Fandom Snowflake Challenge #12

[snowynight]

Challenge #12
Tell Us about a Personal Win.

Share whatever wins you’re comfortable with telling us all about. Found a new fandom that makes you light up? One of your creations has earned more kudos than you dreamed of? Wins from life, new job, new school, new adventure? You have a couple of wins you want to celebrate, we want to hear about them. Share a win or two so we can cheer for you.

Last year, I tried to build a personal website to backup my fanwork. I learnt HTML in 2000s, so I had to catch up with development in web design. For example, I had to learn DIV+CSS instead of HTML table for website layout. The frame tag was also no longer supported in the current HTML standard.

By looking up HTML5 & CSS web tutorials, I learnt how to build a simple website that aimed to be accessible & mobile responsive. I now knew how to use CSS to add a navigation bar and foot bar for the whole web site.

Now the only thing missing is for me to upload everything upthere. But it's still a personal achievement.

Comments

[queenslayerbee]

Congrats! I know veeeery little about coding / html / etc. and getting started always looks daunting, so that makes this achievement all the more impressive to me.

[snowynight]

Thank you!

I follow the online CSS and HTML tutorial on this website and find them helpful:

https://www.w3schools.com/

[queenslayerbee]

Oh, thanks for that link!

[kitarella_imagines]

That sounds amazing! I would have absolutely no clue where to even start with websites, so anyone who can do anything technical like that astounds me.😊

[snowynight]

Thank you!

It's not hard to write a simple web page with text and image. If you're interested in tutorials, I use the html and CSS resources on this website:

https://www.w3schools.com/

[kitarella_imagines]

You’re welcome 😊

[turps]

I'm so impressed by your answer. That is such a good thing to learn, congratulations!

[snowynight]

Thank you!

[cornerofmadness]

that's fantastic

[snowynight]

Thank you!

[pattrose]

This website is awesome. It’s a beautiful design. I understand very little with html.

[snowynight]

Thank you!

[silveradept]

Congratulations! Learning and applying things like HTML + CSS is absolutely a win, and now you have a place that looks and operates just the way you would like it to. (And that you can change, if you so desire.)

[snowynight]

Thank you!

I have a lot of fun tinkering with the site. It's great to change things just because I can.

[sugareey]

I love this so much (as a person who learned to code because of Neopets and Geocities)! It's crazy how web design has changed over the years, but it certainly makes things a lot easier when there are more ways to make a thing work. And tools to double-check that work.

Coding is a lot harder than people think it is, so kudos to you for brushing up on that again!

[snowynight]

Thank you!

I learnt to code because of Neopets and Geocities too. Nowadays It's easier to find coding resources. There are also more checker tools too. It's better than before.

[linky]

Taking the time to learn how to code your own site and then getting it up is a massive win!

[snowynight]

Thank you!

[tsuki_no_bara]

aw, i liked frames. to be fair i was making personal web sites with them probably twenty years ago so i'm not super surprised they're not supported any more. in any case, go you for brushing up on your skills and building your own site!

[snowynight]

Thank you!

I first made my personal GeoCities website with frame too. It was a surprise to me that it was considered outdated, bad for mobile and screen readers. Things really changed a lot.

[apachefirecat]

Way to go!!!! I've always wanted to build a site to collect all my fic -- but with DECADES of writing and very little time, it just seems rather impossible... I'd also be in the same boat as you with the old HTML. :) Again, congratulations -- I GET what a HUGE WIN! this is!!

[snowynight]

Thank you!

I totally get how hard it's to back up all the writing. I hope you will have time for it in the future!

Yay!

[ysabetwordsmith]

It's good to see people building things themselves.

Re: Yay!

[snowynight]

Thank you!

[sarajayechan]

Congrats! Good on you for looking up those tutorials, I should consider that myself.

[snowynight]

Thank you!

[svgurl]

Teaching yourself to code and build a website is really impressive! Go you! :D

[snowynight]

Thank you!

[zimena]

Hi. I came here via the Snowflake challenge. I just wanted to say congratulations - this is such a beautiful personal win! Learning new things is such a great feeling, and being able to apply the new knowledge to make what you wanted even better. Go, you!

[snowynight]

Thank you!

[nonesensed]

Making a personal online backup of one's fics is a smart idea and huzzah for you learning all that coding! Website-making sure has gotten waaaay more complex since I learned the basics back in the early 2000s 😅 Best of luck with the uploading!