Lakes The Guy

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i decided to go with a windows 98 donation page with a green background. but i might switch it up later
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lakestheguy updated their site.
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i'm struggling to think of how i should style the donations page. because i watch it to be eyecatching but i dont want it to be over the top or silly. since it might come off the wrong way. idk i'm probably overthinking it but i dont wanna be disrespectful towards the people i will be linking you know
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seasoups's avatar seasoups 1 year ago

i feel like as long as its sincere people will understand! if sincere to you means no funny business, then that is how you should go.

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 1 year ago

@seasoups thanks

greenbox's avatar greenbox 1 year ago

Silly is fine if that's what your heart wants, personally I'd be more likely to donate to something that made me laugh than a very serious no goofing around donation page - maybe make it look like the Winrar free trial notification? It would match the Windows theme :)

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virtually-isolated's avatar virtually-isolated 1 year ago

You can start with a simplistic version of your normal layout with short descriptions for each Fund and then see how comfortable you are adding more elements or touching-up text.

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how would you all feel if i start promoting gofundmes on my website
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limovars's avatar limovars 1 year ago

that’s great, but may i suggest also linking to protest/direct action orgs

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limovars's avatar limovars 1 year ago

i’m considering doing something similar

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 1 year ago

@limovars thanks! i'll add that to the page when i get to it

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hhroses's avatar hhroses 1 year ago

good idea. its a cute idea for ur fans/supporters to help support u financially :P could label it

hhroses's avatar hhroses 1 year ago

could label it "feed the dev!" $ lol nomnomnom

limovars's avatar limovars 1 year ago

@lakes just to be clear i am referring specifically to mutual aid for palestine and other important causes, not promoting a gofundme for myself

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limovars's avatar limovars 1 year ago

@lakes but ofc if you or anyone wants to promote their own gofundmes, it’s not my site and people can do whatever they want!😊

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 1 year ago

@limovars @hhorses yeah just to be clear. limovars is correct. it wont be my own gofundme. but other people's

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found this family from gaza that needs help: https://tinyurl.com/wafafamily
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donovan-thought's avatar donovan-thought 1 year ago

got it set up after some struggling (apparently html links don't like ampersands so i had to set it as &) but thank you!

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donovan-thought's avatar donovan-thought 1 year ago

oh that's hilarious. apparently writing the html ascii key makes it just an & again - i'd meant & / amp;

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lakestheguy updated their site.
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limovars's avatar limovars 1 year ago

Much of mainstream tv shows head in the direction of never adopting actually radical positions, preferring only to portray suffering under capitalism void of any viable solutions. Mark Fisher goes into this in Capitalist Realism

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 1 year ago

@limovars RIGHT!! i've noticed this too. but i was thinking maybe squid game would at least be entertaining about it. but you're right though. even severance which is a better show doesn't show any possible radical solutions at least yet. the only exceptions i can think of are star trek & sorry to bother you. one of the reasons i respect boots riley as a director is how openly communist he is

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limovars's avatar limovars 1 year ago

I love STBY!!! Just recommended it to someone on here.

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btw the prev text post was about custom COLORS not the window borders themselves. i understand the way i worded it might be confusing for some people
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i just noticed my website isn't showing the custom window border colors on the windows 7 style pages anymore AAAAH!!!! idk if it's a linux thing, a librewolf thing, some combo of both?
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thehoneypot's avatar thehoneypot 1 year ago

Not sure if I am looking at the right thing, but /musicofwhenever is showing Win7 styled borders for me. MX Linux / Firefox.

lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 1 year ago

@thehoneypot i mean for me it's less about them being win7 styled (they are still are for me too). it's just that the custom colors i put are GONE!!

lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 1 year ago

@thehoneypot like compare the thumbnail for the homepage to the ACTUAL homepage and you'll see what i mean

thehoneypot's avatar thehoneypot 1 year ago

Oh my bad I do see what you mean. I can see on the article you set --window-background-color to the shade of red that's in the thumbnail, but I am struggling to find where that variable is then used. The inner title-bar uses --w7-w-glass. When I manually set that to --window-background-color, the colour appears, albeit not transparent but I think if you explore that hopefully you will find the fix!

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thehoneypot's avatar thehoneypot 1 year ago

Yeah got it - On the .window::before css, set background-color to --window-background-color and the custom colours (and correct transparency) appears!

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lakestheguy's avatar lakestheguy 1 year ago

@thehoneypot i can't edit that part of the css since i have the win7/98/xp stuff linked from a third party rather than directly hosted on my site. but i might see if i can download it on my computer later

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polemoniaceae's avatar polemoniaceae 1 year ago

i have a working copy of the 7.css stylesheet on my site if that helps: https://polemoniaceae.neocities.org/7.css

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lakestheguy updated their site.
1 year ago
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i just wanted to answer a question you had on your homepage. yes you can absolutely link to other neocities. in fact there's a practice where people have small images that link to someone else's website called site buttons. hope that helps
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bulltown's avatar bulltown 1 year ago

yay buttons!

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badgraph1csghost's avatar badgraph1csghost 1 year ago

in terms of etiquette, it's best to link to the user's landing page, which will happen automatically if you don't put anything in after the link. (like https://badgraph1csghost.neocities.org/ leads to my landing page) if people don't want you linking to their site at all, they'll tell you so on their site somewhere.

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demonialex's avatar demonialex 6 months ago

The way I am only NOW realizing people can comment haha I had not seen this I'm so sorry!! ^^; It does help!! I really need to get back into learning to code haha

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