I talked earlier about how I started this website. I saw a bunch of cool websites here, got inspired, made my own, self-learnt a bit of code and viola! This cozy home has been born. But have I ever talked about how exactly it was creating my site? I did say it was a struggle or hard to do, but I never went in depth with this. I shall start. This well, it was surely an adventure. Since of course, I didn’t have ANY experience in programming and HTML, it was all foreign... It felt similar to being willingly stranded on foreign island. At the start, I didn’t understand anything. Divisions, headers, flex boxes, tables, table rows, table D’s, a hrefs, footer, headers, style attributes and more. But come on, most coders never knew that even existed until they kept going and learned. Now, I kept on surviving and took care of my before stranded island! It was now a beautiful, magnificent and still stranded island, but now with many visitors and support! I’m not good at analogies. It makes sense does it not?
I think the most fun part of the process of making my website was planning. It always looked better on paper. I always had new ideas and implementations. And seeing how creative I got designing a portion of the website and slowly bringing it back to life is what inspires me to keep coding. Making mistakes is part of the learning process. Figuring them out and resolving these problems is something I partly enjoyed doing. It definitely was a bit frustrating when I couldn’t figure out why the site didn’t turn out how it imagined, or what went wrong now that everything is all messy and scrambly. But when you understand and resolve this why, it’s satisfying! And I definitely modified my website sections atleast a bajillion trillion times, shaping it into something I’d be somewhat satisfied seeing. So the splash section you see once you visit my website? It wasn’t even added until 2 months ago! And the home page wasn’t always so… Well actually, it was still as vivid back then as it is now. If you want a visual to see how my site was on August first, check out this Wayback machine thing! https://web.archive.org/web/20240801014226/https://doritochan001.neocities.org/
So what do I want to say with this? The process of making my website was an enthrilling journey. I am still in the belief that coding should be something everyone should try atleast once. Technology and code is everywhere. If there is no computer, there is no program. And if there is no program, there is no function. I’m happy with how my website is. It is not fully done yet as there are always new things I wish to add. But even so, I hope you can have fun exploring every nook and cranny, alongside some fun hidden easter eggs you may or may not see!~
The date is October 26, 2024