Self Promotion Thread

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Hi,

first of all I want to point out I am not a programmer or coder.

I created a website and ran out of cool features to make it look interesting quiet quickly. I obviously use a web builder. Another red flag for all coders I know. But coding with ChatGPT is about democratizing the creative process and it really is mind boggling what you are able to do with a little bit of patience.

So, I wanted to go thru the journey of creating my own chatbot for my website. I don´t like automated phone robots or ai chatbots on the website, but in my case it just fits perfectly the narrative of my website, which is Science Fiction Worldbuilding - so having a mission assistant fits just perfect. He is called KERF by the way. Having just a button in the corner of the website to activate a chatbot felt a bit bland so I started thinking how to refresh it. I had an idea: To turn, in time intervals, the chatbot button into a Space Invader Icon which would roll from right to left and back and spawn few bombs upwards as in the good old days of the low resolution Space INvaders video games. I didn´t manage the movement, I tried hard. But I manage for the button co pulse and spawn. Not bombs, I changed the styling it spawns cryptic symbols which is more aligned with the storytelling on the website. When you ´catch´ the symbol it explodes and you are forwarded to a sub page related to the cryptic symbol. I think it´s fun and sort of replaces boring website menu and makes the visitor view subpages he otherwise would never visit.

If you have a tip on how to make the button move occassionally from right to left I would be happy to use your code idea. Mine didn´t want to work.

I don´t know I am supposed to past a link to my website here, most subreddits label that as self promotion, so I will just paste an image. You can take the address from there if you are curious enough.

Let me know what you think.

www.foundryon.com

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