July 7~8 -- changelog + commentary

idk if it's my computer or neocities but i can't edit my pages for 5 seconds without the entire dang page freezing on me.

also... eugh... this code is getting long and kinda hard to look at. might need to make a new changelog page eventually.

• finally finished incorporating/formatting the Artist page with Windows XP CSS. many thanks to Aristos for helping me figure out what was wrong with the tabs (it was JS. ofc it was fucking JS; I'm such an idiot)

this actually took me forever to figure out and the freezing made my sanity tank even more than it already had. the last time i fiddled with the XP.css file, i was still in school, lol. think it might've been back in April.

some changes include:

• the flex items now stack properly when the screen changes width (mobile-friendly!! yay)

ik i said that making stuff mobile-friendly was on low on my list of priorities but listen, if i do it properly now, and not later, that means i'll have less work since there's less to re-code. therefore, this is the most efficient method.

plus, i only made sure that it's stacking right (function). the aesthetics are not a priority atm and it does not indeed look good stacked rn haha.

• finished the bio and made it "command prompt" themed
• added a section for resources and where people will be able to retrieve my website button in the future. this is also where the psych research resource link will be included in the future.
• finished the section on interests/favorites. I will have to add in more stuff later, but idr what else i like
• redid the section with stickers/banners and made it tabbed too so i can add in more images in the future when neocities.org wants to calm down and not lose it's shit when i'm trying to work on the code.
• added a background to by little avatar/pagedoll thing

ofc, with the addition of the new format/linked CSS file, I now also have to redo a lot of other things, notably:

• redo or take out the original CSS so that it doesn't override the new CSS
• reposition all of the little images and memes I have scattered around the page and have them "stick" to their respective windows so it's still mobile-friendly and clean to look at.
• uploaded a bunch more images/decorations that i will include later

July 1-- update

last month's goal was to finish the Gallery to the extent that it's functional and polished enough to be shown. i reached this goal :))

this month's goal is to finish the database and add in the text/images for a couple entries.

June 29 -- changelog

• updated Gallery bg with the fixed values. I don't feel like making any other changes to the background--even though I'm not completely happy with it. I have other, more pertinant issues to deal with.
• minor edits to "enterthecity"

June 28 -- changelog

• made the background for the Gallery. I like the direction, but the values are a little too dark for some of the buildings; it distracts from the displayed art.
• added another note in the Gallery to make it explicit to the user that the road signs are clickable.
• starting "enterthecity" over from stratch. rip :(

June 24 -- changelog + commentary

• Umbra's playlist is now done. I think there might be something wrong with the server though because my code keeps reverting to a previous version when i refresh the page, so i still need to fiddle around with the play/pause/skip/back buttons, but otherwise than that, it's done.
• minor edits here and there. nothing worth talking about.

June 23 -- changelog

• woah. i'm so good at making shapes. Maroon's playlist is now officially done. it looks awesome, if i do say so myself.
• copied all of the playlist code to Umbra's page as well. now i just have to change the shape and flip the transformations.

June 22 -- commentary

• found a code by Loveberry that plays music. i heavily edited it (i only wanted the JS, haha) and added the music player to Maroon's (currently hidden) character pages. it isn't pretty, but i wanted to make sure that the code works (and it is) :)

June 21 -- changelog

• finally fixed the Gallery buttons so that they "stick" to the image comment box. the answer was using a flexbox and relative/absolute positioning. ugh. took me an embarrassing amount of time to figure out what needed to have relative positioning to make it work.
• Gallery navbar is no longer an iframe (good riddance). i was lazy and made it static instead of having it dynamically loaded-in through JS, but you know what, that's probably a good thing. something something front-end performance.
• added CSS to the Archive and added the fonts used in the Archive to the Credits page.

April 17~19 -- update

Added and worked on a new page on (psych) research that i will eventually link through my artist page.

Coding the website has been paused so that i can concentrate on academics.

Mar. 24 -- update

yeah, lol, it was the glow text effect. i give up on the text effect (but the crt lines are staying! :DD)

still don't know what i wanna do for the database...

Mar. 20 & 21 -- changelog + commentary

finished finals today, so you know what that means :))

• moved all of the image credits from the Artist page to the Credits page.
• i began working on the Artist page graphics but i gave up when the tabs weren't working. that's a future Jessie problem now.
• fixed the issue with the database side navbar shifting around. past Jessie was a genius thank you past Jessie.
• i added the database to the website and tested it. it's working (mostly), but very slow--even without the crt filter. i need to figure out how to optimize it (or do away with the text-glow effect completely since i'm like 95% sure it's what's tanking the webpage).

besides the issue with the slowness, the tag and search function is working on the index/homepage/whatever you wanna call it, but everything falls to shit when you try to search stuff up on individual entries--which are all seperate html pages. instead of searching though the entire "database" it only "searches" within that individual entry which means that it goes nowhere. this is a big issue that will take priority over optimization. (the tags are still fine though)

what i have to figure out now is if i want to be opening a seperate page within the main database page (i.e. something like an iframe), keep the seperate html pages and fix the issue through editing the JavaScript code, or something else entirely. i'd rather not use an iframe if i can help it.

• fixed the pagedoll animations and made them draggable.

Feb. 25 -- changelog

• updated the the credit page.

i need to do better on adding links to any image i use to the page. i keep forgetting though and then i forget how i found the original image :((

• more edits to the database. still can't get it to work.

Feb. 20 -- changelog

• added pagedoll placeholders + animation to the main site and the pagedoll placeholder to the artist page.

the Maroon and Umbra placeholders need the animations fixed and also have their pagedolls be draggable.

• fixed the playlist on the artist page and added in the YouTube links for each of the songs.

now i just have to make the playlist look like all of the other divs

also gotta rememeber that i need to do away with the flexbox. it looks way worse on mobile too.

• continued working on the database.

Feb. 18 -- changelog + commentary

only worked on the database today.

• side navigation bar now supports sub-navigation links
• tried to rewrite the database code so that JavaScript dynamically inserts the navigation bar code, but when the sub-navigation is opened up, the whole navigation bar pushes the rest of the content away--which isn't supposed to happen.

maybe it'd work better if the navigation bar is inserted into a seperate container w/ its own width & height?

• added some entries ideas

i need to figure out what the template for the individual entries should look like.

Feb. 17 -- changelog + commentary

• started working on an ARG database that will be password-protected (eventually).
• i found a really cool CRT filter code online. it tanked the site framerate but i made some minor edits to it and now it works :)). the framerate is still a little slow and clunky and i'll have to try to optimize the animation. that said, the vibes are kinda cool and realistic for a big database of like a million bajillion entries.
• i've got the basic search/tag function working but now i'm trying to optimize it since i don't want to be copy/pasting the navigation bar for every page.

this was the idea that spurred me to start thinking about making my own website since WordPress doesn't let you password-protect your site uless you get premium or something (or maybe I'm think of Wix? idk).

• i fixed the buttons placement

but now i have to figure out a way to have them be "attached" to the author's notes and overlayed over the displayed image. i also want the "first"/"previous" buttons to be located closer towards the left side of the image while the "next"/"latest" buttons are located closer towards the right side. i'm thinking about using absolute/relative postiioning but i'm not sure how well that's gonna work for smaller screens/mobile.

• minor edits

Feb. 16 -- changelog

• fixed the gallery (finally)

looks like i didn't need the Rarebit template afterall...

• fixed all of the navigation links on the homepage to link to the fixed gallery.
• added a couple of more images to the gallery.
• made the buttons show as images of road signs and finally got rid of the ugly gray button background. i still have to fix the placement of the buttons, but it's basically finished.

i had the pictures of the road signs dithered way before but didn't add them until now.

• minor edits

Feb. 15 -- changelog + commentary

i'm working on the website again bc it's KYD anniversary tmr but i'm not gonna be able to finish it by then. i am motivated though :)

i shouldn't be here bc i have midterms this week and i'm so obviously procrastinating again, but... dang it i havn't felt this motivated to do creative stuff in ages.

• changed index.html to homepage.html so that index.html can act as a warning page that all users will have to aknowledge before they are sent to the actual page itself.
• minor grammar edits.

Jan. 31 -- changelog

• edited both Maroon and Umbra's character sheets.

Jan. 29 -- changelog + commentary

i feel bad that i haven't updated this site in a while. unfortunately, there's nothing i can do about it. duty calls.

• made a blog for myself where i can rant and just brainfart all over the page. used the Zonelets template

Jan. 7 -- changelog

• added the file and the template for the pagedoll on Umbra's page.

i also gave up on the working file idea lol

• fixed the overflow issue with the grid on my fav media on the "Artist" page and also started working on the new playlist

Jan. 6 -- changelog + commentary

• worked on Umbra's character sheet.
• finally worked out how to create the "flipping through papers" effect that i was looking for (it's essentially a bunch of glorified sticky elements).
• couldn't figure out the code for a working "file" (clicking on the file reveals "pages" of the character sheet and clicking on it again hides the papers)... might have to give up on that idea, but i'll keep tweaking it until i give up lol.
• added a little bit of content for the character sheet/profile
• found a template for a site where you can shift polaroids around in a small area that i think will work really well for a "box-of-stones" gimmick for Umbra. now i just have to figure out how it works to reverse-engineer the code to work for simple images (pictures of rocks).
• started remaking the playlist on the "Artist" page
• added some of my fav media on the "Artist" page

Jan. 5 -- changelog + commentary

• finally remade the update page with my own code. took me way longer than it should've, but hey, it's done.

i didn't realize until now that make a working directory can be done completely in HTML code. now i just feel silly :/

• made it so that clicking on the webcomic links opens the link in a new window.
• worked on Maroon's character sheet.
• created the html file for both of them (though i've only uploaded and worked on Maroon's)
• made a working directory with text-hover effects
• added a couple of div templates to figure out where everything will go (complete with the skewed text-box effect that i was going for)
• wrote content for the character sheet/profile

Dec. 7 -- changelog

• minor edits.
• added a whole bunch more images and replaced a couple of them with compressed versions so that they would take up less storage space.
• added a playist to my artist page, but then realized that this playlist applies to the entire page--which isn't what i want.

i'll have to redo this later, but at least i know what songs i want to be playing on my page at least...

Dec. 3 -- changelog

i give up lol. i think i'm gonna have to go back to using Rarebit. i'm too stupid for this. i'll just add in the other stuff that i want into the Rarebit code itself.

also, i should not be working on this website. i need to have more self-control. i have finals to study for what the hell am i doing here.

• minor edits (like adding my neocities profile to the artist page, adding a button to the "WINNER" fake-popup etc.)
• brought the password/audio to the front in "enterthecity"

Nov. 30 -- changelog

• minor edits here and there.
• added visitor counters to both the homepage (technically the artist page) and to the KYD gallery main page. the main site counter will only record unique visitors and display it. the KYD gallery main page will record unique visitors AND also display how many visitors are currently on the page.

i will have to presumably add another iframe in the future just for the counter so that it displays the counter on all pages.

• updated artist page with banners, images, stickers etc. also added my carrd link back to the page. didn't write anything though.
• updated the window icons with pixel art that i got from pixel/image resource pages.
• changed the bullets from hearts to stars

Nov. 29 -- changelog

• i fucking broke the gallery archive lol. in other news, the author's notes now supports html and multiple lines of text.
• added a lot of art to the gallery
• tried to make the javascript also support gifs. did not work. still trying to figure that out.
• made the world page (WorLd).
• nerfed the nav bar on the main site so that it can't be dragged around anymore.
• made the window headers grayscale everything in it so that i don't have to manually change the colors of the icons/fake buttons etc.
• customized the page not found link.

centering text is a lot harder than it looks.

• sketched an idea of what i want the character info sheets to look like (the sketch is not on the website nor implemented yet).

doing a lot of research on how to skew a scrollbox etc.

Nov. 28 -- changelog + commentary

i spent the ENTIRE day just coding. crazy.

• completely revamped my homepage lol. i used nonkiru's website layout template as a base and then edited the hell out of it (jk i actually have not, but it certainly felt like it since it took be a good couple of hours to do).
  In other news: the little windows are now draggable (except for the "enter the city" window), and the fake buttons are more responsive (hoverable and clickable).

i tried to make a reusable navigation bar before i gave up because i realized there wasn't a point in doing so. too much effort for a thing that i probably would've only reused for like 2 pages.

• changed the chat colors to fit the new color palette.
• added new fonts
• added an artist page that's seperate from my carrd. there's nothing on it yet though.

do i need it when i already have a carrd page? no. is the desire to have a fully customized page where i can put a bunch of visual-nicknacks that i like really tempting? of course. so i'm putting a template there juuuuust in case ;))

• added many many new features and pages. i spent the most amount of time on the kyd gallery. specifically...
1. i completely started from scratch (bye-bye Rarebit template)
2. made a sick navigation bar for the gallery that is also reusable bc i used iframes

trying to make the navigation bar to not only 1.be mobile-friendly and 2.not shift everything else round when you hover over the links (since the font changes) was so... uuuughhhhhhh. i spent so much time on this stupid navigation bar and the "mobile" version still isn't working right (a scroll-bar shows up in the iframe when the window is made smaller, and that's not supposed to happen but i can't figure out why the iframe is being limited to such a small container).

3. added javascript to the gallery so that instead of having to load to a new webpage for every single image, the arrow buttons instead cycle through the images
4. the javascript also automatically adds a link to the aforementioned image in the archive (EteRniZe)
5. added a character info page (PersoNAs). all i did was typing out the losers' names in a cool font though.
6. linked the new gallery back to the main site (ReTurn Home)
• updated the credits list and also made it accessible on the main site nav bar.
• added a to-do list to the bottom of this page

Nov. 27 -- changelog

• added a warning bc the homepage is not mobile-friendly at all
• added many images to the "enterthecity" webpage (my goal was to make a collage and that's what i did).

still working on it though. it needs to be a little more surreal and a little more "zine-y".

also, i need to figure out how to bring the password/audio div forward so that they are ontop of images rather than behind them.

• made a credits page for all the pngs that i used on the "enterthecity" webpage.

also a WIP. i'm missing a couple of credits but i will add them in later

Nov. 21 -- changelog

• started working on remaking the css for this update page

Nov. 20 -- changelog

• added clouds and the big cell tower images to the password page and also made it so that the user can't scroll horizontally.
• added a music player to the password page (but no music yet ahahah) and replaced the original music feat. that i originally copied and pasted from another user's page.

working on the collage was a good refresher on how to manipulate images. thank you w3schools my beloved.

• changed the window/border colors on the main page.
• edited the button
• changed the colors of the scroll bar on the main page.

Nov. 18 -- changelog

• added this update/changelog page and linked it to the home menu. i will have to redo this page later bc i essentially copy-and-pasted it from another neocities site, but i wanted the java integration. i don't have time to break it down though, so that's future me's problem.
• linked my carrd page to the "Artist" link on the main page.

Nov. 17 -- changelog

• added gallery using the Rarebit comic template.
• added the chat to the main page and the chat rules.
• added an explaination of what this website's purpose is.
• messed around with a password protected page that Xobyte coded. it's very easy to understand, and his other demos are also really cool. would reccommend--even if it's just as a fun read :))
• messed around with a music-boxeqse feature that i saw someone had on their page that i am trying to break down and understand.

Nov. 16 -- thoughts

created this site on a whim :p

or... well... that's a bit of a lie.

i've wanted to make a website with ARG elements for ages now, but i never got the chance to because of time and the fact that no website creator/hosting platform had all of the things that i wanted to make the full project work. i'd also forgotten most of my HTML/CSS knowledge years ago, and relearning the language felt like a hassle when i'm already stressed as it is.

welp. i'm totally procrastinating on my actual work by working on this website instead.

worst thing is, knowing myself, i know i'm going to be working on this project for a while and then one day wake up and lose interest in it. it's happened so any times already that i'm almost expecting it.

so... how long do you want to bet on this project this time around?

i love having ADHD /s

• make gallery better
• add clickable/hoverable character sheets in Personas
• finish formatting the ind. character pages
• remake enterthecity
• create the city page and make it interactable (to some extent)
• fix the database and make it functional
• fix the artist page
• CSS file override fix
• meme/img positioning redo
• add working playlist? (maybe)
• remake "You Win!", the navigation bar, and the song list to fit the Windows XP theme
• reformat the fake ads and banners

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DONE

• created a credits page, downloaded images that needed to be downloaded to prevent hotlinking, and moved all credits/resources here instead
• redid the CSS for this page
• working gallery w/ javascript
• longer author's notes that supports html formatting
• added a visitor counter
• archive with links to each image (sigh)
• cool buttons with fixed formatting (mobile-friendly, yay!)
• made a bg
• added playlists and embeded them into the character pages
• customized "page not found"
• customed the artist page with new CSS (Windows XP theme)