FABLED.DAY - site update log

Updates

This site soft-launched in July of 2024. It is not a blog. It is incomplete, insofar as most of these pages I’ve currently planned have yet to be uploaded. A lot of this has already been written or coded, but has yet to be documented or HTML-ized, so to speak. Also, like any good internet site, Fabled.day will be updated regularly with new material. Really, one could say it will never truly be complete. The below logbook tracks changes to the site, including those to the theme and interface, new content, and other updates.

November 8th, 2024 Do you use Last.fm? If you do, you can generate an API key and share, via your website, your recent listens. I've been experimenting with it, and made several small versions that kind of work?
October 20th, 2024 Added an article on five reasons the 2000s were terribad. Make of it what you will, and some of what I have to say is rather specific, but symptomatic of wider societal issues that existed at the time.
October 19th, 2024 I've updated my Sounds page with several new playlists, including one featuring over fifty hours of Russian rap and hip hop. I've also added a nifty trinket to the sidebar, which shows what I've been listening to on Spotify.
October 15th, 2024 Inspired by the work of Iriu, I've posted a guide to manipulating the way neocities grabs screen captures from your page. Well, not really a full guide, more like a short, curious look from a beginner (me) who figured some things out.
October 14th, 2024 The section focused on the future of the internet now has some content uploaded, but is incomplete.
October 10th, 2024 Expect more and more site updates. Work on the Aristasian Reminiscence Project has, strangely enough, nearly had me breaking down. Learning coding while working on this site is a welcome respite.
September 29th, 2024 I'm not really doing great, so I'm spending a lot of time working on this site to distract myself. I'm thinking I'll write a list of all the reasons the 2000s were somewhat terrible, just to remind everyone that nostalgia tends to cloud reality. I'm also working on what will become a web serial in October, but none of that is online yet.
September 26th, 2024 You may have seen the dog (Lulu) in the sidebar. Would you like to know more about her, and website mascots in general? I've written a short guide here, featuring trivia about Lulu and tips for choosing your own mascot.
September 25th, 2024 Posted a little guide to chatlogs coded flavorfully in HTML. Obviously, these aren't meant to really spill tea, but it is a fun way of displaying conversations, is it not? Your readers won't take it seriously, and neither should you - it's charming and fun, though!
September 18th, 2024 I wrote an ode to comments in code. Don't you just love labels? Annotations? Probably not, but with HTML and especially CSS, they're growing on me. Also, you can actually make them look quite interesting, as a treat.
September 17th, 2024 Significant updates to the section about site creation itself. Or, rather, the section about websites as a medium for expressing a message. This doesn't include any of my rambles yet, but I've added some neat notes about how you might prepare a template for use... as a template!
September 16th, 2024 Would you like to read a bit about how I figured out figures? Most people just insert images as needed into their pages - this works well for decorative purposes, but if your images are illustrations - charts, photos, etc - you might want to put them in figure tags.
September 2nd, 2024 I've made significant updates to the Before Times section, adding a couple new stories and bits of lore to visit, as well as as a curated nostalgia stroll. You can also read about Eternal Septembers, and a (weak) code to septemberize the date.
August 21st, 2024 I've added a page on how I turn premade templates into zippier templates. Check it out, though I'm not sure if it'll be useful to anyone - it's just the method I use.
August 18th, 2024 I've started a little webring for sites with lots of text. Interested in joining? Contact me!
August 14th, 2024 I've added some additional personal information, including a small status widget and extra contact methods, to the sidebar.
August 10th, 2024 The majority of the site's index pages, which list all contents extant within a category alongside descriptions, are now live. Consider this the site's main launch, I guess?
August 2nd, 2024 Site structure and Table of Contents are now live, but many links are non-functional, leading to my new Not Found page instead.
July 29th, 2024 I've adopted an akita inu puppy to guard the site. Her name is Lulu, and she should now be found watching you from the sidebar. She may look friendly but will attack on command.
July 24th, 2024 I'm sharing a vast whirlwind of likeable sites from the indie web now; the list is not organized and, in fact, the table itself is randomized to prevent playing favorites, but there's plenty to explore!
June 26th, 2024 The site now includes some pages sharing coding snippets with (rather effusive, but what did you expect of me?) documentation; I'm trying my best. I had hoped to post something unrelated to web development first, but my excitement over this elaborate form got to me.
June 8th, 2024 Having decided on a template provided by Foollovers, I've spruced it up as much as possible, and done extensive customizations with fonts, colors, and even sounds, and chopped it up to make it easier to use.
June 2nd, 2024 I realize most everyone on neocities uses whatever Github is, but I registered an account with Code Pen and signed up as a premium member. You can visit my work there, but it will ultimately be mirrored on this site.
April 20th, 2024 Inception of site; decided to name the site Fabled, and took a couple short polls in relevant Discord servers to decide on a TLD, ultimately choosing .day, of course. Domain name registered soon after.

To Do List

Upload some of my essays. I've got several about the nature of content creation online that I'd like to share, as the site itself implies. I'm no expert or designer, but I might as well share my thoughts as a user of the web.
Upload some details about text effects. I've collected a great deal of CSS code for interesting and creative text display effects to be used with links, titles, and anything, really. I'd like to start sharing those.
Improve mobile interface. It can almost always be improved at this point, and the current version, while a definite improvement over the original out-of-the-box version, is mediocre at best. I can do better!