added a guestbook (and in the process figured out how to edit the links sidebar without destroying the formatting lmfao)
somehow i always manage to write these before i've actually finished updating things to my liking for the day ^^;;
so not only did i go back and add subfolders as stated, i also added a subfolder for site buttons and went a little ham decorating with them on the home page!! i also figured out how to get youtube embeds working so naturally i had to embed my favorite suha karaoke stream lmfao
and then i got to thinking "hm.... i sure wish i had music for my site" but i ran. into a bit of a dilemma. you see i initially wanted to do just a button with an embedded playlist, but i didn't really wanna just steal an artist's work to promote my own in that way. so then i was like. okay, youtube embed. which i tried at first using a button because i didn't really need the video player, but i couldn't get it working at all... so then i decided to try a playlist embed, but youtube's embed code uses an iframe and when i tried to add it to the index page it was putting the links and resources page there instead?? i still have no clue why lmfao but! i found a code to let me embed it without an iframe and now i have a working playlist in the corner that doesn't stop when you navigate from page to page and will update if i decide to add more music in the future. i'm genuinely so proud that i managed to figure this out you have no idea how embarrassingly long that took.
i also updated some of the overall language on a few of the pages, and finally i changed the table on the first page to reflect my personal links because i couldn't think of anything else i would want to put there lol. wow. i've been doing this for like 8 hours now. time to collapse now!
long time no update! took a break from the site for about a month because of personal reasons (been dealing with a lotta sciatic pain that makes sitting for long periods of time difficult; turns out my spine is disintegrating a lil earlier than most on account of my shit posture lol). but now that i've had some time away and have drawn some more suwas, i figured it was time to come back and update again! so i added my newest suwa arts of course, but also. i spent some time reorganizing things to make futureproofing easier. meaning: i added folders so that things will be way easier to find as i move forward and add more to the site. figured it would be wise to do that now while there are still relatively few images and assets on here.
that's probably the biggest drawback of making your own website i guess... you do have to think forwards unless you wanna cause problems for yourself later down the line, but thinking forwards and preparing for the future is hard when you don't have any experience. something as simple as just adding folders for organizing behind the scenes, where someone visiting won't even know or see the difference unless they were paying attention to direct image URLs, took like over an hour of going back and adding the file paths to all of the code orz
but as much of a pain as it is, it's nice to learn and the pain is worth it for the sake of something i'm doing out of passion. plus while i was in there i decided to future-proof in other ways, like reorganizing the galleries to sort from newest to oldest and adding completion dates to each of the images. now returning visitors (me lol) can see my newest art first without having to scroll all the way down, and i think the dates help show the progression of the time spent developing a little bit more clearly.
in fact, as i'm writing this i think i may go back and add subfolders to my art gallery to distinguish between seiso and unseiso art, and maybe even put everything under another folder labelled suwa just in case i wanna make pages for other OCs someday... hmm....
back at it again at krispy kreme dude. spent some time making a site button this morning! (tiny little floating pixel suwa head my beloved...) i also changed up the backgrounds for each of the different boxes on the index page; not sure why, but my changes aren't visible via my desktop browser yet even though they're showing up just fine on mobile. so i'm assuming it's not a coding mistake and is some other nebulous issue i haven't figured out yet. and finally i added expandable details sections to the suwa containment area just to make it feel a bit less overwhelming. :')
but more importantly!!!! i nabbed a custom domain and bit the bullet to pay for a neocities supporter subscription hehe... goodbye swaginald.neocities.org hello suwa.channel!!! i was gonna grab suwa.art but.... it turns out .art domains are expensive as hell lol. but this one was only $7 for the year with a $7 renewal fee next year and it reminds me of vtuber channel names so i'm like, cool that's familiar and cute and comfy i'll take it! .ink was also an option but i think that would have felt more right to me if i were a tradional artist.
i still have things i'd like to do like filling out my links page a bit less hastily and also figuring out what i should put on the home page, but for now i'll slow my roll a bit and make edits in smaller chunks. the suwa stuff is what's most important to me, and i think i've got it mostly how i'd like it for the time being!
ok even more edits; i kind of got on a roll i think!! added a visitor counter, filled out all of the suwainfo and uploaded all of his gallery thus far, added and filled out an nsfw section, figured out how to make links within the iframe open in another window, made the formatting from page to page a bit more consistent, and added a page title and favicon! had a bit of a scare when i saw that all of the kanji in his name were broken up until i learned that i needed to specify the use of utc-8 for his bio section in order for them to show up properly lmfao. but i'm proud of myself for figuring out how to fix that and for everything else i've completed so far. this has definitely been much less scary to work on than i feared!
wow okay more edits already! i found a very very easy free-to-use responsive gallery code so i added that to the suwa containment area, and i also figured out how to change the iframe border color and remove the main border so that the double border effect that had been bothering me went away lol. i also changed the size of the marquee text to fit better! currently just adding more personalized flavor and preparing to fill out more suwa info.
hi i am learning to code currently wow so cool and awesome yippee