realized I wasn't using html tags that are more screen reader-friendly. so now I'm adding nav/main/article tags to everything. if i do it now, it will be much easier to edit later..! right? sigh... this will probably be the last change I make before I move to business as usual. the accessibility is important to me, i want people to be able to enjoy my website even if they can't see or read it the same way i would. so i will keep organizing until it's fucking great!

Minimal edits today. Deleted some files, cleaned up the style again. Chopped off about 100 lines of unused/redundant style code and added some more.
Also fixed some of the pages from last update.

holy shit, this is a big milestone for the website. i finally decided on a format simple enough that i can update frequently but aesthetically pleasing enough where i wouldn't want to vomit while reading. i'm starting to see a glimmer of my vision, and it is very exciting.

this may or may not be related to my physician giving me mood stabilizers. it's a big deal for me. starting to feel more confidence in my projects, which could be placebo but could be the meds working. either way, im working harder on my crafts than I have in a long time. everything feels easier for some reason this week. we'll see how this continues.

next update: adding a back to home button to each story page; button to return to cookie run kingdom story directory;clean up on files to match my VSC workspace; confirming site directory and link paths from pages to home site.

We made it. today i posted version 0.2.2 to neocities... a few times, because some things broke when i submitted the first time. this felt like a big step up, im really happy with how things are coming. a few notes:

inspired by an accessibility statement from another site i follow. my book did reference some accessibility changes as well, and ive been alright wih following them. i might make these blog entries an article instead of div elements. the comic pages would also benefit from this, in terms of readability for e-readers.

i decided early on that i wanted the nav buttons to use the gif image format instead of jpeg or even webp. now i'm reconsidering this. the book i read didnt discuss the webp filetype so i think it is newer, but idk how well tablets and the like render these files. if i remember, ill look into it.

Signoff @ 7:30pm: posting the second update at the same time.

Returned a Sacred Text of Old back to its rightful place at the library: Making a Website: The Missing Manual by Matthew Macdonald. I read the final passages on floating div elements and images, css inheritance, and something about server-side inserts before it went down the book return chute. (by the way, if anybody knows if neocities allows for inserts, please lmk. haven't had any luck finding info on this topic online)

i realized that i only wanted one css file since everything is pretty simple-looking so far. it's a change i am happy to make, as it makes editing much easier. i am finally starting to visualize the end product in my markup, and it is an exciting thing. i would really like to get this update launched by the first of the month (insert audio clip). this weekend seems like a good time to make that happen, so we will see.

Signoff... 6/26 @ 5:55pm: i got scared to post it but then i got over that. i want to buy that book but i know it is time to move on. idk how i will recover

so, I have done a few hours' research and have decided that the details+summary combo works the best for the appearance i want to keep. I considered the button for a second, but found that the dropdown appearance is really what does it for me. I haven't quite figured out the details(lol) on how to best utilize CSS to display text, but im still only working on the alpha so i'm not going to pull out all the stops for this one element. i would like to get fancy with the CSS, but for now that seems a bit far away. gotta keep it to functionality until it's published, at least.
next step is to transcribe some pages and prepare them for upload! would like to have at least one chapter uploaded before the end of Pride.

Signoff @ 4:00pm: did yall hear they confirmed P4R? It's probably going to be trash but I'll stil buy it like the typical SouyoxYuChie fan.

didn't do anything in May, and there's no way im going to create another section for a single entry.

i dropped all of my hobbies for a few weeks because i got a job offer. played rune factory 4 when i wasnt beat from being ND and in public. still was thinking about the site so had to come back

finishing the single page view for the Cr:K log i plan on writing. have to reference my bible to see what im looking for. tomorrow is my day off thankfully. my battery is drained so im not sure how much i'll be up for working on, though. i like reading my textbook. my coworker said it doesn't count as reading, but she just doesn't have experience reading a well written textbook.

it's alright. i'll go back to reading the supplemental sections and reviewing the chapter summaries. yeah i do read the acknowledgements. and i read the dedications.

alright i'm going back to coding goodbye

Signoff @ 10:11pm: having a smoko and watching DashieGames play the remaster Until Dawn, 7 months after the release. I didn't want to give him too many views because that game is pretty bad and racist, but I have to say this is a pretty good remaster. I believe minor changes to the mechanics are included in the term remaster, as opposed to remake. I'm not sure.

today is when the diary page will be live on the site. finally..!

i was juggling the Home page stylesheet, the Diary page stylesheet, and the Cookie Run: Kingdom stylesheet and it all became overwhelming to the point where I did no work on anything at all! typical mental disability moment

im very excited about this but I want to also state how happy i am to finally have enough brain space to work on the Cookie Run pages. The first one i want to post is not the page i have been working on, so i guess i should start on that now.

Signoff @ 7:20pm: the next page will likely be the alpha version of the CR:K episodes landing page. stay tuned in for updates!

finishing the structure for the css file. next step is to use colors and shit to place the shits

had this cool idea to center a div on the home page with clickable images that lead to these pages. i can't put my finger on the source, but its nostalgic to us in a way we'd like to mimic.

we would also like to rename the files to represent the version. in the offchance that there will be many updates, i want to use a name scheme as each updated look appears.

Last thought: hopefully my next diary entry will include a career update..!

finally marking up the diary page! it's exciting, and also irritating in every way.

having a separate section on the front page about recent updates would be useful.