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𝐀𝐌𝐁𝐑𝐎𝐒𝐈𝐀 : 𝐀𝐍 𝐀𝐃𝐌𝐈𝐍 𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝐁𝐘 𝐀𝐃𝐎𝐑𝐀 – LIVE PREVIEW @stambroserpg !

🐝  *  ―  𝐁𝐋𝐎𝐆 𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐑𝐓𝐄𝐑 𝐏𝐀𝐂𝐊 𝟎𝟎𝟐: 𝐄𝐏𝐇𝐄𝐌𝐄𝐑𝐀𝐋.  (  it’s finally time for the community voted blog starter pack.  if anyone is interested in the poll results let me know and i’ll find a way to show them ― although i can tell you the results i took most to heart on this project: dark colors, fantasy, academia aesthetic and yellow flowers.  anyway, now onto the grand reveal of everything that is included in this pack.  you’ll find a icon coloring psd, a icon / banner template with four different styles, pre-made dash icons and post dividers, and a google doc template in a single muse and a multimuse version.  it’s all made to aesthetically fit together although you can definitely pick and choose what you actually need.  also feel free to edit it however you need.  )

― HOW TO USE

please don’t claim as your own, and don’t delete the credit on the doc.  you can change all the colors / sizes / whatever, but the credit has to stay.

you can find this pack here.  it’ll lead you to my payhip, where you can download a pdf file containing links to all the different templates and graphics.  as always, it’s on a pay what you want basis so it’s possible to get it for free if you set the amount to 0.  ( if you’d like to leave a little tip i’d very much appreciate it, though. )

to save the doc go to file → make a copy.

⠀⠀⠀ ⁀⠀⠀⠀HELLO ⋆ a 𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐩𝐡𝐢𝐜𝐬 template

a free spotify embed template to fulfill all your embedding ( ? ) needs ! this template is made entirely by scratch & requires some photoshop knowledge ── smart objects . if you have any questions , my inbox is always open ! happy editing ! ♡

GRIMOIRE – a photoshop template🌜

This vintage book template is included in my 2022 Halloween Pack! You can download it HERE for free or by following the source link.

Please remember to credit me if you use this template.

Likes and reblogs are appreciated! If you would like to support me, here is the link to my Ko-fi, but please do not feel any pressure to donate!

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“i miss the old internet” “we’ll never have websites like the ones from the 90s and early 2000s ever again” “i’m tired of social media but there’s nowhere to go”

HOLD ON!

personal websites and indie web development still very much exist! it may be out of the way to access and may not be the default internet experience anymore, but if you want to look and read through someone’s personally crafted site, or even make your own, you can still do it! here’s how:

use NEOCITIES! neocities has a built in search and browse tools to let you discover websites, and most importantly, lets you build your own website from scratch for free! (there are other ways to host websites for free, but neocities is a really good hub for beginners!)

need help getting started with coding your website? sadgrl online has a section on her website dedicated to providing resources for newbie webmasters!

HTML (HyperText Markup Language) and CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) are the core of what all websites are built on. many websites also use JS (JavaScript) to add interactive elements to their pages. w3schools is a useful directory of quick reference for pretty much every HTML/CSS/JS topic you can think of.

there is also this well written and lengthy guide on dragonfly cave that will put you step by step through the basics of HTML/CSS (what webpages are made from), if that’s your sort of thing!

stack overflow is every programmer’s hub for asking questions and getting help, so if you’re struggling with getting something to look how you want or can’t fix a bug, you may be able to get your answer here! you can even ask if no one’s asked the same question before.

websites like codepen and jsfiddle let you test HTML/CSS/JS in your browser as you tinker with small edits and bugfixing.

want to find indie websites outside the scope of neocities? use the search engine marginalia to find results you actually want that google won’t show you!

you can also use directory sites like yesterweb’s link section to find websites in all sorts of places.

if you are going to browse the indie web or make your own website, i also have some more personal tips as a webmaster myself (i am not an expert and i am just a small hobbyist, so take me with a grain of salt!)

if you are making your own site:

get expressive! truly make whatever you want! customize your corner of the internet to your heart’s content! you have left the constrains of social media where every page looks the same. you have no character limit, image limit, or design limit. want to make an entire page or even a whole website dedicated to your one niche interest that no one seems to be into but you? go for it! want to keep a public journal where you can express your thoughts without worry? do it! want to keep an art gallery that looks exactly how you want? heck yeah! you are free now! you will enjoy the indie web so much more if you actually use it for the things you can’t do on websites like twitter, instead of just using it as a carrd bio alternative or a place to dump nostalgic geocities gifs.

don’t overwhelm yourself! if you’ve never worked with HTML/CSS or JS before, it may look really intimidating. start slow, use some guides, and don’t bite off more than you can chew. even if your site doesn’t look how you want quite yet, be proud of your work! you’re learning a skill that most people don’t have or care to have, and that’s pretty cool.

keep a personal copy of your website downloaded to your computer and don’t just edit it on neocities (or your host of choice) and call it a day. if for some reason your host were to ever go down, you would lose all your hard work! and besides, by editing locally and offline, you can use editors like vscode (very robust) or notepad++ (on the simpler side), which have more features and is more intuitive than editing a site in-browser.

you can use ctrl+shift+i on most browsers to inspect the HTML/CSS and other components of the website you’re currently viewing. it’ll even notify you of errors! this is useful for bugfixing your own site if you have a problem, as well as looking at the code of sites you like and learning from it. don’t use this to steal other people’s code! it would be like art theft to just copy/paste an entire website layout. learn, don’t steal.

don’t hotlink images from other sites, unless the resource you’re taking from says it’s okay! it’s common courtesy to download images and host them on your own site instead of linking to someone else’s site to display them. by hotlinking, every time someone views your site, you’re taking up someone else’s bandwidth.

if you want to make your website easily editable in the future (or even for it to have multiple themes), you will find it useful to not use inline CSS (putting CSS in your HTML document, which holds your website’s content) and instead put it in a separate CSS file. this way, you can also use the same theme for multiple pages on your site by simply linking the CSS file to it. if this sounds overwhelming or foreign to you, don’t sweat it, but if you are interested in the difference between inline CSS and using separate stylesheets, w3schools has a useful, quick guide on the subject.

visit other people’s sites sometimes! you may gain new ideas or find links to more cool websites or resources just by browsing.

if you are browsing sites:

if the page you’re viewing has a guestbook or cbox and you enjoyed looking at the site, leave a comment! there is nothing better as a webmaster than for someone to take the time to even just say “love your site” in their guestbook.

that being said, if there’s something on a website you don’t like, simply move on to something else and don’t leave hate comments. this should be self explanatory, but it is really not the norm to start discourse in indie web spaces, and you will likely not even be responded to. it’s not worth it when you could be spending your time on stuff you love somewhere else.

take your time! indie web doesn’t prioritize fast content consumption the way social media does. you’ll get a lot more out of indie websites if you really read what’s in front of you, or take a little while to notice the details in someone’s art gallery instead of just moving on to the next thing. the person who put labor into presenting this information to you would also love to know that someone is truly looking and listening.

explore! by clicking links on a website, it’s easy to go down rabbitholes of more and more websites that you can get lost in for hours.

seeking out fansites or pages for the stuff you love is great and fulfilling, but reading someone’s site about a topic you’ve never even heard of before can be fun, too. i encourage you to branch out and really look for all the indie web has to offer.

A resource for writers

Spinning: The process of winding fiber into thread or yarn. Can be done with a drop spindle or a spinning wheel. Can also be done on industrial machinery such as a spinning mule.

Plying: Taking two or more strands of spun thread and twisting them together to make a stronger yarn. Can be done on a spindle, spinning wheel, or machine.

Weaving: The process of forming cloth by interlacing two sets of threads, the warps (longitudinal) and the wefts (latitudinal), on a loom.

Bead Weaving: A type of weaving in which beads are woven into the fabric. This can be done with or without a loom.

Tapestry: A type of weaving in which only the weft threads can be seen from the front of the work, with all warp threads hidden on the back. Tapestries weave an image into the front of the work.

Nålbinding: A historic precursor to knitting, still practiced by the Nanti people of Peru. Nålbinding creates fabric by creating interlocking loops of yarn with a single-eyed needle. Nålbinding differs from knitting and crochet in that, in nålbinding, the entire length of the working yarn must be passed through each loop made.

Knitting: The process of forming cloth by interlocking loops of yarn. Knitting is most commonly done with two or more needles held in the hands, but can also be done with knitting looms or machines. The two most common methods of hand knitting are the English and Continental styles.

Crochet: The process of forming cloth by interlocking loops of yarn. This is most commonly done with a crochet hook, but can be done with the fingers. Crochet can also be done on looms. Whereas many stitches are active at any given time in knitting, in crochet, each stitch is finished before another is made.

Macramé: The process of creating textiles by making knots in cords. The main knots used in macramé are square knots and half-hitches.

Chinese Knotting: The process of knotting cord into decorations and charms.

Felting: The process of creating cloth by matting fibers together. In wet felting, fibers are exposed to water and then pressed and agitated to join the fibers together. In needle felting, fibers are joined by repeatedly being stabbed with specialized needles.

Rope Making: The process of braiding or twisting fibers together to create rope.

Sennit: The process of creating cord by braiding dried fibers.

Sewing: Using a needle and thread to join pieces of fabric. Sewing is done either by hand or machine. Sewing can be used to create garments and other items or to tailor preexisting items. Sewing can be either constructive (creating objects) or decorative (adorning objects).

Darning: A method of mending holes and worn areas in fabric. Darning can be either hand sewn or done with a machine, and weaves threads to fill in holes within fabric.

Embroidery: A form of sewing in which various stitches are added onto a preexisting fabric or item. Originally used for mending clothing, embroidery stitches are now also used decoratively. Embroidery can be done only with thread, but may also incorporate beads, sequins, and other decorative notions, such as beetle wings.

Cross-stitch: A type of embroidery in which the thread is sewn in X-shaped stitches across fabric.

Needlepoint: A type of embroidery in which yarn is stitched through an open weave canvas.

Tatting: The process of lace-making by looping and knotting thread. Tatting can be done with a shuttle, with a needle, or with a combination of tatting and crocheting techniques called cro-tatting.

Appliqué: The process of attaching one piece of fabric on top of a larger piece. Originally done to mend fabric, appliqué is now commonly used as decoration.

Patchwork: The process of sewing small pieces of fabric together to create a larger piece. This is often done to form a pattern or image.

Quilting: The process of stitching three or more layers of fabric together. Quilting is typically used to make blankets. Fabric layers can either be quilted by hand, usually with the aid of a quilting hoop, tied, or quilted using a domestic sewing machine or a longarm machine.

Banner Making: The process of creating a flag or banner. Banner making incorporates many other forms of needlework, such as patchwork, sewing, and embroidery.

This is a really good app for TOPIK prep, or for people who just want a daily study app! It’s called FunPik and is free on both iOS & android!

PROS:

Mock tests (reading section only) for both TOPIK I & II with a built-in timer

Daily challenges; perfect if you just want to do a few minutes of studying without wasting time deciding what & how to study

3 different games: identify a photo, choose the missing word in a sentence, and unscramble a sentence (honestly the timer on these can make it pretty difficult, but it's a good goal to work towards)

Explanations!!! When you check which questions you got wrong, there's a short explanation about why the correct answer is correct (seriously, why doesn't every TOPIK app have this?)

The youtube channel...okay, technically not part of the app itself, but it links to the 펀픽 channel where you can watch short lectures about how to answer different questions and other study tips. The focused lectures are a more recent addition, so I hope they'll be adding more videos in the future~

Analysis of your progress, including how well you do on different types of questions, an estimation of how close you are to your target level, and how you spend your time in the app

Gameification for motivation~ Get those coins and study streaks! The coins are used to buy "historical relics" which gives you a random photo & description of various landmarks and things around Korea. Adds a little bit of history & culture learning!

CONS

I wish it had a friends list to add to the game aspect and be more competitive/supportive. You can see a ranking list of all users, but I don't care about random strangers lol

The sentence games are too hard for me (not enough time to think, need to be able to immediately answer if you want to finish/do well) and there's no way to adjust the level or turn off the timer. I don't know if the game levels change if you set your target TOPIK level lower

No listening section ㅠㅠ

No writing, but that’s kinda understandable since it'd need a person to score your writing

#bleach, psd coloring [25]

pt-br: a. dê like ou reblog se baixar ou gostar; b. credite-me quando usar; c. não reposte, repasse ou diga que este coloring foi feito por você; d. opiniões e amor são sempre bem vindos na ask. extra: como baixar x

eng: a. like or reblog if download or like; b. credit me if you use; c. don't repost or claim this coloring; d. opinions and love are always welcome in the ask. extra: how to download x

I’ve made a google doc collection of 150 useful design and art resources! Whether youre just starting commissions or want to make your workflow more streamlined, I recommend checking it out

The full list is below the read more, but I suggest looking at the google doc as well sincce it will be updated more often. 

Hello!!!!

In my quest to get people to make more zines I have made 2 print layout templates for Canva (free easy graphic design program)

16 Page Zine

48 Page Zine

These are for print, so you lay out your pages out of order so once the booklet is put together they are in the right order. My brain really struggles with numbers so I find it easier to lay out my pages chronologically, and then copy and paste them over. You can then delete the numbers and divider line on the template. I suggest numbering your pages on your chronological copy both for yourself and your reader. If you are printing on a home printer, print double sided and select short edge binding.

Go forth and make zines!

CSS-only URL tooltips tutorial

I’ve been asked a few times how I’ve made these tooltips on my blog:

To do this, we need to use this:

a[href*="http"]{ position: relative; }

This line selects every anchor tag (link) that contains http. This will include any link with http or https, and ignore any links that are just pages (like /about), so keep that in mind.

I added position: relative; just to make sure that our tooltip will appear next to the link, since we will be using position:absolute; for this.

Now, for the tooltip

Energy Management

A human-based organization method

click on images for better resolution; images also available here (link to google drive)

Other posts that may be of interest:

Getting stuff done: How to deal with a lack of motivation

Flexible time-blocking: A more breathable way to get things done