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Hello friends,
I figured it'd be fun to document the development of the main website. I'm used to creating documentation at work now, so it feels natural to do it in my personal projects too.
SCM Music Player
If you've been to the main page recently, you might've heard new tunes if your browser has autoplay enabled for my website.
Instead of going to bed at a decent time last night, I stayed up until 2 AM adding a new music player and curating a playlist from my YouTube likes. Yes, I was late for work again this morning, but my boss isn't upset at me because I do decent work so it was worth it.
The Pros of SCM Music Player is that I don't have to store files on my website anymore. My current hosting option only allows about 20GB of storage and I can see it filling up fast if I ever decide to upload videos or really high res images. If there's a way to use my own files I'll consider it.
One of the main reasons for the change is that the original audio I had on the site was too loud and I felt kind of limited. With SCM, I can set the volume and have the playlist shuffle on default. Also, it's persistent so the music player will keep playing the song you're listening to even if you click on new page. This doesn't work with the blog, though. I'll have to make the blog open in a new tab.
I don't think I'll document the changes to the playlist because those can change on a whim. For now, enjoy the tracks that I've added. The playlist is a mix of my personal taste. I actually rarely ever get a chance to share music with friends, so I'll kinda happy about this new addition to the site.
Plans
- Design
- I'd like to come up with a mockup of a design for the website this weekend. The current layout is more or less a funny thing I put together in 2 hours. If I have to go back to a plain black and white page for a while, I'll do it.
- Pages
- On the main page there are empty links to other pages. It's supposed to be my own spin on the different boards on 4chan, but I forgot what topics the letters represent (lol). I made a note somewhere, but I can't find it. Oh well.
- Guestbook/Chat
- I'm still unsure about this one, but I think it might be interesting to consider. The website actually has a dedicated forum that I added as a fun test of the features included in my hosting plan. There's not much use for it at the moment considering that traffic is very low on the website and I'm not trying to build a community.
I think that's all the updates for now. I need to organize the website's storage a little better and make sure images for the blog stay in their proper folders. Other than that, there's not much maintenance needed.
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I worked on the website for most of the day on Saturday.
It doesn't seem like a lot has changed, I know. A lot of my time spent was trying to reverse-engineer some cool stuff people have made with CSS/HTML, like glitch effects on images when you hover over them. Unfortunately, I had a really hard time figuring all of that out and it wasn't implemented at all. I guess the silver lining is that I have a better idea of what I want the final look to be?
Part of me wants to keep it this way, like very amateur-ish, but another part of me also wants to make it really cool.
Anyway, no actual notes for now. I will talk about some of the issues and new goals for the website though.
SCM Music Player is a widget that I talked about in the last post that works really well on the home page. What I liked about it is that it can follow you to different pages on the main site. The downside is that there seems to be a conflict if you click on the blog link on the website. Your browser will give you a warning about not letting you go to a website that's embedded. If you open the blog in a new tab, it works fine though.
I think what's going on is that SCM is trying to follow you to the blog component of the website which is built differently. I'm going to see if there's another option for music because the warning might discourage people from checking out the blog.
Aside from that, there have been some graphical changes. Again, I'm still messing around with stuff so the appearance is going to change a lot. I'm not even sure if this is worth a "minor" version update.
I did a drawing of the website on a notebook and I think I'm going to aim for something more on the tech side in terms of aesthetic. Like, maybe a HUD or something like that? My current goal for navigation on the main page is to have images that appear grayscale until you hover over them. I actually have this completed in Visual Studio, but haven't uploaded it to my host. On top of that, I want to make it glitchy or have static like a video feed and I'm wondering if I'm better off editing that in than trying to code it.
Anyway, that's really it for now.