Changelog Log

Changelog #05

2nd of October, 2023.
Dear Diary...

Well, it's been a while since I wrote a changelog!

I keep struggling juggling these two versions of my website (one locally on my harddrive, and one up here), as the online version feels easier to update (I just fire up the online editor, fix a typo or add a thought to something) and then forget what specific thing I updated, making me have to comb through my entire site to make sure I don't accidentally replace something when I upload my local version.

So in short, I brought parity between both versions again (with no plans on how to fix this issue) and have both rewritten/restructured the internals of the website (noteable stuff here being the rewrite of base.css which now uses an experimental coding style) and added a bit of content to it (like an upgraded Music Library, a website asset section and small additions to pages like Me Projects).

Here's a list of most stuff I changed:

• Reworked the design of the Music Library and added an Introduction page for it. Albums with descriptions I like now feature an album cover, and I've added, rewritten and re-rated a bunch of descriptions and songs.
• Expanded the Me Art section a bit by adding both a website assets and an unfinished Pixel Art section that even leads to a Midnight Horrors Maps subsection.
• Also added the Video Log, a small list of videos I find worth watching. I would probably like to add tagging to that if I ever fully utilize it, but for now it's like 10 links.
• Whipped up Torture in Misc in the span of 20 minutes just for fun.
• A small amount of new cards in the Me Projects and just generally lots of little rewrites of sentences and paragraphs across the website.
• Worked on the styling and made certain things look nicer!
• h3 & h4 now have a underline that I really like! h2 also has a centered hr variant now that's used in places like the "Link" section.
• Added new "superheaders" (in contrast to subheaders) to h1 in some certain sections like for subpages in the Shareables Gallery
• Generalized the styling of the lists found in the About Me page and generally applied that to lists all around (like the ones on the Cool Lingo page)
• Remade styling for links & sidenotes, with a focus on text-decoration, as well as adding a new styling for things that are both links & sidenotes.
• Added/invented the notion of emotion in textual form, also called emotes or emojis . They're a bit tiny to fit the font size, although that's kind of remedied by them enlargening when you hover over them. (Everyday, we this website strays further from god accessability)
• Reworked the Stress Test page to be better at it's job and at showcasing the various css I have implemented. It's a good way to see the style changes mentioned above.
• Removed the Clicky Buttons subsection as it felt redundant and was prone to me being too lazy to update it whenever I updated the Links section itself. (Maybe I could code a JavaScript button to toggle sidenotes & links, though...)
• Other shuffling around behind the scenes, organizing my css files and making it easier to add themes in the near future
• I have some vague ideas about more stuff I could do like a theme switcher and what to do to winter-fy this website come december (and maybe horror-fy come october).

This update feels like it keeps getting bigger the longer I work on it and it's satisfying. It's also quite useful to have an outdated online version and an updated local version to compare and comb through all the changes an update has.

Anyway, uh...

G'Bye, Diary

Changelog #04

20. June, 2023 - 17:48
SquaredPancake's start page
NeoCities_

A bigger update adding in the "Me projects" section out of nowhere — a section which has a lot more writing than most other pages, all about the many ideas I have for projects. Mostly made in one sitting from midnight to 4 AM.

I also revamped the Guestbook! It looks a bit more stylish (though not as good as I want it to look) and uses a different service called Formspree (instead of HTML Comment Box) now, which has a variety of pro's and cons:

• It feels cleaner to implement. It's now just a form and static html page instead of a page mostly fetched through JavaScript.
• It made it easier to customize the look of the entries
• I could create my own form with my own fields
• Every entry has to go through me and thus it automatically filters any bad messages.
• It kind of makes it less casual by removing the "Reply" button which allowed a back and forth to happen. It's still possible with assymetric communication (someone sending a response via mail, me responding through my website), but it's more awkward.

For a bit more of a personal landmark, this update came a few days after going to a flea market and getting a cute squirrel handpuppet.

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And also christ; making this took around 10 hours! And I worked on this consecutively (midnight - ~4AM, then waking up and continuing onwards)! That's impressive on one hand and has tired me out on another!

Changelog #03

A bit significant - Added two new subsections to the shareables gallery with templates and Neocities buttons to replace the old "General Buttons" page in misc (and save it from it's miserable existence). Also added a few more shareables and made a few more templates along that.

Oh, and fixed a few broken links on the old website.

Changelog #02

I feel kind of inclined to just write the things that were added to an update under these if there was something significant enough. For this update it's mostly having added the date of last modification to every page as well as redesigning the nav-bar. Later on I also made my first stamp, opened up my Art section with it and expanded the Shareables gallery a bit. Good progress, I would say.

Changelog #01

Ah, mate; I'm a bit too lazy to write somethin' proper here.

Just know that I updated the site and added a "Last updated" date to every page (visible above the nav-bar and to the right of the header) as well as reworking a bit o' the visuals.

I also made this terminal styling for a changelog I wanted to write for this update, but then was too lazy to finish writing it, so it's used for this instead (Credits to cyuucat.moe for the scanlines animation I stole).

(This terminal fits the redesign for the nav- & current-bar quite well.)

Oh, and don't forget to press CTRL + F5 to reload the cache in case anything looks wonky.