sighs debating if i should put lil 'sections' around chunks like i have it on my site now, or leave it bare bones ... (though it makes it a little harder to differentiate sections)

sighs i’m still very torn. this layout makes it harder to have all my lil dinkies and pixels and lil fun sidebar of stuff … grr i’ll continue pondering. maybe i should try to 11ty my current layout as well for funsies. yada yada head full it’s 3am

nvm i’ve figured out how to get the lil mini sidebar… damn it’s that fuckin easy to just have a ‘if this variable is true then include this’ in a template????? it does shrink my main content down a bit for the index but eh, my current layout already does that…

problem is i tend to use the same layout, its more for one off tiny things like… my games layout on my about page or the table i use on my bookmarks :think:

IT USES THE STUPID FILE NAME AND NOT THE OUTPUT VARIABLE U GIVE IT???? im gonna explode. THATS ALL IT NEEDED WAS TO MAKE SURE ITS THE FILE NAME OF THE JS FILE??????

AUGH NVM this is useless since it only refreshes when i build it. i guess i'll just need to rawdog it back to HTML/JS for THAT at least

wait does it not auto update when you save the file? are you serving it or just building it?

no auto updating, i’m just rawdogging it rn in a folder to just muck with it and building it

come in the cult... (yeah honestly idk how to handle one-off styles either i just plop them into the page so the end result has a style tag in the middle of main lol

Hmm, for one-off style tags... my first thought is moving each to its own CSS file, then specifying in the front matter of the page if it should pull in a different CSS. Could be better ways, but yeah, kinda tricky.

hmm ... i'll have to fuck around ... idm plopping in the style tags but it is a minor annoyance if so, i usually try to avoid too many CSS files if i can :skull:

11ty is great it lets you do so much

hmm maybe u could still use it and add on some decorative goodies as you see fit

mayhaps ... this is more to scratch an itch rn of wanting to rehaul LMAOO and me avoiding that by just making a layout for funsies

sighs if i do decide to try a rehaul maybe it’ll give me an excuse to begin with 11ty from the beginning

I'm constantly fighting the urge to make my site into simple html documents with little to no css so I get it lol

what an actual mood too LMAOOO cursed to want uniqueness/fun things but then the simplicity of not finangling with css and js…

what if you give the devil a new canvas and let it run wild? (perhaps create a separate new site) :>

no energy to maintain two, but i may end up making a new project thru my code editor and just muck around w/prototyping a layout in that for funsies 🤔

maybe i'll try to remake my fave tumblr theme im currently using but as an actual site layout and not a tumblr layout (kinda in the same vein my layout is rn for my own blog, but just a bit different)

same, same...

felt. I like my site but there are some things I really want to redo

This literally happens to me the millisecond I'm finished with my site 😭🤛

I'm gonna keep my layout like that honestly. Only fixed a few things that needed to be update

this is why i made my layouts site, so i could make new layouts w/o having to mess w stuff on my site but letting others use it so they don't gather dust :p

I think it's fine. Shouting out our friends' good work is something I support at least :p

bahaha to explain im usually just very self critical abt promoting myself on personal things, it always feels very weird to me ... but since it's my friend and i want her to succeed as an author, it's why im like ... thonk. i know its my own site after all, im just musing out loud

@silliestgoose-online thank u... mostly just thinking out loud more than anything!!!

i made a lil section promoing my friends on my neighbors page. how i think of it is that a big part of the indie web is removing the need for an algorithm, and this is a great way to direct people to other content they may like in an intentional, human way!

Why would it be weird to promote something you like on your own website (´･ω･)