15 things: work on my personal website

The progression of my work on my website over the last week or so, as documented on mastodon:

one

heeheehee I get to learn JAVASCRIPT now via the method of just diving right in there! (aka. downloading the zonelets starter pack to use for formatting my website, and digging into the script to see what I want to change!)

awww opening the zonelets css stylesheet and it feels so comfortably familiar! I love how much work I put into understanding css, via creating an ao3 personal theme!

also, seeing how these files all work together, the javascript and css and html, I understand the relationship between what you do with each of them far more. It makes sense to me now! the structure of building a site!


two

I'm learning things about filezilla...I'm learning things about website structures....I'm learning how bad ao3's html download files are.


three

I have one entire fic posted to my website! YESSSS!

I'm doing my best to divorce from ao3 my sense of what structure and language I should be using in the various preamble that goes with a given fic. I don't need to use the same categories of data, and I don't need to call things the same thing! and I don't even need to have the same sections on every fic if I don't want to, if something isn't relevant for that fic!!

https://aviansoph.com/fic/habitat-behaviour.html


four

I made one entire change to the javascript for my site, and it WORKED, I am so powerful 💪


five

I'm just so emotional about the people of the smallweb who code their little projects and then give them away freely - with instructions! - so that others of us can build our own little projects! My website, the main site and the linkding instance, couldn't be what it is without the help of many people, friends and strangers! 🥹


six

I keep going to my website and shrieking a bit internally. it looks like a website!!!


seven

for most programs, there's not enough customization, I can't make it behave in ways that are useful to me, and it's endlessly irritating

visual studio code: I got u bro

I'm actually intimidated by the notion of scrolling through all the customization options of vsc, damn!


eight

look how many fics I have posted on my website now!

this listing page still has some tweaking to do for maximum clarity of reading/skimming over the info, but this is still great progress!

I am a firm believer of the web design principle of "if people have to focus to figure out how to find the info they're looking for, the problem is with the design rather than the user" and I'm not out of the woods yet

https://aviansoph.com/catalogue/fanworks-by-fandom.html


nine

OKAY I think I've got my fandom list page looking a lot more clear now, via tweaking my use of whitespace! hooray!


ten

oh my god. I just realized. the "zap colours" and "zap stylesheets" bookmarklets I use semiregularly are.....snippets of code. that I now know approximately how to read! and could edit to get slightly different results, if I wanted to!!

the world opens up to you, when you learn things about coding!


eleven

things I want to add to my website:

- theme-picker, so people who do better with dark mode etc can still comfortably browse my site

- comments on fanwork pages and blog pages

- table of contents on fic pages so you can easily jump down to the section you want to

- all the rest of my fanworks - 12 fics are up but that's not nearly everything!

- BIRD SHRINE.

and all of this is very doable! so exciting.


twelve

omg I submitted a feature request to linkding and LATER THE SAME DAY a fix is committed: https://github.com/sissbruecker/linkding/pull/819

between this and the default guest profile stuff I am soooo excited for the next linkding release


thirteen

I've started to write up a podcast recs page for my website because I figured that would be cool content to have. but I forgot. how wordy I can be. and HOW many podcasts I listen to.

my original plan was just a list of podcasts. my second plan was to include a sentence or two about each one, as context.

my current document has multiple paragraphs per podcast. most podcast descriptions are between 150-200 words each. and I have so many podcasts to go!


fourteen

my list of fanworks by vibe is now posted to my site! https://aviansoph.com/catalogue/fanworks-by-vibe.html

also posted: just my faves of my fanfics! https://aviansoph.com/catalogue/fave-fanworks.html

and a history of the fandoms I've been in! https://aviansoph.com/catalogue/fandoms-through-the-years.html


fifteen

...and the next linkding release is OUT NOW. today! hot damn. ok. ok. I am not prepared, it's usually not this quick between releases!

I hope I have time soon to dig into this and get my instance updated!!