Welcome to the Devblog for the Fumos site
So, back again. Its been a long time since I have updated the website. I have been "umm"ing and "ah"ing about using older web design software to aid me in designing the site. Something like Serif or the Windows Web dev tools from the 90s and 2000s. I have also started another site. Stupidly. It means I now have two sites I am wholy unsatsified with.
As it stands, I am not getting rid of the sites or abandoning them, I am simply taking my time. This is a hobby after all. My other site, roshervillegardens.co.uk is another hobby site, dedicated to a part of my local history. I will probably start on that again next and focus on that one first, as it has an actual end goal.
Fumos have not taken a back seat, I just need more efficient ways of handling images. I also see some of these other websites dedicated to anime and I feel very inedpt. It does crush me a little, but I know its my own fault for not putting in the work. Not that I have time, with actual work taking up a huge chunk of my time. Time is also something I now realise we get little of. Courtesy of being hospitalised for a mini stroke at the age of 25. I realised there are things I want to do, and the longer I leave it, the more likely I will never get it done
So on that lovely note, I have some progress. I have fixed the guestbook and actualy used my premium benefits to add the iframe to the site, meaning the button "sign my guestbook" is pointless. But I will keep it there as I like the blinkies and it does link to the new guestbook anyway.
I do have some goals, future me. First is find a better way to handle these blogs / updates. I cannot keep typing away in to an HTML file. Second on the list, make the site more appealing to look at. The pink hurts. Third is to actually include more Fumos. You know, the plushies this site is named after? Fourth and final thing, actually spread the word about the site. At the moment, I am typing to the void. I know this, and it doesn't help with motivation. Don't be scared, tell the world you are terrible at coding :D
There goes my hope of not losing interest. To be fair, its not that I have lost it, more I have no motivation to act on it. Something I really struggle with is keeping momentum, whether it be exercise, hobbies or work.
I have made a few changes since the last post, the most recent being the reorganisation of this page. From now on, all new posts will be at the top.
For a while I have wondered what to do with this site. I wanted it to be dynamic, filled with my ramblings but now I am not sure. It may still end up with my doomposting but I am not sure. One thing I wanted to try was using a desginer to create the pages instead of raw coding. It may help me to "Visualise" my changes. I have an old BTEC blog I made in Serif that I might put up, just as an example.
I do have one idea, based on the name of the site, which is to rank the fumos I own in a mini database. Something cute like that.
I will update this site and it is not abandoned, I just need to figure some stuff out.
I may make these updates weekly as daily updates will clog up the page. I may try to figure out how to condense these.
So far, I managed sort out a side bar. After a ton of trial and error, the main page has a side bar which for now will have links, stamps and blinkies. It took a long time to figure out. It ended up to the right, top, stacked and then finally, I got it to where I want. God knows if I can repeat that.
I changed my banner on the fumo shrine but I may create a gallery instead. I need to work out how to get thumbnails to work and then link to the larger images or maybe watermark them and purposely make them worse quality
I added a few extra links on the nav bar but they dont go anywhere yet.
I am also considering paying the 5 dollars to link my domain and get more storage
Lists are fixed. After realising I could put a class before the li element in the CSS file, such as ".nav li", I was able to only apply what I needed to the nav bar and not affect any other lists in the web page.
I also managed to add that white background for the content on the main page. I simply added a background to a new class called indexcontent or something and then put all of my content in that class.
All of my code is probably super bad but it works for now and I can work with my mess. Fumo shrine is also taking shape. I added a few images in to a table. Cant center it but at the moment, its not important.
The images can be opened in full form with righjt click open in new tab but I want to get them to open when clicked soon. I plan to add a side bar and a few other pages. My progress so far has inspired me greatly
First off, the blog section should look different. I am writing this in the HTML file so I won't know yet. Each date should be a title and then a small subtitle.
The site is looking much better. Last night I stayed up later than I should have to figure stuff out. I managed to make a nav bar that indents when hovered over. I was more tired than I liked
as I managed to break the nav bar multiple times before I got it right. One thing I did notice is that all my lists are now broken. I will need to figure that one out.
My next task is to get a background for the content while still having the main background. I hope I don't get too frustrated and quit. I have never felt this out of my depth before.
After some googling and playing around, I managed to make the background and center the page. The border was a nice addition but I may remove it
as It doesnt fit with what I want. I also want to find out how to seperate certain parts of the CSS so I can manuever only certain portions around but thats a while off yet.
Maybe one day, I will be able to create what I want but I am happy with the two days of progress, I must admit. I am also annotating my code so I know what does what.
After playing around, I managed to get classes working and work out how classes are referenced. I also managed to center only the title in the end and get a button to link to my Devblog
I know nothing about HTML other than the Basics and CSS scares me.
Seeing the site in raw form fills me with anxiety that I wont be able to make it look nice