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numb3r_5ev3n) wrote2020-02-15 12:01 pm
numb3r_5ev3n) wrote2020-02-15 12:01 pm
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Fun with CSS.
- Turns out Monday is a work holiday, so I have a three day weekend.
- I changed up my website again. This is what it looks like now.
When I found out about Neocities, I showed it to some of my local friends, and we were like "let's each make a site like it was 1998 again, and start our own webring!" But then I found out that CSS has moved forward a lot, and I can do things with it now that I had only dreamed about doing in 2009 when I was really learning about it for the first time. Things like border-radius, (which I was playing around with but am not currently using now, but might in the near future) linear-gradient, (which I am not using now but may use in the future) and opacity (though I am pulling it off by using RGB with an added alpha channel.)
The theme I ended up going with is "someone's personal cyberpunk-themed/Matrix-themed fan site, if CSS3 had been available in the early 2000s." (Yes, I am still using page break tags, horizontal rule tags, and marquee tags in the Year Of Our Lord 2020. Though that may change once I figure out what the CSS equivalent is.)
A lot of sites on Neocities seem to do this, actually - pull off the 1998-early 2000s Geocities aesthetic, but with newer machinery under the hood. I suspect some of it is by coders born since then, but who may have nostalgia for a time that they didn't experience directly, or weren't conscious of if they were alive then. People have commented on the prevalence of the Vaporwave Aesthetic on sites created through Neocities. There are also a heck of a lot of Serial Experiments Lain fansites there, with some of them being the most visited sites on that platform. I think they have a webring.
The resources I am turning to the most for reference are: W3Schools, CSS Tricks, and Stack Overflow.
A great article I found linked on CSS Tricks is "Old CSS, New CSS" which is a history of one web designer's experience with web design over the decades. A quote from the article:
A lot of "web design" for beginners still is just copy pasting some lines of code and hoping it does what you want and doesn't break things in horrible ways. It's a work in progress.
Current Mood:
- I changed up my website again. This is what it looks like now.
When I found out about Neocities, I showed it to some of my local friends, and we were like "let's each make a site like it was 1998 again, and start our own webring!" But then I found out that CSS has moved forward a lot, and I can do things with it now that I had only dreamed about doing in 2009 when I was really learning about it for the first time. Things like border-radius, (which I was playing around with but am not currently using now, but might in the near future) linear-gradient, (which I am not using now but may use in the future) and opacity (though I am pulling it off by using RGB with an added alpha channel.)
The theme I ended up going with is "someone's personal cyberpunk-themed/Matrix-themed fan site, if CSS3 had been available in the early 2000s." (Yes, I am still using page break tags, horizontal rule tags, and marquee tags in the Year Of Our Lord 2020. Though that may change once I figure out what the CSS equivalent is.)
A lot of sites on Neocities seem to do this, actually - pull off the 1998-early 2000s Geocities aesthetic, but with newer machinery under the hood. I suspect some of it is by coders born since then, but who may have nostalgia for a time that they didn't experience directly, or weren't conscious of if they were alive then. People have commented on the prevalence of the Vaporwave Aesthetic on sites created through Neocities. There are also a heck of a lot of Serial Experiments Lain fansites there, with some of them being the most visited sites on that platform. I think they have a webring.
The resources I am turning to the most for reference are: W3Schools, CSS Tricks, and Stack Overflow.
A great article I found linked on CSS Tricks is "Old CSS, New CSS" which is a history of one web designer's experience with web design over the decades. A quote from the article:
Damn, I miss those days. There were no big walled gardens, no Twitter or Facebook. If you had anything to say to anyone, you had to put together your own website. It was amazing. No one knew what they were doing; I’d wager that the vast majority of web designers at the time were clueless hobbyist tweens (like me) all copying from other clueless hobbyist tweens.
A lot of "web design" for beginners still is just copy pasting some lines of code and hoping it does what you want and doesn't break things in horrible ways. It's a work in progress.
Current Mood: