Last week I made a one page mini zine full of random things that Iv never put online. It was super fun to make and Im enjoying the weird mix of digital and non digital that a printed zine has. I actualy made a few prints of it myself and gave them to my favourite family members at an event over the weekend and its really nice to have something physical to give people as a gift.
ANYWAY, long story short, Its something Id like to do more of in the future, and maybe some of you enjoy it tooooo! Are there any zines you have collected? Do you make them? Do you like printed or digital ones more? Talk about zines!
P.S. This was the guide I followed for a single page zine. I guess there are also other guides too for bigger zines! If you want to grab a copy of the zine I did, it'll be on sale at the Glasgow Zine Fest (and here) Thanks to Emreed who is super cool for handlinging printing and running the stand n everything
If you'd like tips or feedback from me or anyone else on the forum, post a link to your site/page here! If there are any particular things you are wondering about (like how can I improve the navbar, does X page look good etc) say so too!
Feel free to provide feedback on other sites too, but please keep criticism constructive!
Hello! Please write dumb pomes here! The only rule is that you must write now, it cant have been posted anywhere before or written offline!
I will start!
The moose is tall, they eat lots of grass, oh moose, why are you so tall! The moose does not say, the moose does not care, they are a moose, tall and fair
I just wanted to share a little trick I use for preparing images for the web. This is super handy if you are uploading screenshots or photographs to your site on a regular basis.
This guide requires a Mac using any vaguely modern OS.
First make sure you have ImageOptim installed in your Applications folder (its free)
Open Automator (it comes with your Mac) and create a new Automator Application; like this one:
Code
PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin:
cd "$HOME" || exit
/Applications/ImageOptim.app/Contents/MacOS/ImageOptim '/users/daniel/Desktop/image-output'
(Change the shell script to your name instead of "daniel":wink:
Save the autormator app to your desktop as "Web Compress Image". Done!
What does it do: It creates an app on your desktop called "Web Compress Image", when you drag and drop an image onto that app it will..
Copy the image into a new folder so the original is not changed.
Resize the image to a max of 1000px wide (plenty big enough for any website)
Convert the image to a jpeg so it loads faster on the web
Runs ImageOptim on the image so that its fully compressed.
You can then upload the new compressed image to your website, and it was all done in one mouse move!
Handy extra tip: If you use Transmit for uploading files, you can go to Servers/Save as Droplet and make a ":grin:roplet" app that allows you to drag your image onto the droplet where it will be automaticity uploaded and a link will be copied to your clipboard!
I just wanted to take a moment to think about Wikipedia and to encourage people to take part in it if they have time!
If you did not know; Wikipedia (the online encyclopaedia site) is a free community run site. It has no ads; its entirely run by its community. That community has to write articles, update articles constantly with new info and manage all the spam and rubbish that any large internet site receives on a daily basis!
Its one of the few and last parts of the true early web spirit of free information.
The best thing you can do to support Wikipedia is to write and update articles there! If you see info that is outdated, update it! If you know of something that's missing from the site, make an article for it!
It does not have to be perfect to start with, other people will improve it over time; the point is that without this kind of work, we may one day loose the site, and I think that would be super sad. Wikipedia servers billions of people, but less than a hundred thousand actually contribute articles to it.
There are some interesting points made here! Definitely some misunderstanding about the nature of the web revival verses 90s aesthetics that perhaps I should clarify in my article more (We don't all want 90s aesthetics, thats just a style a lot of us use)
I think the thing they really miss though is that:
I don't think the web revival will ever be the ENTIRE internet, its just one small part of it.
These sites are not tryna solve any technical issues, its an artistic movement and the point is too have fun!
If you wanna give it a read though Id love to hear other peoples thoughts!
This is a topic for describing your life! What kind of place do you live in, who do you live with, whats kinda pets do you keep, whats your day like, what do you eat for dinner most, what kind of job/school do you do? Anything that you think describes your life right now, try to write at least a paragraph!
Partly Im curious to hear about some of the lives behind the faces on the forum, but I think also it might be intresting for anyone reading this forum as an archive in the future, like a time capsule! (Hello future! )
Please don't share any personally identifiable information though!
Hello! I wrote a guide on how to make a website, it also covers the web revival as a whole! Read it, share it, stick it in a stew! (That's a lord of the rings reference..)
I'm not a huge fan of AI art in general, but I was playing around with https://nightcafe.studi and its kinda fun! You can watch the image developing like a Polaroid
Here are some images of "Melonland" that it came up with:
Due to various circumstances and a joke from the news section getting out of hand (Melon's Manifesto "All the best things start as jokes":wink: and input from Dojidave and Vukky we now have a never ending multiplayer worm!
This is a general health check on the forum to make sure its going in the best direction for everyone and to try and spot anything I should be working on to improve it
Feel free to vote twice if 2 options suit you, it does not matter how long youve been on the forum you should still have your say! Also please comment below if you'd like to say more about your experience using the forum!
Random questions! (Optional if you waanna say)
When was the last time you made a post / started a topic?
Did people reply to you and were you happy with those replies?
What inspired you to post or what stopped you from making a post recently?
Have you learned anything on the forum and/or do you find useful/good info here?
What's the main thing you visit the forum to see/d:ha:say?
Welcome to the chess table, here you can play the great game of chess! See chess rules here
You can see the current status of the board below, I will announce in chat each time the board is updated, so please take into account that people may have made moves after the last board update.
To play simply say your colour and move (e.g. PINK - KNIGHT to B5). You must wait for someone else to make a move before you can post again. Also if this is your first time posting, pick the colour that follows the previous post (e.g. if the last post was PINK, yours is PURPLE) and to stop cheating, try to always play with the same colour! (so if you start on the pink team stay on the pink team!)
Moves that break the rules may cause the game to reset back to the last valid point, I will announce if that happens and update the board accordingly. GOOD LUCK!
One piece of lore I like to think about is how landing pages (big empty pages with an enter button like on my site) were originally intended as a place to put your webrings, and they are super handy for that even today!
What lore do you know about the old web? (Specificity related to website making!)
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