Only a little update for now, Buttons, Bloggies and small Xmas decorations! I'm adding small blurbs of text to Deadweb here and there and just playing with poorly wand-tooled PNG's.
Little attempt at putting the Zine pics on the page. Still looks a little bad though.
11 - 2024: The Deadweb prototype!
Moved the Shrines to the My Projects page. Still working on the Zine page. It's hard to try and fit good and large enough pictures in that flimsy iframe without it becoming a mess.
Also! Deadweb! I'm working on some pages where I just yap on and on about old junk from ages ago. Dedicated link in the right sidebar at the bottom. Deadweb still needs a lot of work, but getting the basic skeletons of pages out there helps motivate me to keep it up!
You may have caught the balloons and streamers for a few days, it was a mini birthday celebration!
10 - 2024: Happy Halloween!
It's Halloween! Almost! Sorta! Nothing too big today, small addition to My Projects with another Zine I made a few days ago. Small Bloggie about stickers I'm playing around with. As always, still thinking about changing the layout of this place and all that. We'll see how we do! I've been thinking about bringing the secret pages a bit more forward and maybe editing them up a little.TI
10- 2024: Commision call outs!
Today, Bloggie and another request.
2 of my friends have commisions running and could use a bit of an assist. If it doesn't speak to you, no worries, sharing is caring, too!
Matcha.EXE has fun, bright art and offers tons of options from sketch, bust, full body and above and beyond! I recently got a cute little thing made and Matcha.exe was very kind, kept me up to date, ran a lot past me to check and got me giant wonderful versions of my simple commision. You can reach them through your preferred method or browse their store at this link!
Joan can play you anything from acid jazz to 8-bit grindcore! Self taught and well versed in a multitude of instruments! She has musical commisions open right now and can be found by her Tumblr here or her KOFI here!
Thank you for reading!
9 - 2024: Same as it ever was.
More buttons and a bloggie! It's almost Halloween and I have nothing ready! I tried to mess a little with the colour scheme of the site but it was atrocious and I dumped it.
Still thinking about that Media page, but I just can't really think of a structure when I start tooling around in Dreamweaver. A little thing I try to do is keep everything within 2 clicks of each other. I don't want to make it so you have to go through more than 2 pages to get anywhere on the site. I don't want to make too many sub pages, but sometimes I have to scale ideas back to either fit in the iframe or blow it up to fill a full page. Both results are a little ugly to look at.
oh well.
9 - 2024: Galted with the sauce
Updated the Galt Undivided pages with colours for text and the picture of the Woodsedge council. Redid some pics on a secret page and finished my Morrowind Shrine! I made a little zine called "I have always been normal about Pokemon" a while ago and it gave me another idea for a pokemon shrine. I'm still not 100% sure where to go with that. Wanna merge the Shrine's and My Projects into a Media page and then maybe throw in write-up's on junk I like. Keep a little bookshelf, too.
I also joined the Transing the Internet webring! Check out my neighbours with the widget up there!
8 - 2024: Shout out
In the grim current age there is only... ummm... 40k visitors... to the imperium of Rat? Yes. 40k visitor party! For a mostly self indulgent little website I think it's neat I've reached some many people. Your mileage may vary. More buttons, no real bloggie. I've been a little sick here and there the last few weeks.
There is something I would like to ask though!
A friend of mine is about to make a big move to another country and could use a little bit of an assist.
You can find her website here, her Tumblr here and her ko-fi here!
If you can miss a bit of pocket change, it would go a long way. Even if you can't right now, don't worry.
8 - 2024: Inversion!
I finally tried messing with the colours of the site after some one shot me a helpful message about it. I had kinda fallen in love with the high contrast, but making the site reable is not something I wanna slouch on. It might still be subject to slight change.
Next to that, new buttons! Still thinking about roll-over images!
7 - 2024: Call me LaptopRat
Motherboard in my main PC is busted, so I'm just gonna mess around on my little laptop for bit. Little update to the Best Buds page and a new bloggie. Fixed how some pages would try and open new links inside the iFrame, still looking into roll-over images for the nav bar. Added some links to the blinkies again.
The Progress Pride flag used to lead to the Trevor Project whose work I still support in a high degree, but they stopped opposing the KOSA bill and I raised an eyebrow.
LGBTQI+ things and freedom of internet information are both valueable to me.
I would love a bill that aims to cull the extremist junk online on EC & KF type of stuff, but that's not what it's gonna be weaponized for.
I don't care how many times the outspoken conservatives that penned this bill push it, fuck you.
6 - 2024 : Galt up-to-date'd!
We're caught up with Galt Undivided! Pages 6 to 10 are here! I also hung the flags back up for the 100th Follower party! I hope you brought cake this time, it happened faster then expected! I wanna look into making the side buttons more reactive looking. Rollover image with a cursor or something, ya know? Maybe use the same cursor to point down on the Buttons box down below to invite scrolling down. I wanna get more relevant Blinkies to link stuff through, too. I try to think back to old sig's I would have on forums, but I'm drawing a blank!
Also thinking about remodeling the idea of my Shrines. Maybe I want a "Media" page where I just yell about things I've seen/read/played and drop the current Final Fantasy and Morrowind stuff in there. I kinda like the site the way it is, but I wanna bring back a few old element likes a smaller Button box and maybe more variation in the pages. Less "everything in the Iframe box" and just a few whole new pages like Galt sorta does.
Which reminds me, I should fix
6 - 2024: TEAR IT ALL DOWN
Took down the party flags and the balloons, for now. On to the next year of rats! More buttons, bloggie and 2 more pages of the Pathfinder homebrew campaign of Galt Undivided. One of my favorite bits with Vaelron happens here. Happy Pride everyone!
5 - 2024: The 1 year anniversary!
While I only really started fiddeling with the site around November/December last year, The site was started at the end of May. I hung up some decorations to celebrate! I know I promised to get the Galt Undivided Campaign up here in full, but I've gotten a little sidetracked! All in due time, for now, go get some cake!
5 - 2024: Bones
Added the bare bones version of 2 notable projects/pages. Galt Undivided, found under the Tabletop sections and Koro from Eorzea, found under the Shrines.
Galt Undivided is a pathfinder game that I DM and player with 4 others in text only on Discord.
Koro from Eorzea is going to be a port over of my favorite FF14 blog pictures and such.
5 - 2024: Mini 'date
New bloggie, messed a little with a secret page, added more buttons and reworked the sidebar on the home page. Nothing big. I have a text-based tabletop adventure or 2 I might still wanna get on the site
Added a Tabletop Tips page!
4 - 2024: I got old DnB in the background
More buttons and a little bit of a redesign. I honestly don't know what to do with the site to a degree. The button bar is a constant I like to keep in view, but I also liked the simple small size of the previous one. I dunno. Also changed how the Tabletop Page goes into my Characters page. It was too much of a mess to have the 3 boxes up there in such a confined spot.
While the idea of the site was always to showcase some old webcomics, share some tabletop resources and some simple everyday tools, programs and apps for people; I also wanna talk about things I do and am beyond the hobbyist of nostalgia, dice and plants. I don't know how to start this. The blog is very minor and visual happenings while the secret about page is a speck of despair before it goes into a timeline. I suppose I'll find the balance at some point. Blogging sites don't always feel that great for blogging anymore, ya' know?
I started by hiding a new page in the blinkies.
4 - 2024: spelchekur
Actually ran things through a spell checker and cleaned up some text. Little blog addition and more buttons. The usual stuff! No big things this time around. Maybe I'll fiddle with the layout again later on.
3 - 2024: Squish
I've removed the Tumblr and Youtube page and pushed them into My Projects. Also rewrote a little bit of that page. Removed the blinkies for them in the top right, too. Looking to fix a lot of the spelling on this trash site when I can. Added more buttons, as usual. Been thinking about throwing up a little guestbook in the lower left corner and maybe some autoplaying 1999's DnB that starts at 20% volume by default.
Gonna clean up the About pages. While I do wanna scream into the void and hope someday someone reads my junk and feels the same and less alone, it's all a bit of a mess to read through now. If you had a chance to read the Secret About Pages before this, congrats! I'm still in a constant struggle to see how much of myself I want to put online. I wanna yap on about stuff, but people tend to hate vocal, queer, rat girls. You know how it is.
Still thinking on how to "fix" the Tabletop page. I want all of it on there, but 3 seperate boxes in this teeny space doesn't really work.
3 - 2024: Frame data
I've finally managed to get this site in a iframe. I wanted to do that before, but the ancient, gimmicky Dreamweaver 2004 MX that I use could not handle that. Tossing the code by hand was tricky for a while, but we got it. It's still a little jank on the edges, but I got done what I needed. No longer will I have to update 26 individual pages with the sidebars and the bottom button box whenever I wanna adjust the layout a wee bit. I know, I'm very efficient. Even now, the frame is held together by snippets of codes from between 2004 and 2024. you can almost smell the glue if you lean in close enough.
Honestly though, this is one of the fun moments in trying your hand at web design and kinda evolving in the same way the standards did from it's infancy to now. I started with Solar Cyber Punk being plain box of text, image, plain box of text. Then the first version of this site was done in old school tables. Then we went to Photoshop for slicing and dicing, throwing on layers. Now we arrive at iframes. It's almost like I'm learning things again by just trying out junk, how frightening.
3 - 2024: Refit
Redid the layout again. Very normal way to go about every update, very normal.
Shuffled around a few things, added more buttons and added a Blog. Shrines are back and it's just the Final Fantasy 1 and Morrowind one for now. I'm thinking I'm going to keep my shrines small, simple and just a tiny personal expression of the thing. Some will really just be a .png and that's all I need it to be.
2 - 2024: Button Mania
Just a little patching up. Some little additions to the Best Buds and Personal Project Pages. Also added more buttons down below. Still thinking about adding a journal here with dreadful state of most social platforms out there right now. I dunno. We'll see.
2 - 2024: BECOME GAINT
I made things a little bigger! I wanted a little more room and move some things around. Most of the site is still the same and only minor things have been reshuffled. Some pages have been joined together to make it easier to get around the site and to keep things simple.
I put the Shrines portion on the side for the moment. I've done a few mock-ups but can't really seem to get started. Maybe putting this update live inspires me, who knows.
1 - 2024: Housekeeping.
Cleaned up some text here and there, added more buttons and threw up a few pages of my idea for the Morrowind Shrine . Still wondering how I want to work the About Me pages I have. I like yapping on about stuff, perchance. I'm also wondering how I make the Tabletop stuff more visible while dodging C&D's and whatever.
I'm still looking on how to make everything more mine. I don't cover that much of my hobbies or interests on this page and it's not really set up to be a journal where I can toss random or passionate thoughts.
1 - 2024: Happy New Year!