acori

I liked it here.

There was a lot I never got to explore here. It was cool watching everyone else though. Maybe someday I'll open up like that too.


website (RSS and cohost shrine will be added after read-only)
acorisage.neocities.org/

batbeeps
@batbeeps

It's no secret that I do frontend web development for a living.

It's been my job for about a decade now, working for small agencies and (as of right now at least) big governments, with a particular focus on accessibility. As a hobby, I've been making websites for over two decades! It feels very weird to say that.

But in all that time, and with all the blogging I've done, I've basically never written anything trying to help others to learn or become more confident in doing frontend web development themselves.

I'd really quite like to, especially as many folks are turning sour towards algorithmically-determined social media, we seem to be entering a bit of a renaissance era of the personal website. I want to help folks build good web, but mostly, I just don't know where to start.

Are there any particular topics y'all'd find useful for me to talk about? They could be as technical or as broad strokes as you want, hyper specific "how do I do this?" to generalised introductory stuff. I just need to know what'd be useful!


batbeeps
@batbeeps

My first attempt to answer a write-in question, and it was kind of a doozy. I have no idea if this is actually helpful knowledge or not. πŸ˜…

Thanks to @BappyDeerHooves for the prompt!


StrawberryDaquiri
@StrawberryDaquiri
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in reply to @batbeeps's post:

Probably under hyper/specific. As a professional computer person who mostly doesn't work with web, I find myself baffled by the frameworks and build architectures I see in web design. (We are currently testing a js/ts data visualization frontend that has more "build" steps than our c++ projects.) Is there a good entry point to all of this for people who know too much about computers but little about web tech?

i would love some idea for how to make a website easier to update over time. having to make and design a whole new page for every project i want to display is exhausting, having to manually update with every new piece is exhausting, maybe there's an easier way? especially for people whose main hobbies lie elsewhere and are only making a website out of necessity. for reference, i have a neocities website i set up and then haven't updated in years because it's kind of overwhelming.

This one, I think is more generational than anything.

Say you're coming across someone (like me), who knew how to make a website with HTML 4.0 when 4.0 was still new, Angelfire, and nothing else. Later brushed on some basic concepts like FTP, servers and hosting, and the existence of CSS and javascript (albeit having not learned or practiced either). Talking table-sorcery, bright garish colors, midi music and visitor counters. The origin of what a lot of neocities culture tries to revisit.

How differently do you do it in 2024?

in reply to @batbeeps's post:

an explainer on RSS and if we can just do that in HTML or whatever would be nice. id also like to see an explanation of how to github because that feels important but despite my base level knowledge ive never quite figured it out?

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