Not on my website but on everybody’s websites: I contributed code for the first time 
to neocities.
Now when you hover over a file, the text size is a bit better & the link changes size so you know what you’re about to click.
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ahhh thank you!! i spent a while changing the fonts on everything and i think it adds so much personality!!! - j
My site is now accessible via ActivityPub courtesy of Bridgy Fed. It also has a social sharing link powered by ShareOpenly.
Details are in this blog post.
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added a new bunny to my bunny pixel club :3 and updated some info on my rainbow pages!! particularly about fogbows and droplet size and my primary rainbow page, which was initially part of the prism page before it got too long (since I got into explaining how caustics shape rainbows). I also added to the js link page so that my rainbow sidebar nav would include the “new” pages in the right order (the pages I added had been in abandoned WIP for a few months until now and I hadn’t added them)
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Added a new guestbook (atabook).
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That’s really cool! I now know what to call the pretty, wavy concentrations of light formed on the bottom of pools (or formed by the glass block window in my bathroom).
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we did a few things today!!
- added the premonition by banana yoshimoto to the bookshelf
- added perfect blue to the film library
- added an image to the abstract gallery
- added two photos (1, 2) to the photo gallery
- i updated the fonts and some styling on my own pages !!!
and we have a blog post coming soon, too! exciting!!! - charlize
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I’ve just launched a new update to my site, featuring the custom cursors I’ve previously talked about, but also the addition of new animations and a little toy project!
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Yo, the bookshelf is looking wicked.
That 5.32 MB background image is a killer though 
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No kidding. I just grabbed a copy and ran it through ImageMagick. Converting to JPEG at 75% quality reduced the file size to 388Kb.
If this was a repeating background I could have scaled this down from 2000x2000 pixels and further reduced the file size.
For example, here’s the image reduced to 1000x1000 pixels and converted to JPEG at 75% quality. It weighs in at 141Kb. That’s a huge reduction.
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aughhh we uploaded it when we first started websiting and then just… never changed it. thank you for your advice, @starbreaker too! it’s been changed to a much smaller (filesize-wise) jpg now!! - j and charlize
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It wasn’t today, but I recently noticed my Netlify bandwidth was way too high for my sites (2.3GB in a month). I realized the issue was my links page with its large images; I’d intended to do something about them eventually, but honestly didn’t expect that much traffic.
So I moved my links page over to Eleventy and implemented the image plugin. I still don’t have a good handle on the best image sizes (in pixels) or the correct media queries for the sizes attribute, but at least now it’s got lazy loading and avif, webp, and jpeg files rather than pngs, even if it may be serving images that are too big (in pixels).
I also added a robots.txt in case any of that traffic was AI bots that listen to robots.txt, and used Eleventy templating and front matter data to simplify things.
Anyway, it seems to have helped! In the last 5 days my 2 sites combined have been 1-8MB/day rather than 5-300MB/day.
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I set up a new gallery on my site today! It’s still a work in process, I’ve got lots of images to add over the next couple of weeks, but I’m very happy with the finished index page! It’s mobile responsive, and I recently learned how to use the CSS “filter” property 
You can check out Najima’s profile page at the very least 
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Don’t worry about it. Making mistakes is how we learn. I’ve just made more mistakes than you, that’s all.
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I’m working on my site’s layout, using flexbox to take better advantage of desktop screens while still being readable on mobile.
It’s not ready to upload yet because I’ve got lots of templates to update, but here’s a screenshot.
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I love where this is going 
I’ve been playing around with a “masonry” type layout on my homepage. Considering ditching it for some explicit grid-areas for finer control.
Thanks, but I’m reasonably sure there’s at least one WordPress theme that resembles my layout. I’m not doing anything fancy here. And I’m not quite comfortable enough with CSS Grid to use that yet. Flexbox is more my speed right now, and it seems to be just enough to give me what I want.
Here’s a screenshot of my whole homepage so far. I’m not happy with the footer in the new layout. I’ll work on that tomorrow, though.
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It looks like it could use with some centering!
