Hello again, world. Yes, I know, nigh-aggravatingly-late as usual due to lack of motivation, hell the title joke I made for this doesn't even work because I first drafted this post like... 2 months ago when it was still Spring; but both you, me, and myself were all expecting that this was gonna happen, so let's just ignore that and move on to what's important, shall we?
That "important" being that, yes, finally, I've made an obviously-tangible update to the site's base CSS formatting. The font's custom now in just the way I like it, I ditched ALL of the really-really-old premade 5x5 pixel-font title images that I made years ago and replaced them with dynamic div elements (because why do font-designing yourself when you can get the computer to do it instead), and moved the rest of the pages to the new grid display system. Goodbye table elements from 2002, you served me well but you were outdated when I picked you up, and you sure as hell are more outdated now. I even gave the navigation bar's buttons a hover sound; that was also the hardest part, since I was an idiot and thought the "<audio>" element's name was "<sound>" and spent 4 hours trying to figure out why it wasn't working...
So yeah, big stuff, I know. This website actually looks slightly less amateur now, that's gotta be worth something, right? Well, it doesn't stop there, I also have shifted the site layout a bit. Many of the original pages have been struck from access for now, as I'm in the process of revamping them and don't think they're worth showing off their total lack of content at the moment. They'll return once they're updated and have something to exist for. But, there's also now a !new! page that's been started, the reviews page. If you ever considered to care about what I think about random games I've played, go over there to read them... once they're in, that is, I haven't made any yet, but each one will have images, and a unique theming for that particular page's content. Over the next several [INSERT NAME OF TIME UNIT HERE], I'll get to drafting them properly so this site, finally, has something you'd have a reason to go to it for!
Only took over 4 years for me to... oh, right, almost forgot about that! This site's been up for over FOUR years! That's a super long time (shocker, I know), and much longer than I personally expected to choose to ever maintain this site. If only I had actually made this post when I originally planned to back in mid-May when the actual anniversary was, but I am always unfashionably late as you may have figured, so that didn't end up happening...
Anyway, to summarize: I didn't forget I had a site to run, I was just semi-intentionally neglecting it, finally cleaned up the garbage that was half of the pages' HTML/CSS code, and I'm adjusting the direction I want to take it to one I can bother to care about somewhat. Until next time, where I'll have something available in the reviews tab, trust me.
This section holds many of the previous news posts. The especially ancient ones go to the 'Older Posts' section...
*ahem*
...is this thing on? Yes? Alright, good. Now then.
Would you even believe that I somehow forgot that I had a whole website I was supposed to care about? Well, I didn't actually, but I might as well have with the lack of any changes to it in... I dunno, over a year? Closer to 439 days to be exact, which is a lot more than the month or so I told myself I'd spend revamping the site to look better than "baby's first HTML". I also wish I had something to show for that, maybe I'd finally gotten somewhere in those creative exploits I'd referred to for a year before that? Surely I've done something more important than mope about doing nothing, right?
I'll leave you figure out the answer to that on your own, in fact I'll give you a hint: Nope! Not a thing, really. Or rather, nothing of value I consider showing to the public beyond telling you it exists. Y'know come to think of it this seems like a more overarching problem than I thought, but HEY, that's something I'll figure out on my own time, last thing I need to be doing is traumadumping on the internet, there's plenty of that to go 'round already, so let's just move on. Next on the chopping block, where I'm going to go from here.
Starting from this post's creation, I'll focus on finally making the backend of this site not hot garbage. So far it's just written into hard-coded HTML, and not even proper HTML either, still too much legacy stuff I'm using because it's easier (what do you mean you can define CSS outside of the 'style' keyword????). Maybe I'll use template HTML frames and insert them into a base display HTML? Something like that, I'll think about it more later.
Once that's done, I'll get to the finer details. I was thinking of a custom font that isn't stock-standard Verdana after all, and while I would want to use one made by yours truly, I don't know the first thing about that so I'll probably just find one that's thematic for my current style, as long as I don't go around changing that as well, which I might or might not. Then after that? Might put some actual content on here, and (I bet you haven't heard this one before) I've been spitballing ideas for what that might just be. Art's still a no-go, but I'd be abstracting it too much if I said that's the only form of self-expression I have, so I'll find something worthwhile here, probably something coding related at these current rates. As one might presume though, whether or not I'll commit to this insurmountable workload (read: the bare minimum to ask for from a personal website) is inconclusive, and while I'd hope I would lean to the 'likely so' side of the scale, speaking realistically it could go either way. Time will tell, I suppose!
So yeah, that'll be it for now. I'd speak more, but last I checked I only have 999.3MB of storage left and I'm not confident I'd be able to condense my full words into that small of a space without it losing all coherent meaning, so I have to cut it here.