lamia”-page (which just is me playing with css lol) though i really like my “fashion”-page too!
Although I am currently in the process of learning how to build my own CMS in order to get rid of WordPress, I’m proud of how I’ve manipulated WordPress to work for me!
I don’t think anyone could guess it runs on WordPress without checking source code or the pages where I say it runs on WordPress! Haha.
for me that’s probably my art page :)) it’s kinda slapped together PHP to get it to behave how I want it to, buuut for my PHP knowledge being basically all self-taught I think it functions really well - just not optimized/industry standard lol
Lately it’s my manga reviews page, which has a dense tagging and rating system that updates on the fly. It uses a flatfile database since it’s neocities, so it’s just making calls to the file over and over and manipulating and sorting it. I just added some new filters and functions to it. I started it because I don’t remember the name of whatever I just read or if I read the title several years ago. The reviews are very unserious however. I just liked building a dense sorter with the sort of filters I care about in mind. I’m probably at 150 starting sometime in late 2024. It motivated me to read more because I get to yap about it afterwards and put it on the page
i guess it would be the background of my website? the entire thing is done without any :before workarounds or anything, its solely done through the background: css tag (and mix-blend-mode), and its also set up to fail gracefully if the blending isnt supported since the top layer is still a nice looking pattern
plus, i COULD set up a css variable to make the hue of it controllable, since the actual color of the background is entirely programatic (handled with various gradients)
it depends on the day! i like my whole web site haha. at the moment i think i’m most proud of my tiled backgrounds collection, it’s quite large and i am sooo glad solaria made that radio button filtering tutorial, it’s so good. i like playing with it just for fun, mousing over the backgrounds and lookin at them all… feels like playing dressup. i put a lot of time into editing a lot of the images myself so it’s satisfying to see them tiling properly! and i like to see things organized in rainbow order. a jolly time.
This is a hard one for me, since I like so many different parts of my site. I’d say I’m really fond of my Free Stuff Links Page, and I’m also really fond of my site backgrounds, which change every time you reload a page. I even hid a little easter egg in one of them
(makes up for all the other coding sins I’ve committed over the years)
