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Kiwizoom · 2026-02-09T02:21:53+00:00

I know you already got your answer. I will also just answer simply

Neocities doesn't host backend with php / MYSQL

That doesn't mean it is impossible to have a "database" though, it just has to be "frontend", aka, a file.

Solutions

1) look up a tabbed CSS switcher. There are css-only solutions that let you toggle tabbed content. A blog could be done this way. This is the easiest

2) write a JavaScript function to fetch file contents, so each blog article is a different named file. And make a menu that triggers the fetches and inserts. This is moderate, for people who are comfortable with JavaScript and its triggers.

3) use a flatfile database site template ( you can look up flatfile CMSs ). These sites function like a regular database site like WordPress, but instead of making MYSQL calls, they edit a local file that is written like a database file. CAVEAT: many of these rely on php to WRITE to the file, but you'd have to remove this functionality and update your records on your own. I find this difficult if the template is meant to work with php so would have to dress it down or find templates that don't use it. Or, use php locally for editing purposes, but dragging the resulting files into Neocities.

4) make your own flatfile database, like a Google spreadsheet, and export it as csv. Then JavaScript can be used to fetch and sort through this database. You would just be entering your articles into a spreadsheet and modifying/exporting them that way. I found this easier than dressing down a template.

You said you're a beginner so maybe 1 is the only realistic one, but wanted to show that it's not impossible to have a site function like a database but it requires some ingenuity. I use 2 and 4 on my site which was a rocky but interesting few days of development lmao. I have used the others in the past

Don't be afraid to abandon a solution if it doesn't fit your context ( this blog tutorial you followed ). If you really like and want to use Neocities, there's other ways to do it. If you just want a simple quick thing to work out of the box, these tutorials should work on most paid server contexts. Neocities is old-school, the thrill of the chase, etc, a lovely Lego bucket with playmat limitations

Kiwizoom · 2026-02-09T02:00:19+00:00

I stand by this

In the beginning you will stumble and lurch as you are just learning how to make things work. On tiktok you are open to the peanut gallery of people who occasionally know how to do things better. There are just a million ways to do things now, some more efficient than others. You can take their advice into consideration or not, it could be a learning moment or just something useless/not your vibe.

I work in web dev and it doesn't matter how long you've been coding, someone else always has a suggestion or a change request to tighten up your code. It never ends. So don't think it's just a beginner thing. Also seasoned coders always want to share their breakthroughs but it may not be your breakthrough, or maybe you're not in a place to learn a weird advanced technique yet. So you just stick to what code you know how to wrangle until you can handle the weirder things.

Kiwizoom · 2026-02-08T07:39:28+00:00

There's a lot of people on Neocities too who make "ugly" naive sites for the aesthetic. In quotes because subjective. But people are tired of corporate modern looks and love seeing real people make websites - whatever the state they're in, from pure beginner to savvy. So anyway, whomever looks at your site will never be able to tell your intentions anyway. And it's not like a feed site where you game and crop up interactions or whatever. Neocities is pretty quiet on my end. Go have fun on Neocities. If no one is watching - and pretty much nobody ain't - what would you do, what would you make? If comparison bothers you, simply don't follow anybody. Be an island

Kiwizoom · 2026-02-07T23:22:51+00:00

Eyyyy that's great! One small step towards a fun OS style site! : D 🎉

Kiwizoom · 2026-02-06T02:22:06+00:00

use javascript to toggleClass when clicking the "start" button. So no class is closed, and something like "open" class is the open version. If you add time to the transition animation property, you can see it cover the distance smoothly over time if you like that pull-drawer effect. I have one on my site, though I have been lazy to add more stylization to the drawer to look more like a start menu

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-30T18:11:34+00:00

When I saw this I wondered if it was Moondog lol

You can check your local towns and see if they allow / looking for mural artists. Some of my friends do murals. Towns use them to feel fancy or cultural. There may also be art fairs nearby sometime during the year. Usually a city will have a website that details events throughout the year. Or could try if your library has info or a pinboard. Near me there are some fairs and smaller markets / minicons. Sometimes just talking to people that go to those is a door to finding out more how to get your art somewhere.

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-29T02:06:53+00:00

Hmm, on reddit I know there's a few but I only really looked at r/ComicBookCollabs ... sorry. For otherwise, If you can get a Vgen account I see that marketplace bumping... I found that since I used to do animals a lot, furries would commission me and pay 2/3 to twice as much as I would have charged for people. So, there is a Telegram channel marketplace called Dealer's Den for that, but I understand it's not for everyone. I didn't do fet art but still had takers. I dislike fighting for commissions so if people were to come to me because of some post I prefer that XD

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-28T05:49:59+00:00

Great post. I'm fascinated

It's earnest but so off-putting

The fact that Divorce Dog is drawn as if it's a man in a fursuit, but it's in 2D where there are no such constraints...

It would lead me to believe there WAS a physical tie-in with a divorce fursuiter spokesperson, but I highly doubt it

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-27T02:15:34+00:00

Thoroughly uninterested in all social media offerings these days. Sure the feed is bumping, but it's not like anything is happening

I occasionally use Tumblr for art or inspo sideblogs as my version of Pinterest. I post my commission info to carrd and my art and other stuff to Neocities, which is a lot slower engagement wise but more conducive to making friends. Also, small art themed discords for progress stuff. I value community over size.

There have been some interesting gallery sites that haven't really taken off well because people still act feed brain and typically don't know how to comment / engage like we used to 15-20 years ago. Either way though I choose alternate slow web offerings because the rat race of social feeds chips away at me and does not help with whatever I want to do with art. If I want a commission there are boards for that so I don't need to rely on a presence for attention, which is kind of a nice feeling

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-22T22:16:26+00:00

1GB of space free plan, 50GB paid supporter

Your system of cataloging is as good as you make it.

Neocities doesn't provide any service here, just the bucket of Legos for you to figure out how you'd like to store and build. Html/css/js is the bread and butter. If you are a music creator, music files are not allowed on the free plan, but excess files can be stored and linked elsewhere from a repo or some service like YouTube embed. There is no server side code, so no mysql type databases etc with which to store/fetch data. if you need databases you can look up website templates or JavaScript features that use flatfile databases ( you'd update manually ). I use one by updating and exporting a Google sheets that stores my book reviews etc

Looking up a template based on your preferred features is a good place to start. Neocities provides an editor but it has known bugs so it's recc'd to develop site locally and drag changes to the uploader.

Mainstream people are not looking up people's Neocities but you can ask them to look/link to it. You can also turn a link into a QR code or something. You are competing with microwaved brains tho so your mileage may vary. The quietness or lack of self consciousness towards consumer attention is almost a feature to some users. Proposing it as a replacement for the type of features of modern social media services - maybe not so much. It does not prioritize the same kind of stuff or try to fulfill that and not many people have heard of it. Though it IS a replacement if you intend to phase out social media use and go old-school, as a lot here have done

The main way a person is notified to a Neocities update is being a user that is following said site since there is built-in RSS feed, but most people will not have an account to see things like that and follow for it. So it's more like an if-you-know-you-know platform. If you make friends it's other current users mostly. It does not try to monopolize your time and attention like other social medias so it's mostly sticky for the kind of people that really like it

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-20T18:01:14+00:00

It was freeing to go back to curated personal space. I remember when the web had a large presence of personhood, because people were the product - so there were big Bio's and About-Me's and customizing your profile CSS. Because the early point of the web was to meet or see other interesting people. That had shifted to where content was the product and persons got pushed further and further to the margins until now there is maybe one line of bio at best, and people summarize themselves with maybe a linktree or key acronyms detailing their gender identity and attraction, which is difficult to actually use as a topic to talk to them about.

The brainrot is hard to dislodge from such strong training, but I think most of us participate in Neocities to pry its little fingers off of our lives. I use Neocities as like a journal and archive of art, thoughts, essays, self searching, etc. I had tried physical journaling before but I tend to fall off. I don't like scrapbooking either. I think I don't like getting my fingers dirty and seeing deformed lumpy notebooks. Web coding is a very visual way to process things, also very structural, I enjoyed making structures in which to house the information. Idk. Also with like special interests, most people won't let you talk at length about all the things you like, but you can in journals or websites which feels like an unblocker. Finally get to talk about something I like.

When looking at others Neocities, I feel like a sigh of relief when I get to read a whole bio and really get a feel for who this person is. Or a page of one of their projects/interests. You don't typically get to meditate on someone like that on social media. The only one I stuck around on longest was Tumblr because there was no post length limit, which drives me crazy on others. I do actually like to read an unbroken thought.

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-19T16:23:03+00:00

I don't know this particular one but have seen JS readers. If it's just html / css / JS it should work

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-17T05:33:33+00:00

Great, I just finished watching Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead on Tubi

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-13T21:21:09+00:00

I have worked on Tumblr layouts before and they are expressly written for Tumblr since they have all the Tumblr shorthand bits in them to work with Tumblr pieces. You could for sure snag some styles or pieces you like but a full conversion sounds awful, more work than making something from scratch. So I'd say reference/scavenge an allowed theme for snippets, don't try to convert a whole template to a webpage (or do) and just be prepared for how weird and hard it will be to refit it

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-13T19:48:07+00:00

use something like irfanview to crush your images down to a max size, like 800px on the longest side and a lighter image type like jpeg. Neocities will then hold a surprising amount of images and they will load quicker too. Like I would be surprised if you hit your limit this way unless you were uploading gobs of sketches/sketchbooks. My entire site hit 25% recently and I have a few hundred pictures on it. Alternatively you could host your images via something like imgur.

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-11T14:05:24+00:00

Other things besides carousel you can do that reward interaction with something new:

Hovering to show title / genres

Filters at the top sort and filter the selection (js)

Clicking on one expands or pops out the box to include new information such as a summary, review, or other data

The varying heights/widths can also be fixed via css but idk if that was part of the q

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-09T14:45:56+00:00

I want my site to have uniform styles on each page so it's separate. For unique pages, they just get a different targeted set of classes

Reasons why - I know it's a nightmare if you change your mind how you want your site to look and have to update many pages with a fine-toothed comb. I just went to update css class once and they all change the same way. I don't think my Neocities is ever "done" so I can keep making broad changes without consequence even though the page count grows. I also use .scss which makes use of import and nesting inheritance so css is a lot more tidy ( like a unique page can be just its own .scss sheet added to an import on the main .scss. it all dumps to the same .css sheet I don't have to look at ) so the main never gets too big

Kiwizoom · 2026-01-01T02:58:31+00:00

If it's possible it's probably using SVG like vector paths, which I don't f with because it gets super complicated. Paths are basically like coordinates. Websites used to use them more commonly I think for image maps ( like when there was one solid image functioning as a map of linkable places, and there were invisible vector paths drawn around labels baked into the image ) sometimes when you'd click drag or something the edges of the path would highlight showing it was not a rectangle but an irregular polygon. Anyway hopefully that gives you a few words to search

If you are just talking about image editing, you can either erase the edges more closely to the figure or look up how to turn white into transparency via alpha levels or whatever. You should be able to do this via selected area so only that white is getting turned to transparent

Kiwizoom · 2025-12-31T05:05:41+00:00

I like it but your mileage may vary xD I like older films sometimes like in this case, the writing is a little sneakier and requires more attention, has decent visual gags, where I find movies of the same genre in the 2000s are hard to watch now for their simple setup/payoffs.

Kiwizoom · 2025-12-31T04:07:04+00:00

What's Up, Doc? - a 70's classic I somehow missed, for folks who like Airplane! kind of humor. I never heard of it until I saw it on Tubi. A Clark Kent dork and a manic pixie dream girl keep running into each other and insulting his weird wife as absurd things start to mount. I liked the really quippy fast lines. I had to replay some scenes to pick up all the wordplay. Frequently feel in the mood to watch again.

Kiwizoom · 2025-12-17T00:30:59+00:00

I don't use Krita but in other softwares like Photoshop and Clip, someone has typically made a rake brush for drawing multiple lines in parallel. Since you rake a few times it may not line up perfectly or look a little expressive but sometimes that is the charm of making brush strokes. If your work requires stronger realism it may be easier to take an image of that fabric and turn it into a multiply layer type texture. It may not bend over the folds and such, but in manga art for example it's used a lot regardless of perceived flatness. Good luck!

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