neocities thumbnail look sorta weird

[EdenInTheGardens]

Hello everyone !
I have a question about neocities thumbnails because I noticed everyone's websites look the way they're supposed to in their thumbnails but mine, err, ill show you.



so this the thumbnail !



and here's what it looks like in my browser.

So yeah it's not TOO bad, but i'm confused !!

[Melooon]

As far as I know the neocities screenshot system is essentially the same as the surf-club, its basically a chrome browser that loads your site and takes a screenshot of whatever it loads.

So your thumbnail will depend on the browser resolution used by the nc screenshoter, and also the compression of the image itself. In my browser (on an older laptop with a smaller low-res screen) your site looks more like the neocities thumbnail than your screenshot.

[futurearcana]

Welcome to web development, where any OS/browser combo gives a slightly different result

I think the difference might be in font rendering and window size. If you care about where the text is relative to the portrait I'd play around with giving some fixed size to the text container on the left, or even make the portrait separate from the background and putting them side by side with the text. Then try to test with both a firefox based browser and chromium based one, to see if the effect translates correctly to both.

[EdenInTheGardens]

Welcome to web development, where any OS/browser combo gives a slightly different result

Sigh yeah I figured !! I tried to make it better using grids because I have a slightly codependent relationship with grids, and it's sort of better but not QUITE where I want it to be !

So your thumbnail will depend on the browser resolution used by the nc screenshoter, and also the compression of the image itself. In my browser (on an older laptop with a smaller low-res screen) your site looks more like the neocities thumbnail than your screenshot.

Well I hope it's not too bothersome ? For my laptop resolution I have to put my search window at 80% until something seems wrong, it's slightly cleaner because I used grids to place my elements around instead, but it's not quite right, I'll have to mess with it a bit more haha