Neocities

9 months ago

Website redesign is now underway. Expect to see it in a few months because I'm slow. The outward result will be simpler, but the code will be more solid, modern, and responsive.

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pixelglade 9 months ago

Ooh, exciting. Any hints for how the changes will look?

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skep 9 months ago

As per our prior discussions, I am eager to see your take on "frutiger gothic".

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emilynhoward 9 months ago

@pixelglade I won't talk about specifics of the layout or colors because all of that might change, but I am looking for something simpler visually than the current layout, where the content feels a little more unbounded and bubbled than the current layout.

emilynhoward 9 months ago

@skep I have already desaturated the Windows 2000 desktop and photoshopped some headstones in.

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10 months ago

Does anybody use custom HTML tags like in this article? https://matthewjamestaylor.com/custom-tags I am wondering about other people's experience with it.

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skep 10 months ago

I don't, but it makes sense to me, I vaguely recall that HTML and XML use a similar methodology and XML is basically nothing but made-up tags.

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skep 10 months ago

Biggest caveats I can think of would be to not replace semantic tags (which the article mentioned), and your code could be less intuitive for others to interpret (likely not a huge concern)

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irony-machine 10 months ago

i don't use them, they feel wrong to me in a way i can't explain

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emilynhoward 10 months ago

@skep, Yeah the advice is not to replace the semantic tags, which I don't want to do. Problem is, even semantic tags like "section" and "article" can get really vague really fast when you're trying to figure out what is where. And since I insist on doing everything by hand I want my code to be more legible.

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emilynhoward 10 months ago

@irony-machine The only thing that feel really wrong to me is that you can use emoji (!!!) in them.

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myrtletribe 9 months ago

I tried this a while ago with a friend and we were stunned that it worked! but I haven't used them so far

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brachypelmide 9 months ago

really late to the party but i've used custom html tags myself and they work just fine. in fact, i've used them against the spec without any problems - before i redesigned my reviews page, each review was literally a element. no hyphen or anything, so they're not necessary, but you do run the risk of creating conflicts with existing semantic tags and potentially ones that could be added in the future.

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brachypelmide 9 months ago

ok it turns out neocities doesn't like parsing element-like text. i meant that "each review was literally a [review] element"

emilynhoward updated their site.

10 months ago

collections/fieldnotes2025

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emilynhoward 10 months ago

Added 5 more Field Notes.

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oldkidz-newblockz updated their site.

10 months ago

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oldkidz-newblockz

10 months ago

about wtf is my web even...

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anchorgutz updated their site.

10 months ago

blogs/2025

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oldkidz-newblockz updated their site.

10 months ago

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emilynhoward updated their site.

10 months ago

collections/nationaldishes

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emilynhoward 10 months ago

I know that everyone was waiting for me to issue a public statement, so here it is: the top 5 national dishes of the United States (and some honorable mentions.)

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pixelglade 10 months ago

Dang I had no idea nachos is american. It's one of my favorite foods (and very easy to make animal-free)

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skep 10 months ago

PB&J had not occurred to me and now I have to reconsider my list.

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emilynhoward 10 months ago

@pixelglade It turns out that I misremembered. Nachos were invented on the Mexican side of the border to cater to the tastes of American restaurant customers. So pretty close. But have you tried the real game-changer: nacho tots???

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