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mouseling

1 year ago

Today I caught sight of a cell tower I want to photograph next time I go shopping and I bought a suitable amount of fabric. The use of it is a secret for now. (I also finally cosplayed Nobita, so I've got to hurry and make a page for it!)

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veilofmizery

1 year ago

Added some crazy cool peeps to my link page :P

veilofmizery 1 year ago

If you’d like for your button to be on there pls lemme know!

paintedtime updated their site.

1 year ago

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mouseling updated their site.

1 year ago

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mouseling 1 year ago

added a cover i gave up on for now u_u

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shinobutou updated their site.

1 year ago

blanktriptych

1 year ago

Free? must make yet another to do list for the summer. before and after my departure to wonderland...my homeland...wasteland

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paintedtime updated their site.

1 year ago

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mouseling updated their site.

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mouseling 1 year ago

Three new outfits.

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soapbubbleseal 1 year ago

damn that claw necklace is SO cool

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mouseling 1 year ago

@soapbubbleseal There's a reason they're still popular with the Harajuku crowd! It's actually a bracelet first but everyone wears it as a necklace. (I wouldn't be surprised if Decora kids buying them is a good chunk of what pays Takuya's bills these days LOL... they're relatively cheap too I have to stop myself from splurging on some customs because I already have two)

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mouseling

1 year ago

been ignoring my website to play mahjong and feed birds *facepalm*

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sweet-pea 1 year ago

ugh so real i've been playing roblox nonstop

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mouseling

1 year ago

I've been thinking up some thoughts on websites, particularly common bad web design practice I see around and/or Neocities culture I'm peeved by, and what I believe people should do instead. I'm wondering how I should make it into a page without coming off as mean-spirited, because it *is* genuine.

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mouseling 1 year ago

In particular: "Website is best on X" means it is bad on everything except for X. Forcing autoplay consent via a splash is bad. (Most splash pages are useless.) Absolute positioning relative to multiple points on the screen is bad; not everyone has the same resolution or scale. *Only* linking to websites if they have buttons and making pretty homepages with zero content are both common unideal habits.

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mouseling 1 year ago

It doesn't have to be perfect (just look at my site on a phone!) but forcing HTML to be completely unusable on mobile is bad. It's naturally responsive. Using % units for sizing content is almost always bad. That one layout builder that *requires JavaScript to even load the layout* is unimaginably awful. I've definitely got more but I've got to save it for the actual page!

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barndoors 1 year ago

please send me your writing(s) if you don't post! would love to read about it

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mouseling 1 year ago

@barndoors I'll definitely get it up on my site someday! It's just a matter of framing, I think. I don't want to look like I'm telling you what to do, for example, so I need to lay out my thoughts and then work on phrasing them nicely... LOL.

tekerare 1 year ago

Don't forget about the images that block any site content because people weren't taught {pointer-events:none;}

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mouseling 1 year ago

@0ekekddddd yes! Also, Catbox and Filegarden. Full stop.

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tekerare 1 year ago

Or or or when artists don't make alternate thumbnails on their sites for pieces, so you can see the entire 3000px image along with 10 to 20 of them load at the same time. Happens with flavor images too

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ancientcrypt 1 year ago

filegarden and catbox are stupid for filehosting on neocities but i see it so much. oh my god. and also the epidemic of websites with nothing to say

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mouseling 1 year ago

(I guess that if anyone reading this has other pet peeves they'd like me to touch on, they're free to drop it here.)

tojisworld 1 year ago

I had an idea 20 years ago for reviewing anime fansites based on a site that reviewed Dragonball fansites. Unfortunately the idea came about a little too late was the age of the anime fansite was dying out by then.

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hazure03 1 year ago

I'd be interested to read this! I'm in a rut sit-wise and I think a good refresh would be nice and I'd like to know some better changes I could make :)

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nobodylovesme 1 year ago

Pleeeease post it, I have many small web pet peeves and I need to know I'm not alone in this world lol

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sakana 1 year ago

Guilty of "button wall" (so I don't end up linking back anyone who doesn't have a button to add) and I'm also not exactly sure what my site looks like on mobile. I almost exclusively use my desktop PC for everything.

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allyratworld 1 year ago

i... actually didn't know using % for sizing was bad :'D

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mouseling 1 year ago

@allyratworld I wrote "almost always bad" but I'm a chronic exaggerator. It doesn't help that I miswrote the word "content" instead of "layout". It's not bad in the proper contexts, for example I used it to limit image sizes and make text smaller, but over-relying on % units for your *layout* (relative to the screen) can certainly be a bad choice depending on the page!

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mouseling 1 year ago

@allyratworld I used to have a website where all the main content was 90% width. Using this example, on a super-wide screen like a serious gamer might have, your content is going to be very wide and look sparse. On a phone, things will be annoying to navigate. A better unit to use would, for example, be em (naturally responsive!) or px (not best but good especially if graphic-reliant... & my eternal habit either way)

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capyhaus 1 year ago

I think it'd be worth posting. If someone finds it insulting they skip past it, those pages frankly helped me when I was starting out.

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heart143 1 year ago

I think my site looks fine on small screens according to firefox's responsive design mode, but then I check it on my phone and it's the ugliest thing I've ever seen >_> I think providing solutions or better alternatives will make this page really helpful and less mean. also websites with nothing to say are ok. why police the contents of a site?

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mouseling 1 year ago

@heart143 Of course websites with nothing to say are fine; they aren't hurting anyone. I'm not policing that. Websites with nothing to say also don't get visitors after a certain point, and visitors are what many people want. Of course, everybody's metric of what makes a good website will be different, but I prioritise interesting content which obviously informs my own opinions.

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wraithcastle 1 year ago

re: alternate thumbnails: i think you can also just make it smaller and then use loading ="lazy" in your tag

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goooby 1 year ago

@ancientcrypt you're right and I am so guilty of it. I archive/organize all the webgraphics I find on there so when I need them I can just quickly test by hotlinking then host later but I get lazy about it and forget LOL it's my worst habit

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paintedtime updated their site.

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