Posted: Oct 13th, 2024

Wait.. What happened?!

For those who were here before, you may have noticed that things have changed... in fact, a lot has changed. I re-built the entire site from the ground up after realizating I was spending way too much time making the site itself (and collecting content for it) and not actually posting.. or more directly, scope creep.

My original intention was to create a centralized location where I could post my 'blog entries' outside of the Discord text channels I was maintaining, but then tried to expand that by including 'everything' that I've ever uploaded to the internet. A cool goal, but one that was taking way too much time away from other important tasks...

So, earlier this week, I decided to scrap the old site and start over, ripping out all the unnecessary stuff and bringing it back to the basics; a simple activity log.

So what changed?

Everything... but some of the bigger highlights

• Removed the dedicated Landing (Home) and Gallery sections.
• Removed the iframes.
• Index now auto redirects to the newest log entry.
• Updated the Color/Theme Selection System.
  • Expanded it to include 4 new colors (for a total of 12): Chartreuse, Spring Green, Azure and Rose.
  • Can now directly control the Tertiary (3rd) color, allowing for more custom 3 color combos.
  • Better setup the layout to make almost all colors readable/usable no matter the mode (still tweaking this).
  • Simplified the javascript.
• Made the 404 page blank again.. may eventually re-visit this.
• ..and many more

One of the major changes was the shift from a modular design (so multiple pages, compiled together via iframes) to a more 'all inclusive' design (everything on a singlular page). The idea here is that the website will update as I post updates. So for example, if I decide to add a new menu item or change what's in the footer, the changes will only apply to new posts going forward. In this way, each post will be like a self contained time capsule of what the website looked liked / had to offer when a post was posted... This is somewhat of an experiment on my part, as I'm curious how this plays out in the long term.

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Conclusion

So anyway, that's it for now. Some features are still broken as of this writing (such as the menu above not really doing anything because this is the only post currently), but I plan to add those features as we move forward. Also, features from the old site may make a return (such as the galleries) in the future, but I didn't want to force myself to set that stuff up right now. As I mentioned, this is somewhat of an experiement, so you'll be seeing things update over the course of me posting updates.