Fabled

Warm Greetings, Darling!

Welcome to Fabled.day! Here, you can follow my return to web development and coding as a hobby. I’ll also be sharing some ancient tales and legends from the web of yesteryear.

Lots of sites on neocities focus on coding tutorials, graphics resources, and the like. This site, while having a similar purview, will be tailored towards those wanting to create larger (in terms of number of pages and files, not megabytes), text-based websites. I want to learn to better express myself online in this unique environment, and maybe I can help others, too. I think that too many people ignore the potential neocities (and similar places) have for that kind of sharing. Larger sites, showcasing everything from stories to research, definitely should be more encouraged.

You do not see this often enough on the “small” static web, nor the web at large, which is dominated by videos and images. I think it can be agreed that large posts don’t work well on most social media platforms, which tend to either have a “microblogging” or “tweet-like” format.

Social media is, also, we’ll agree, dull for many of us who grew up on the colorful web of yesteryear. Really now, all those white backgrounds drenched in wasted potential bore even the most devout cybernaut.

Aesthetics, then, also play a role here - my goal is not just to explain and explore methods for creating and maintaining larger sites, but also to share how this might be done in a beautiful, accessible, and elegant fashion true to the creative roots of the internet.

Fabled is not a site that features graphics or templates, but rather, simple code snippets, tips, and tutorials, as well as small articles about relevant topics. Expect a section for links to sites with useful templates and graphics, though.

Nearly all resources presently hosted on Fabled are optimized for desktop viewers, but most will function on mobile. Some look quite silly on mobile, but are nonetheless functional. Most can be integrated with an existing responsive theme with passable success, too. I hope to provide more mobile resources in the future.

Tales of the Before Times

Lots of cool and interesting things happened back in the early years of the internet, one must admit! I want a place to talk about that, too! This site will contain, ultimately, some tales of life growing up back then - online. I’ll share these memories of sites (long since vanished) and dear communities of the early years, things like that, but also funny stories about how I learned to use America Online and Yahooligans at school. I’m not quite sure what extent this section will have, nor exactly what it will include, but have plans for several little articles so far.

Table of Contents

And here, we find a general directory of most every page and section on this site. It even lists some that are planned, yet haven’t been completed (denoted with the ∅ sign). This isn’t a comprehensive peek at my plans for the site by any means. You can see general updates, as well as some of what's planned, on the updates page. This does give you an idea both of what I’ve posted already about content management, site creation, and other related topics, as well as future subjects for articles, sections, or tutorials. If you would like a peek at the code for this collapsing series of unordered lists used to create the below index, snag the code here.

Why Fabled?

So, why is this site called Fabled, in case you’re curious? The word, after all, shares much in common with terms like legendary and renowned, of deep historical significance, too. It also, though, carries the connotation of mythological or even fictitious. And why Fabled.day, of all possible TLDs? It certainly doesn’t have much to do with the content of the site, and was chosen for aesthetics, yet…

The phrase sounds nigh apocalyptic, doesn’t it? Meaningful on many levels if one thinks within the mindset of a millennial. Much of our lives has been fabled in one way or another, and often in many different ways at once. Draw your own conclusions, and maybe choose what it means to you, personally, if anything at all.

Link and Like

I am including here a button you can use to link to this site if you’d like. Please save it to your own webspace and do not hotlink. Linking to this site is always appreciated, but not really necessary. In other words, crib if you want, dearies. Just limit it to my mediocre code, alright?

No copying my writings, however ridiculous they may be, and be mindful that the theme of this site itself was very much partially the work of Foollovers.com; do credit them if you use anything of theirs. If you yourself have reason to believe I've somehow borrowed from you and you find it unacceptable, please simply contact me. Nine times out of ten, I will just remove the content in question if it is indeed borrowed. I try to follow everyone's policies, though!

If you are active on neocities, consider following me there I share updates on my profile as well as the updates page here. I strongly encourage anyone seeking a static site host to consider neocities, speaking of which. It is one of the most ubiquitous options for a reason. Some other very zippy sites can be found linked on my wall of buttons.