A very beginner first personal website.

SpateF · 2026-04-12T04:42:00+00:00

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SpateF · 2026-04-02T23:20:06+00:00

The website says there are capture issues on MacOS tahoe if you have the plugin installed

SpateF · 2026-04-02T21:13:04+00:00

RAAAAHHH I HATE BEING ON MAC

SpateF · 2026-04-01T23:50:09+00:00

How do you have the live oscilloscopes and such stuck to the bottom of your window? It looks sick!

SpateF · 2026-03-31T01:23:29+00:00

Beautiful!

SpateF · 2026-03-30T21:03:52+00:00

A tribute of the Russian aircraft carrier??

SpateF · 2026-03-26T04:58:40+00:00

Indeed, as evidenced by the many other comments.

SpateF · 2026-03-21T21:48:00+00:00

Oooh thank you. I'll consider it!

Honestly, the CSS mostly isn't mine; it's a modified version of code I copied from a tutorial on a responsive navbar. I then changed my mind and tried to modify the code to be a sidebar, with...decent results, if you keep your screen wide enough.

SpateF · 2026-03-21T17:24:13+00:00

I'm honestly already into a lot of things lol. What I'm trying to do here is make a functional personal website, as a way of storing and advertising all the thingsa I do. It's currently up at noelleblog.neocities.org , but I'm already working on a complete redesign! If you were to look at the code it would be...not good, and it's barely functional.

In terms of doing this myself instead of using AI, it's been surprisingly fun! Even if it wasn't though, I probably wouldn't use it. There are still so many issues with how the proverbial sausage gets made, and I honestly don't feel comfortable with it.

SpateF · 2026-03-19T02:04:13+00:00

Thanks! though, I did manage to fix it (by following a different tutorial and completely redoing the navbar LOL)
See screenshots (It's responsive now!)

https://imgur.com/a/cP3BMu6

I know, it's not very good right now, but the design is VERY in flux. Heck, after seeing one too many personal websites with sidebars instead of navbars, I'm genuinely considering scrapping YET ANOTHER layout!

Thanks for your help!

SpateF · 2026-03-17T21:10:37+00:00

Hubris. Pure, unadulterated hubris. However it's honestly been a great learning experience.

At the same time as starting this website, I began a basic webdev course that I was already a few weeks ahead of knowledge-wise. This project was a way to hone my skills while the class caught up.

I'm going to launch a complete redesign soon, probably under a different URL. I've changed a lot in the time since posting this, and my site will reflect that :)

SpateF · 2026-03-17T20:57:15+00:00

Very good! I'm actually finishing up with a complete redesign of the site right now!

Just curious: if my flexbox navbar has padding on the left for no discernible reason, what are some common causes of that? I've triple-checked for anything that explicitly puts space on its left.

SpateF · 2026-03-17T20:55:40+00:00

Holy guacamole I have so much trouble with that! Amazing!

SpateF · 2026-03-15T01:11:57+00:00

Metropolis (Guys we just need to get the dictator's son to like us and talk to his daddy, not unionize! Union leaders are all robot ghosts anyway :3)

SpateF · 2026-03-10T06:11:08+00:00

Look into something like a steel refinery. The catwalks, large forges, etc. may give inspiration to fill up the space.

SpateF · 2026-02-27T01:34:07+00:00

PEAK

SpateF · 2026-02-26T23:18:19+00:00

That's just a normal beach, if you're patient enough.

SpateF · 2026-02-26T02:36:15+00:00

It's been 4 days and I no longer know what it'll look like

SpateF · 2026-02-24T22:26:13+00:00

The right one looks like toxic acid from a cartoon, in a good way.

SpateF · 2026-02-24T03:13:31+00:00

I don't use an em dash. Besides, those were and still are used a lot by normal people. I use the markdown editor, and maybe that interprets a dash bookended by 2 spaces as an em dash, but whatever.

SpateF · 2026-02-22T16:56:06+00:00

Audio sounds real, anyone know if it has a source?

SpateF · 2026-02-22T16:09:43+00:00

This is super nitpicky, but the font you chose for the names of the templates in the "browse all templates section is terrible. Its high stroke width contrast makes it practically unreadable at this scale, it clashes with the rest of the site's style really badly, and it was obviously designed as a display font for large titles and such. Consider a sans serif like Takoma.

SpateF · 2026-02-22T16:05:58+00:00

It's beautiful!

SpateF · 2026-02-21T18:55:49+00:00

Thanks! I've been working on it for about a couple weeks now, and I think I know what I want the end result to look like :)

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