I have updated Compassion, my fansite about the Star Trek: TNG episode “Darmok”, to be a multi-page site, as well as embedding some wonderful YouTube videos on the topic on my Links page. Check out the changes–this should help the site feel a lot less cluttered, haha!
Actual Updates (with Glitches)
Good news: I finally uploaded Version 17, The Sacred Sea, which has been sitting in development hell on my computer since 2020! Much rejoicing!! I DID A WEB DESIGN THINGY <3 annddddddd I have officially participated in the Amassment web design event being held on Discord this fall!
What’s been updated:
- Main domain, with 2 pages of new content (gifts and a beginner’s guide to hobby webdesign)
- Network page
- Explore page and links page (stopped using the /exits/ and /exits/links/ URLs because I cannot be bothered anymore, LOL)
Bad news: I can’t get the text links to stop using default color and formatting, and I can’t get the paragraphs to stop looking all squashed together. ( Everything else works on the stylesheet, and W3C didn’t catch any code errors, so I have no idea why these two rules are broken.)
I will try to fix it tomorrow, but if I can’t get it fixed, it will probably have to wait till the end of the semester. HOWEVER! I am still counting this as a win because I wasn’t sure I was going to be able to do it. Fall Break helped my brain breathe long enough to do it <3<3<3
And now I am off to get started on my night routine (and try to make my brain shut up about the glitchy code XD)
New Site: Compassion!
As part of the Amassment One-Pager Event on Discord, I finally got off my webdesign butt and created a new site:
Compassion
“Darmok,” episode from Star Trek: The Next Generation
This is my absolute favorite Star Trek episode, and I’ve had this site on the back burner literally since 2015–so glad for this event to help push me to make it! I hope you enjoy learning some more about this episode, and if you love TNG and have a site, definitely contact me about affiliation or link-exchange!
Music Updates and Happy News
First off, a wonderful wonderful update: I got married on June 21st, 2020! A day I have thought about for twelve and a half years finally came true thanks to the help of lots of loving friends and family <3 it was awesome! 😀
One reason I’ve been pretty slow on updates around here is that my new husband and I are now living in (and renovating/cleaning out) the three floors of the home I grew up in. My dad got remarried in April and moved in with my stepmom instead of staying here–her one-level house is safer for him, given his limited mobility (especially since his strokes in 2018 and 2019). So we’re working on replacing carpet, painting, redecorating as necessary, and processing out all the items we no longer need, etc…which is taking a LOT of time but will be well worth it in the end!
I did, however, make some time to update my “new music” playlist over at Mellifluous–didn’t realize I’d discovered 14 new songs since February! 😀 Check it out when you get a chance!
Updated 2020: Mellifluous!
I updated my music site, Mellifluous, this evening! Now it loads with a fresh new YouTube playlist, containing my recent favorite music–no more waiting years to update because I don’t feel like fiddling with HTML. Woo for modern conveniences!
While updating, I also discovered that all my other playlists and even one of the videos on my All Time Favs page was deleted or missing, so I went through and fixed those problems. All playlists and videos should be good to go again! (It had been about 3 years since I checked them…whoops, lol)
Anyhow, enjoy the newness, and I hope you find a new favorite song among the things I’ve added! I’ve got a little bit of everything!
Declutter and Unspend Updated!
I met my January goal of tidying up Declutter and Unspend! YAY! Good momentum thus far! (The content just needed a bit of rewriting, and there was a code bug in there I had to squash too, LOL)
The next goal will be is to rework and relaunch my gaming site, The Gamer’s Repose. Proposed changes so far:
- Probably archive most if not all of the “game guides” pages within the individual game sections
- Write more articles for the “Gaming Tips” sections
- Combine all lists of links into a masterlist, and sort it better
- Condense “Site Info” into one page
- Condense Sitemap
- Completely redesign layout
I’ve already started on a lot of this work (like the layout, combining and condensing), but it still needs a lot of love. I want to make it an unusual gaming site, more focused on the life of a gamer, how to take care of collections, how to have more fun with it…any ideas for articles along that line that you’d like to see? Send it through the contact form!
The Year Ahead for WMW.oRG
Phew, can you believe it’s already 2020?! Lots of things have been happening IRL, but I did want y’all to know I’ve got some great stuff planned for this year:
- January 2020: Rework my two GIF-heavy advice sites, Declutter and Unspend
- February 2020: Revamp and relaunch my gaming site, The Gamer’s Repose
- March 2020: Update my music site, Mellifluous
- April 2020: Launch of my Seto Kaiba fansite, tentatively called Progress
- May 2020: Rework and update my faith site, Living Words
- June-August 2020: Time off, because a wedding and honeymoon could be happening! :D!
- September 2020: Resume work on my Eighth Doctor fansite, Absentia
- October 2020: Rework and relaunch my ASMR site, Unwind
- November 2020: Resume work on my Sound of Music fansite, Something Good
- December 2020: Perhaps the launch of a fun new project that’s currently in development, if time permits!
YAY I might actually get most of this done this year! Message me and let me know what you’re working on this year 😀
Updated: Tomorrow’s Calling!
Tomorrow’s Calling
a world of Animal Crossing fansite
After 2 years of being suuuuper lazy, I finally fixed up this site, adding TONS of illustrative images and rewording content where necessary. Let me know what y’all think (and if you find any code bugs I still need to squish, let me know that, too xD)!
New Friend Link and behind-the-scenes work!
The Nostalgia Project has its first link! Ainna of Northstar.nu emailed me a few days ago and let me know that my site had inspired her to finish her own nostalgic project about the late 90s web clique Scented Angels–her lovely tribute is called Scented, and so I’ve linked to it there to join in the memory fun! (I’ve also linked Ainna’s main domain on my Links page, under “friends”–check her site out when you get a chance!
Also, I’m currently doing background work on both Tomorrow’s Calling and The Gamer’s Repose. Both sites will receive edits to their articles, pictures, and layouts as I get time–no changes are up yet, but I hope to have some things uploaded soon. (I am superbly lazy and spend a lot of time messing around on my tablet at home, XD, but I am getting things done slowly but surely!)
New Site: The Nostalgia Project!
FINALLY! WOOHOO!
This is the thing I’ve sortakindanot been working on since…March? April? I don’t even know, but I finally finished it! Yay for work computers and plenty of downtime to put the finishing touches on it! (Using my personal computer has become a bit of a beast, and I’ve learned that I am not 20 anymore and thus cannot hunch over a laptop in bed for hours on end without paying for it later. Oops xD)
This site is a flashback to good memories and good times for me, remembering the style of late 90s/early 00s fansite designs and content, using new tools and resources to recreate the old aesthetic, and revisiting a very important part of my fandom life. (I even have a splash page! So early 2000s! So legit!! LOL)
I hope this site is as fun for you to visit and read as it was for me to create–I sure relearned and remembered a lot, and reconnected with a part of myself I hadn’t realized had faded into the background. Let me know what you think, and I hope it inspires you!