3.23.2025 - I talked to my sister on the phone today, and she looked at this website.
3.21.2025 - After a bit of a break, I spent a large part of yesterday making pixel art for the Solus pages of the site (the train, pretty much, which is still not finished yet!!) and coding the Solus pages. I have learned one way to make menu sidebars, and I'm working on learning how to make basically the equivalent of Microsoft Word text boxes for content that will load in the body of the page. I played around with some CSS padding div's, which seem to accomplish the look I want, BUT float around on the page and obscure other things--especially when I check on mobile. So I either need to keep learning more about those, and maybe how to assign absolute positions relative to other stuff on the page, or do it some other way. I could probably also just assign a background color to any given paragraph and then put a border around that--I will probably try that first, it seems easier.
Days ago, I also asked some folks on reddit about an idea I had for the Lonely Town portion of this site: the flashlight game I want to make. They said it would totally be possible with Javascript, and that Neil Ciciriega (of all people) actually made something like that once so I could look at his code if I wanted. Lots of useful links in that reddit thread, but I'm gonna copy them here as well, because I can.
The link to Neil's flashlight html code
Search results on the site CodePen for flashlight effects
Someone also suggested I try to just make a large (larger than any screen) black image with a transparent circle in the middle, and make that image draggable, so you're just dragging one image on top of another. I don't mind that idea, but it'll be my last-ditch "just do it as easily as possible" effort. Kind of like what I'm doing above with using bordered paragraphs for now, on Solus, instead of digging into CSS properties for the padded div classes/tags. Not sure if "class" is interchangeable with "tag" in html vocabulary. Hmm.
3.16.2025 - I began this website on the 14th. I haven't done too much with it so far, but I'm having fun carving out a little niche for myself on the internet. Today I made a repeating lobster-dancing pixel gif, along with some other pixel art for the site.
Yesterday I sketched up some ideas for how I'd like this website to look someday, and took some basic notes on html.
I feel like the hardest things to accomplish will be the things I'm willing to wait longest for--finishing touches, interactive elements, ambitious concepts which I won't be super upset if I can't do.
I am currently writing this blog entry in the html editor itself, because I'm not sure how to make a post yet. That should probably be the first practical thing I learn how to do!!