sorry that was me, I opened your site in 17k new tabs... but probably a lot of it is from web crawlers, at least I believe most of the traffic on my sites isn't real people based on the numbers and distribution...
I should be working more on the next part of this fanfic, but instead I've posted the second part (not really a clear Part 2, because I veer off into a flashback that serves as a really good standalone story) on my Neocities site! I still need to make an actual index page for these...
@arcanaemia I feel like it’s getting more diverse and less pedantic and I’m really enjoying that, plus I feel like I had to rein myself in a bit stylistically when I originally wrote mine so I’m excited to see what I can do with a greater feeling of freedom to just make shit up.
I have added Spotify playlists to my fanfic site because that is just how I roll.
The one for the story itself is a new spinoff so it's still pretty short. The one for my OC pair is longer, and I apologize for the Creed song but I hope to make up for it with the THREE Hozier songs. I blame that damned Titan A.E. trailer for the Creed song.
@noellemitchell in this instance it is because different mastodon instances are fetching the page description for the link and likely not real people visiting
Yesterday I logged into my #Neocities account and was surprised to see in the stats that my #blog is getting consistent views, despite the fact that there's nothing on the homepage except a title lol.
I'm thinking I might write up something in #HTML for the homepage since I don't know enough #CSS to style a #web page. Better than nothing. 😆
If you have a website with neo cities, just know that the creator actually likes AI, and will add it again based on this post alone. Moratorium on freaking out about AI https://kyledrake.com/writings/ai
This is different from the sarcastic April 1st Daria chatbot, check the comments on the post for links to Github comments laying out the "real" chatbot
I released a "final" version of my #guile API for #neocities that also has a CLI tool.
It's a simple project to start learning about how does guile-hall work, get used to autotools and all that.
More complex interactions are doable, but depend on what you want.
If people were to "follow" your Neocities page, what would they want to see show up in their feeds? pages updated? new index.html entries added?
Interacting "read only" with your static site can be spoofed with some clever json or some light javascripting methink.
Hey uh, how hard is it to start a #neocities (#geocities ?) website if you don't know a single bit of #HTML and the last time you took a coding class was java 101 9 years ago?
@Cheesealicious Is not too bad honestly. I learned as I went along, my site isn't the most well-designed on the internet, but I'm reasonably happy with it and making small changes as I learn more.
You can do a lot with even basic knowledge, and there's a ton of great guides out there. I used this one: https://www.htmldog.com/guides/
So I'm currently toying around with NeoCities, and decided to trial it by building your classic mid '90s Geocities/Tripod/Angelfire pastiche website.
Some of the most important elements are already in place.
Tile background? Large font? Heading in bright pink with a shadow? Unusual colour choices? Random cat gifs? Under construction gif? Check! Check! Check!
In the true spirit of the '90s DIY web, some more pages (including the links page) are coming soon.
(I'm thinking of adding a page dedicated to either Britney or a nu-metal band.)
My only question is about whether drop shadows on text was prominent. I’m having trouble remembering how that effect would have been accomplished in the 90s, since I don’t think CSS got it until later. Would it have been something on the <font> tag only supported in Internet Explorer?
@ajsadauskas@neil@asklemmy As for chat, probably the best way to do that today is to use Web Sockets but style it to look like frames or a Java applet on the page.