RE: Neocities Intimidates Me
R Writes about how intimidating it is to build your own website. It intimidated me too! It's a level of code that brings me back to my computational linguistics course senior year. I still don't know Python after 16 weeks of learning.
However, I did it. On a similar static web hosting service, Nekoweb.
Trying to get through my last days of work has been boring, so I finally decided to learn the shit I've been intimidated by.
I like Nekoweb since you can do more for free, but they also have their OWN CODE EDITOR that is beautiful (not free btw, but you get a trial). For nerds, this is just VS code with a skin or whatever but I seriously don't understand how to use app-based code editing software. I'm getting used to these kinds of interfaces by using this in-browser editor.
It takes alot of emotions to learn this stuff from scratch, mostly frustration. My nekoweb website isn't ready yet, but I'm really surprised that I wrote and troubleshooted (troubleshot?) so much code. Today I spent an hour trying to learn why my page wasn't loading certain fonts on different devices. Still don't completely understand why, but it is what it is.
I started learning HTML and CSS from zero by customizing my bear blog in January. Believe it or not, this page started out with the Terminal Theme. I just wanted it to be pink. Ended up with this neon tubing theme somehow. My nekoweb site was also based off a set theme made by someone else, however they only made the homepage, and the code was a bit inflexible, so i ended up changing everything but the bare bones layout.
A long time ago, someone wrote about how they think Bear wont last forever, despite Herman's intention to. Kinda like the slow, painful death of Weebly. I feel like Google's Blogger will die soon as well. Bear is not nearly as commercialized and obnoxious as other beginner-friendly blog hosts so I think it will last very long, but I have come to terms with the fact that it might not be here when I'm old. And that hurts as a digital hoarder. I wanna read about how depressed or happy I was in my early 20's when I'm 60. That's why I wanted to learn how to build a static website.
It really just takes a willingness to learn and make mistakes. Something I haven't had in a long time.
