What are you working on at the moment?

[wetnoodle]

just made a animated qr code for my site! I made it with this! gonna keep messing with animated QRs and see if i can manually clean this one up a bit.

[JINSBEK]

@wetnoodle Wow! That's awesome..>! That's a really handy tool, too, thank you for sharing that.

I made a new status.cafe and I'm really pleased with the aesthetics and the layout, but I gotta fix it for Mobile. After that, I want to take what I've learned and actually build a blog on this Frutiger Metro aesthetic and layout... I've really been sitting on my ass with regards to actual blogging on my website(s), just because the current style I have just. Isn't my thing.

[serenefork]

I am working on remaking my site homepage, and moving to my new home.
My site feels too restricting to me now, so I’m starting with freeing up the homepage and then working through the rest of it as I get the time and ideas and motivation.  I’m thinking of making my homepage’s water/ aquarium theme much more prevalent, so I’m excited for that!
I’m finally going to get a proper desk (and not just a TV dinner tray in my living room…) so I’m really excited to get that set up and decorate the new computer and craft spaces! It’s been tiring work, but I’m excited for the results!

[MatherBoing]

A forum just like this one! The thing is that I know nothing about PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, lua, python, or any coding language other than how the basics and how to print text. Also, I asked AI to help because my mother takes classes in IT, but it hasn't done any good. I'm desperate to make a functioning forum. I already have a domain name, and webhost, and it's even online! If you wanna check it out or something, go to https://especiallyrandom.neocities.org/
But yeah. Forums are hard.

[kzuich]

A forum just like this one! The thing is that I know nothing about PHP, HTML, CSS, Javascript, lua, python, or any coding language other than how the basics and how to print text. Also, I asked AI to help because my mother takes classes in IT, but it hasn't done any good. I'm desperate to make a functioning forum. I already have a domain name, and webhost, and it's even online! If you wanna check it out or something, go to https://especiallyrandom.neocities.org/
But yeah. Forums are hard.

Oh yeah for sure. There are a few free solutions out there- I know there's a topic around here somewhere on forum hosting options since coding a forum from scratch is a TON of work. I used to use proboards back in the day before I really had a good grasp on HTML and was able to host my own. :) Maybe try something like that and mess around with it some and see if it clicks with you! ^^

[BlazingCobaltX]

My year in review for the 32-Bit Café's event. I'm actually doing two this year, one specifically focusing on how my relationship with technology and the internet has changed since entering web revival spaces.

[MatherBoing]

Oh yeah for sure. There are a few free solutions out there- I know there's a topic around here somewhere on forum hosting options since coding a forum from scratch is a TON of work. I used to use proboards back in the day before I really had a good grasp on HTML and was able to host my own. :) Maybe try something like that and mess around with it some and see if it clicks with you! ^^

YOU sir... are going on my special executive list.
Thank you for recommending proboards

[Rosaria Delacroix]

In theory I should be working on my novel, though I’m a bit torn between waiting to start it in the brand new notebook I should have gotten for Christmas or not- it’s held up in the postal system and no one knows when those’ll be out, likely sometime in January, or even February. I’ve cleaned out and dedicated a notebook to the draft for now, and slapped on a sticker to adorn the cover, filled up my fountain pens- but I loathe migrating midway through, and also find it super difficult to resist the temptation of a brand new luxury notebook.

I could always copy over pages, or even tear them out and slide them into the back pocket whenever the new one arrives, I suppose. I hope that that package arrives soon- it’s got an oodle of inks in colours I’ve trial ran with gel pens and know I’ll enjoy using enough to justify purchasing a bottle, as well as a repeat of some pink ink I adored. Plus a little pen holder insert, the new journal, and a small swiss army knife because I keep stumbling across the need for a multi tool in my day to day life.

There’s not really any hard set rules. And since it’s so up in the air, I might even finish out the current notebook I have set aside for it before it arrives! (Very optimistic, or pessimistic, depending on if you’re considering the speed of the postal system or my writing habits.)

[Vidknight]

Right now I'm working on finishing my the last 2 characters in my OCs page I already got two completed, but I just need to finish the last two (And that's if I don't create anymore OCs right now and I do have some ideas for new ones)

[alexela64]

a fansite for Plastic Tree! it's gonna be called Ink-Kurage.

The earliest version of this is done now! https://ink-kurage.neocities.org

The project has evolved a lot since May - I've done a lot of scan-archiving, site-designing and such. During my research i realized i don't think there's a single PT fanlisting up and running (at least not in English) so obviously that had to go on the site as well.

It's been my passion project for over a year now and i think it'll continue to be for at least a year more, since there's so much information and archive material that i want to add. It's not just for the fans either -- i just love them so much it's an outlet for that love that doesn't involve pestering my friends about the band constantly   


I'm hosting it on neocities for now because i just wanted to have *something* up and running by the end of 2024 -- but once i put in a little more work i might bother with getting its own domain/a different hosting solution.

[Rosaria Delacroix]

I've been having a blast making stuff on my website- it's a fantastic distraction and hobby to return to intermittently in my pockets of spare time.

My new sitemap shows off all of what I've added, but I'm especially excited about the blog I started to chronicle our play-by-post tabletop roleplay game campaign, and I've been working on the living lore reference document for my players.

I also really love my dream journal, and I rarely write in first person: so its nice to dabble in it now and then, and also have a place to more casually type away. A lot of the writing I've been doing is a bit more polished and stiff, especially the writing I'm sharing with the campaign members, so this is a cozy little dark place to peer blearily into while recording my dreams. Relatedly, I've been upkeeping my mood tracker which has been nice to see accumulate.

[apricior]

Woah, everyone on this thread is so talented!!! It's so inspiring to see how creative everyone gets with their website 

Personally, I'm still working on learning the barebones of HTML and CSS! And while I learn new things, I try to update my website with the elements and details that I want to add to the design. It's still a very rough draft, but it's not bad for someone who's been actively learning how to code for the past [checks calendar] four days (I'm not counting learning how to use BBCode for forums because that was like a decade ago xD)

[CATBYTE]

last night i started work on my first web shrine! it's about my favorite animal. since i tend to do most of my edits directly on neocities, you can see my progress on it here.
i'm also working on some new zines, as well as some owed and personal art projects. on top of this, i'm working on getting my stream setup together as i have some work streams i'd like to do later this month.

i have a convention i'm going to next weekend so i'm trying to get all my projects into a good place beforehand, as after conventions i tend to be very inspired to create new things, (and neglect the old ones... ^^;)!

[Kallistero]

I just finished writing a complete guide, for my own reference, of how I put websites on AWS from zero using one of my preferred tech stacks. There are guides online, but I still had to do a lot of troubleshooting to get everything working. I decided I'd write it all down in one place & not have to go hunting & experimenting for answers. And I'll tell ya, documenting it all was way more grueling than actually doing it    Hopefully, that just means I frontloaded that stress and will have a much easier time dealing with Web infrastructure stuff in general. It really builds an appreciation for everything handled in the background by our lovely simple-to-use web hosts! 

Next, I'll be going through this online textbook on JavaScript, since I'm pretty much entirely self-taught right now and want to fill in any knowledge gaps I might have. I'll be putting up a Web page to use as a simple progress tracker before I begin, and I can use that page as a first template for other personal skills I want to keep track of. People use mobile apps or a writing pad to do that a lot of the time, but the apps I've seen are more just data visualizations & don't even support adding clickable links (not to mention the ad farming) while a writing pad or whiteboard is freeform & private but doesn't make it very simple to point the way to reference resources or demonstrations or pictures or other whiteboards. Feeeels like a gap in the market to me 

Every page I've made lately has been solving some sort of little problem I have that no one seems to have the right solution for, and it gives me big ideas to try out some proper market research for later.

[Rosaria Delacroix]

Progress on the novel is finally coming along nicely- writing by the big windows overlooking our snowy yard in the morning sunlight has been doing wonders on clipping through the pages. Have been considering figuring out a way to implement how many pages out of my notebook I've used up- I'm beginning to have the feeling this may be a multi-notebook affair, which is exciting. Feels good to actually be so drawn to a project that I miss it when I'm not scribbling away. Also threw up a handful of blog posts about the whole process.

As for my website, I've been tinkering around with adding things. I just slapped up a library, since I've been meaning to get into the habit of reading more, now that I've the luxury of time to do so- and plenty of books in my 'to read' catalog that've been loitering on my shelf. It's kind of fun to imagine what all of the covers will look like together after the year is done- and who knows how long I'll keep the site actively updated as a hobby for? Might be cool to see years compiled... Though it's good passive motivation to read more- I really don't do enough of it.

I recently updated my muse ariadne club area as well. I've always liked the idea of casual, low commitment writing clubs from a distance like this- they used to be more popular on Tumblr, and while I'm not really in a space where prompt writing is something I feel the need to do for practice, or just to keep writing- (heaven knows I don't devote enough time to my novel as is), it is fun to unwind a little with some more casual, personal writing. (And yeah, I do backup a select curation of my forum posts on my personal site like this- more in the trivia section, haha.)

Also wound up hosting a zine about my tabletop roleplay game campaign character, Roman Bennett, on my personal site as well as on my itch.io. I have to do a little formatting of the pages on itch.io, which I've always found a tiring exercise- and with all of the outages the site's been having lately, it's made me a bit leery. It was a bit of trouble trying to figure out how to host the reader script and the zine on my own site, but I managed it by futzing around with folders, and I'm quite pleased- it's nice to have a copy more directly under my personal control.