🚧 What did you do to your website today?

i am in the middle of rebuilding https://emmas.place with Astro. while you can visit it, a lot of things won’t work right now. i had taken down my site during this process but got a little sad knowing that my homepage would just lead to a page not found. so it will be rebuilt in public

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added this little notice as a link on my index page just to ake things more clear

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I shuffled my links around a bit and added a bunch of new ones. Specifically, I created the section ā€œSmall Web/ Indie Web/ Old Webā€, and made sub sections. Most of the new links are ones I found through this place, both directly and indirectly.

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I greatly expanded my personal startpage - it’s now more of a personal startwebsite. But I had a lot of links I wanted to add, and I was having way too much fun writing fanfiction to go around them. :laughing:

Eventually that ā€œholodeck cleaning dutyā€ link will point to a page that’s just links to my favorite old computer games that are still playable online. I have to write that page first, though.

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I just started my hopefully permanent site/digital web garden using Feather Wiki, hosted on Neocities.

https://jr-wonderwander.neocities.org/

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I updated an old blog post since I’m re-reading the book in question in paperback. In the process I discovered that nested popovers work and can thus be used to create single page rabbit holes. :evil:

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Just added a section on web design approaches (handcrafting versus SSGs versus CMSs) with pros and cons for each. Wanted to make it a forum post at first, but figured it’s been already discussed to death around here.

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I’ve begun creating a starterpack page similar to one I saw on joodaloop.com. Unfortunately, masonry layout in CSS Grid isn’t implemented yet, so I had to ā€œcheatā€ a little.

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You have excellent taste. That’s the comment.

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Thanks, but you might revise your opinion as I add more to the page.

blood and souls for my lord Arioch!

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Damn right, though in Revenge old Arioch wasn’t much of an ally to Elric – who was himself more of a supporting character to the Rose, rather as he had been with Oone the Dreamthief in The Fortress of the Pearl.

Arioch’s support always seemed uncertain.

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If you haven’t read The Revenge of the Rose, the situation’s worse than that. Elric has to forcibly remind Arioch that he can’t do shit in Elric’s world unless summoned, and there’s no summoner on Elric’s more more capable than Elric himself.

Also, I saw your post about Jeff Bezos. I’ve got a few words about that dick myself.

I really like the look of your popovers. Maybe I shouldn’t have dismissed them for inline notes, especially larger ones. Definitely better than footnotes at any rate.

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The comments above inspired me to take a closer look at my footnotes. (Aside, but I prefer them by far to inline notes.)

Had a styling issue where the footnotes caused the line to expand in height, which didn’t look very nice. A quick search and I found some CSS trickery to fix it!

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Thanks, @basus.

Unfortunately, I’ve noticed that popovers with a lot of text don’t seem to flow or scroll properly on mobile browsers, at least not on Safari for iOS. Also, I’ve been misusing <button> elements as if they were hyperlinks to trigger the popovers because the <a> element doesn’t support the popover API.

As cool as the effect is on desktops and laptops, if it doesn’t work right on mobile then I need to reconsider it.

Besides, I’m starting to wonder if footnotes on websites are really such a hot idea. Web pages aren’t print media, so why emulate print? Why shouldn’t I just put notes on separate pages in a different directory? I could give visitors access to notes and let them return via standard hyperlinks. And if a given tangent is applicable in multiple places, I can link accordingly.

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oh, this is a fun idea! maybe i’ll make something like that.

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I made some backend changes for my cache system along with some file changes.

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Added an About the Author page to my Traveller RPG campaign blog, including statement about various human rights.

https://www.travelleritv.blog/about-the-author/

Added the same thing to another blog.

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