#imaginatorofthings

"Fall For Me" by Sleep Token

I adore that song too

🫵🏼 POINTING LOUDLY AT A FELLOW FALL FOR ME TRUTHER 🫵🏼

THEE Sleep Token song!!! It's just [dramatic sigh] so beautiful 🥺 10/10 deserves all the love.

Everyone go listen to it right now

I'd love to learn how to make my own neocities website (for fun? For a personal project??), so I was wondering if you could provide some tips and/or pointers for a first-timer.

Thank you!

HAHA well first of all i'm flattered that someone would think i'm skilled enough to be giving pointers in the first place. i still consider myself a novice when it comes to web design (for example, if you're wondering why every page on welcome to welcome home has its own CSS, it's because CSS is Way harder for me to wrap my head around than HTML) so i can't give any Super advanced tips, but i can at least write about what's helped me so far:

GUIDES. neocities has its own tutorial and list of HTML/CSS resources, but user-made guides are your best friend when it comes to figuring out where to go from there. a.n. lucas and pauli kohberger both have really good guides for beginners, but for the more advanced stuff, i found myself referencing the resources on solaria's webspace and sadgrl.online the most. w3schools is also very helpful when it comes to answering more specific questions like "how do i use two different fonts on the same page?" (and probably more.) if all else fails, then usually just googling "how to (x) in HTML" or "how to (x) in CSS" will yield at least one useful result. for making your website more accessible, there's the accessible net directory and this masterpost by foxpunk on tumblr.

it sounds obvious, but it helps to have a solid idea of what kind of site you want to build before you actually dive in, and then snoop around on neocities to get an idea of how other users approach the same topic. for example, i got the idea to start a welcome home wiki on neocities after being reminded of the 8:11 wiki on the same site, and then i spent a couple days just looking up stuff like "wiki" or "fansite" on neocities and then clicking on any page that caught my attention to study it.

layouts! there's no shame in using a premade one, and you can even learn more about HTML/CSS in real time just by messing around with the base code before implementing any intentional changes. sadgrl.online's layout builder is a VERY popular choice, since you can already do a lot with the basic options it offers and it's easy to further customize once you have it set up on your page; it's what i used to make welcome to welcome home. sadgrl.online's webmaster links also feature a bunch of other options under the "layouts" tag, and if none of those work for you, then you can even find something just by looking up template/templates/layout/layouts/HTML/CSS on neocities itself.

side note: if you're reading this and you want to make a wiki then you can also use this wikitable code. it came out after i had already established the Look of welcome to welcome home, so i probably won't implement it any time soon, but i TOTALLY WOULD HAVE if it was around when i first set the site up.

you can scale images up or down using percentage, with 100% being the image's default size. i don't know how helpful or acceptable that is, but i use it a lot.

don't feel pressured to get everything done at once, even if you expect people to be visiting your site frequently. usually if you just slap on an "under construction" gif or even just write "hey this site is still under construction" then people will understand. i don't think i've ever seen anyone get super huffy about slow updates on neocities, anyway.

EDIT: OH. GRAPHICS. i mention all of these on welcome to welcome home's front page but i Also wanted to note them here: betty's graphics and websets by lynn both have HUGE collections of background tiles and other graphics that work especially well if you're going for that old web charm. i also like to use this mirror of patterncooler for backgrounds bc of the customization options. you can also make your own background tile and then use a seamless tile maker like this if all else fails.

I'm pushing towards you some bibingka.

We love bibingka in this household!!

🥺🤲🍰⁉️

This is you: yaps a lot on the sideblog (here), but very good writing!! Keep up the good work 💗

lmaooooo 🙏🙏🙏 not me taking an ibuprofen right before seeing this 💀

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9. By sheer coincidence, I actually drew a long-time OC for the first time in ages yesterday:

This is Ells Robbins, the lead from my old webcomic The Historians, but I've had her since 2004, about a month and a half before I turned 15! Looking back on her, Ells was clearly an attempt by me to make a girl more like myself - a more masculine yet still cishet girl who was blunt, often crude, and above all obsessed with driving as fast as possible. And like Engie after her, I did give her a boyfriend, Clyde, to try to show myself that I didn't have to change myself for anyone and that I could be loved as I was. I'm not sure it's stuck either time, though.

22. Engineer has my thyroid disorder, Hashimoto's thyroiditis! Actually, she has most of my problems because she's an extremely rare case of me actually basing a character on myself, but I never really see Hashimoto's in media so I decided to change that.

This quick pseudo-reference shows how I depict her thyroid stuff.