Not surprisingly, I enjoy making things rather than documenting them. And, I have been making things! Unfortunately this means that almost everything in the previous post is not out of date. If I was to do this properly, I would take a snapshot of my entire site each time I wrote one of these articles.
I am not going to do that.
What I am going to do is rant (briefly) about html and css.
MY GOD some things are hard to do... Just getting a background image to stretch and stay in the right place took me hours of searching, trying and failing. That footer that I so happily procclaimed to be working in my last post? It moves around, goes into hiding and slides off the page. It just won't sit in the right place. I have have no idea how to make things look even close to pretty with css. I suppose this will come to me over the next few weeks/months/years, but right now I feel like I am creating a website from the late 90s.
I have reorganised everything though. Neocities does not allow folders, but trying to keep everything in a single messy folder was not working. I have4linksfrommy"webnotes-index.html"tosectionsofmywebsite(code,blog, webnotes, js games) and these have been separated locally. I also have a separate folder for stylesheets and if I start writing standalone js scripts they will also get their own little place. To solve the problem of uploading these files, I have written a little python script that moves things around and fixes hrefs/links. This does not work fully yet (crashes when it finds identical filenames in different folders) but will soon...
Dispite my troubles with html and css, I am really enjoying javascript! I have 2 pages with very basic scripts. Nothing useful, just learning. My next plan is to write something like boobs and explosions with images I will grab from reddit. Of course, first I need to write the image grabber and learn the reddit api.
I think that the format of this post will be standard from now on. My site is in too much flux at the moment, and I know so little about html, css and js to make code snippets useful. I will leave the previous post up. Good to see where I started.
See you soon