Blog testing!!!!!

Welcome to patient zero of my entries!!!

I'm testing out this..... obviously hahahahah. hmm.. in the meantime, I could maybe write about.. well, this site. or like, how i decided to make one

I actually wanted to make a site a couple of years ago, but I couldnt figure out CSS anddd I was on my phone 90% of the time, which wouldve been inconvenient for actually making a site :'). all this time, I was still interested in making sites, though.... I didn't really try to learn how to beyond the most basic of basics.

So, years pass without a site. I end up on Tumblr as a result of wanting to talk about a thing im into. what's this? One of my tumblr mutuals has a neocities website linked on their pinned post. I check it out and like it! Reading the blogs was fun. I sometimes kept up with it from time to time. I was sort of inspired. Their site had more creativity than what current social media would offer. Maybe I could attempt actually making a site, for eel this time? well... I still didn't really start. school keeping me busy as well as me just being a lazy, phone-addicted idiot overall. Though, around this time I started thinking about a personal site more often than before.

My lazy phone-addicted tendencies then caused trouble-- who could've known?! (haha, sarcasm). I won't get into detail, this isn't the time for that, BUT! Being in a state of fear with not very great ways to... cope(???), I latched on to attempting to make a website as a means of venting out my feelings with a nice layout that's not confined to the suffocating molds of social media. or well uh. I didn't want to vent on my main tumblr blog and not too much on my public-yet-secret sideblog because I had a singular follower who would've been subjected to my vent posts and not on the password-protected blog either because idk im stupid. okay the real reason is that I felt lonely.

So then I went searching for resources and tutorials and just making my site with the small amount of html i still remembered, and actually linking a css file?! sure, it was only to center text, but that was still an achievement in my book, because I actually did something! Despite not feeling too great, the more I thought about my potential website, the happier my mood became. In class, I had some sticky notes that I doodled on. about what kind of site I'd like for myself. Though this was initially a way for me to vent to the void, it evolved into something I found myself really enjoying. As I continued to make changes to my draft, it stopped being purely a way for me to shout out emotions digitally and instead.. well, to share things I'd otherwise be too afraid to!

At some point, I gathered up the courage to send an ask to my tumblr mutual from earlier, saying that their site inspired me. The encouragement felt like the last push to give it my all in learning CSS for the site I dreamed of, once and for all!

...Before that, I was still drafting layout ideas. I also began a small notebook where I put down my sticky note doodles of the ideas and such things. I dubbed it my 'dev diary'. That might not be actually suitable for what I was doing, but ya know... I just wanted to have a bit of fun. My notebook's been a bit neglected ever since I made the layouts tho... Most likely I'll keep it, at least for jotting down ideas and thoughts on what I want here to be. and it's just nice to have a notebook IMO!

I stumbled upon Petrapixel's site, but this time with a bit more knowledge on html and css, and felt that maybe I could tackle the feat that is flexbox and/or grid layout? initially I thought I'd use flexbox, But grids seemed to come easier to me. Of course I didn't learn it all in one day ^^' Took a ton of trial and error. It took me so long to try and stop images from overflowing in the main content, until I realized to delete the main content's fixed height.. and it just stretched to accommodate the image, and it looked just how i was thinking of it being like!!! Then I made the image a bit smaller and added a thing where you can click on it to open it up in a new tab in its full resolution. wow, awesome! I actually wanted to make it a lightbox-type thing but I learned I need javascript for that and I thought.... maybe I'll get back to it far in the future haha. Besides, I still have my other pages to make!

speaking of my other pages...