Being less tech savy is fine; tech is great but its just the brush, you're the artist
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Also Im glad my e-mail was helpful (assuming you're the same Ripupz )! Im sure you will have your own web world in no time!
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It was like this lil club you could join by sending about 12 euro to the Beano publishing house and they would send you a membership card and like some mech and they'd write to you on your birthday and stuff. When I was older they also sent me a platinum lifetime membership card! The club shutdown in 2010, but I still consider myself a lifetime member
Thats a great start for an early site, and I know you will be EXCELLENT at everything you put your mind too, it just takes time, and even if your not always excellent (no one is), its still worth it because you only get one life and you might as well enjoy it
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I dont have an answer for you, but I totally get the vibe you mean and I think its a really fascinating idea for a webring. For me Iv never been against people selling things on their sites, so long as it doesn't spoil the spirit and fun of the site (not to toot my own horn but as far as I know my gift shop is one of the few places that plays with that idea, Iv never seen anyone copy it).
Id love to see a ring of sites that sell weird stuff and gives that feeling of an Aladdin's cave of unexpected treasures at fair prices. Its the biggest reason I go to Amazon most of the time, it's for that feeling of exploring a shop even if you're not buying.
Wow look at all these people with 80s anime avatars Are you guys starting some sort of secret society!!
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I love making things because you become much closer to yourself but also gain insight into the world
I think thats a really lovely line and very true.
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Wow thats an ASCIItastic website! (my new word of the day) I hope you enjoy your stay!
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Wow a dissertation on retro web design in the modern day, that sounds very cool; you will be the arbiter of how future scholars will judge us, please be kind! (No please be truthful!) I hope you'll share it when your done
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Hmm its a good question and you can apply it to almost all corporate culture; I think it's to do with professionalism; I find myself asking "What is professional?" what does that term mean? Particularly what does it mean in terms of design. Partly its just a made up idea and partly its about things that have a consistent utility and quality; a corporate graphic needs to reliably convey a message without a risk of misunderstanding.
Thats the ultimate answer RISK. Creativity is risky! For every 10 great personal sites, there are a 100 broken or unfinished sites that just didn't work out (I have dozens of sites that never made it to the internet). For art its even worse; I bet for every 10 successful artists there are 10,000 unsuccessful ones (I know people in this community don't like to apply good/bad judgments on creativity, and for good reason; however the wider world does make those judgments and can be very harsh). That level of creative loss is fine for individuals, but if your a professional designer you typically cant go to your job and burn 99% of your time on unsuccessful ideas. So you find a trend thats already working and recognized as socially acceptable and you use that instead.
Thats why so many TV shows, movies and games are all remakes or just very similar; creativity is too risky for todays economics!
I'm not sure there is an easy solution.. Partly we need kinder economics that allow more room for companies to fail and make mistakes without endangering their existence and the jobs of their employees. Additionally as individuals we need to be more forgiving for the mistakes that designers and companies make; we should be more patient with game designers who make bad mechanics, or movies that are just too weird, or websites that are confusing at first; but we should also be more critical of those same companies and make it clear that we don't want the same old junk with nothing new.
In general that feeling of "soul" comes from flaws and honesty, those are not traits that tend to be rewarded in the corporate world or even in mass culture as a whole; but they are at the very heart of web revival sites.
EDIT: I suspect thats one of the reasons why old graphics seem to work for us; the early web was risky, it was new and full of ideas that were not quite polished yet; its those flaws we often pull into our sites today!
Wow thats a really professional line up of manga on your art page! I like your site name, I planned to do a rain centric site AGES ago, but I never gou around to it.. What is up with those huge swords??
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Hi, Im sure lots of others can chime in but a few starters;
I have a site making guide here that also tries to explain some of the overall ideas of web revival sites: https://melonking.net/melon?z=/thoughts/lets-make If you just wanna explore sites, the best way is to follow links on peoples links pages, you can also have a look at the neocities site list: https://neocities.org/browse For retro sites something like The Old Web can be useful too, it has a bunch of links to difrent services https://theoldnet.com/#frombadge And status.cafe is a great mini socal network that has a bunch of people who make old style sites as well https://status.cafe
Oh servers huh? I totally tried that too when I was in my early teens, but the server fans were SO LOUD, my dad even made me a special padded computer case out of wood and foam, but it was still too loud I hope you had better luck!
Where would the world be without Lego!?
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)! Im sure you will have your own web world in no time!
(No please be truthful!)
Partly we need kinder economics that allow more room for companies to fail and make mistakes without endangering their existence and the jobs of their employees. Additionally as individuals we need to be more forgiving for the mistakes that designers and companies make; we should be more patient with game designers who make bad mechanics, or movies that are just too weird, or websites that are confusing at first; but we should also be more critical of those same companies and make it clear that we don't want the same old junk with nothing new.
