Although I do like the current state of my website, I think it needs a coat of fresh paint. It's my web coding playground, so I always planned to have it evolve with my coding and design skills, and have it be as experimental as possible. Currently, I'm brewing up a large and major redesign of EVERYTHING, which is why I figured that now would be a good time to start a thread on it, where I can record my progress, and what it used to look like.
This is the homepage as of writing this:
This layout was inspired by the everyone site's homepage since that was fairly simple for me to replicate, and also repurposed old code from an html project I did in school many years ago. It has a couple of quirks and problems I was planning to iron out eventually, but now I've instead decided to scrap it entirely. In the back of my head I always considered making a more point-and-click inspired layout, something like a site map, but as a literal overworld map to explore. Kind of like certain edutainment games I played when I was a child. But that idea intimidated me, especially since it would require a lot of carefully planned art assets.
Then I remembered that
ribo.zone already does something similar to this, but way simpler and in the form of a "room" to explore. So I decided I'd try taking my own spin at it!
A week ago I asked for help here on how to code this, since it would require absolute-positioned elements that could also be viewport-responsive. I was still testing the waters on if this was even something I could do at my current skill level. I got some really helpful answers, and after a few days of experimenting, I felt like I could in fact do this! (See that topic
here)
This was my initial sketch for that:
And this is the current live version of my
room page:
Not all artworks are fully rendered yet, the styling isn't done either, and don't even get me started on how it all looks on mobile, but it's functional! And it only took me a week to get this far! I'm quite proud of myself.
A lot of art and coding projects intimidate me. They make me feel as though the end goal is so far out of sight that it would take way too much work to get there, so I lose all will to even try. This, however? If I slowly chip away at the styling, the art and the mobile layout, I feel as if eventually I WILL get it done, and it WILL look the way I envision it. And when I reach that point, this page will get to replace the current homepage completely.
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