adventures in building a website - part 1
i am building a website in neocities! you can check it out here. originally, i was going to use this blog as my internet homepage, but i wanted something much more customizable that i could really make my own, so i gave up decided to just start learning html.
i used sadgrl's template and am modifying it to fit my own needs. it's a good and easy to modify jumping-off point for making a personalized website. mostly i've just changed the colors and images and added my own pages, but i also used this tutorial to be able to embed my navbar, footer, and sidebar in the pages so i only have to modify one files and not every page when i want to update one of those things.
inspired by key's klubhouse (although i'm sure many other websites have done this), i might try to modify my website to have the header, sidebar, and footer be static and have the content part of the website update instead. i feel this would be even easier to update, would require less code, and makes the css much easier/100% consistent but opening pages in new tabs doesn't render them properly. i think the pros outweigh the cons, though. this wouldn't work so well with my site's current layout so we'll see what i end up doing. the system i'm using is fine for now.