Sunday 12/1/25

I haven't used HTML or CSS in a very, VERY long time

It took me six hours on Friday night to even make the index page! Admittedly two of those hours were me trying to relearn how to get the banner to sit right at the top of my screen, and even still, it looks kinda wonky on a mobile device. *sigh* I just can't win it all.

My wife was impressed that I remembered my hex code color from back during my MySpace days (it's the background color of all these pages). It was one of my favorite colors, so of course i remembered it! I used that color for EVERYTHING. As long as it took to build just one page, I realized how much I missed taking time to actually BUILD something instead of slinging thoughts into a box owned by someone else only to be stylized and tossed into the faces of everyone I know and don't know, all in an attempt to keep you on their app so they can sell you things you don't need. Does it take a little more work? Sure does, but this is MINE and I BUILT IT and I can put ANYTHING I WANT up here and people don't have to interract with it if they don't want to. It's pretty freeing!

I don't feel like I need to doomscroll or have a faceless algo shove my stuff into people's eyeballs and force them to interract with me. It's like the Content Machine equivilent of slapping two Barbies together.

Like maybe I can just put words or whatever out there and folks can just read it. I went viral a few times and I did not like it! I don't need to know your opinions on my shit, you know? I don't want to hear every thought about how I am right or wrong, or like, have discourse or dialouge with you with everything I put up. Cool if you like it, cool if you don't, but I honestly just wanna be left alone... LET ME BE A HERMIT OKAY?

Anyway, enough grunting

Today's adventure is going to be adding a second page to the website. I am worried that I won't remember how to do it. This will be a spot to put my thoughts, etc. Y'know, like what blogging used to be like back when the internet was cool.

My Overall Plan (so far)

Here's some quick ideas for different pages I want for this site:

• Blog (or log)
• Newsletters (moved over from Substack, because I'm predicting that those guys are gonna start using AI or go to the fash soon).
• Photolog
• Events
• Books I'm reading (or reviews of books I read)
• Zine Library (of zines I either made or found)
• Some Cool Links to articles or whatever
• IDK maybe a spot for knitting or leftish shit or something?

I'm still working on what I wanna do and not do here. I'm also trying to figure out how to make multiple boxes on the side, and how to make my Bio box shorter. Also, how to make the little icon on a website tab into something else, like an emoji or something. If you know how to do any of that, or can point me to a few webites that have CSS/HTML codes for them, let me know. I'm building off of a CSS template I found online, but my HTML skills are severely lacking.

I am still trying to figure out how people can contact me, but if you know me in media res, then you already know how to reach me directly, so do that. Everyone else can - like - comment or something in the Neocities thing or whatever I guess. Maybe I'll put a comment box or toss my protonmail up here but I also don't really wanna open myself up to dialouge with strangers or "internet friends" anymore. Still thinking about it...anyway.

I hope you have a relaxing day, wherever you are.

- Kelso