Tribulations

I did not know anything about HTML and CSS. And after hours of studying I can confidently say that now I know 0.0000000001% of HTML and CSS.
Okay, saying hours of studying is a bit overdramatic. I just spent an hour or two after work, like, every other day. Still!

Here, you can see how it started. I followed some tutorials on W3Schools and HTML for People.

Oh also, the concept of building my own website and being a part of the 'indieweb' took a long time to foster in my head. But it was only natural. There is this growing disdain in me. Towards "social" media, towards AI, towards giant internet corporations. Algorithms to maximize engagement. Subscription plans and dark patterns. I don't want any of this.

But then I discovered the indieweb. I discovered neocities. And it was... it made me smile.
I found myself browsing random websites. Some sites were serious. On some sites my cursor had a trail of ✨sparkles✨. Some sites had blogs discussing serious things like global warming. Some sites were filled with cat pictures and art.

You know, it was eye opening. It felt as if the creator of that website was sitting next to me. As if we were having a conversation. I could get a sense of their personality. In direct contrast to how it feels browsing social media. Sooo I wanted to join ^^

So anyway! Sorry, too much yapping. Here are my Trials and Tribulations:

From this point on, this is going to be a changelog.

2026-06-07 -- Created a custom 404 page ^^
2026-06-09 -- Now you can send me an email! // I know I'm putting the cart before the horse again. I should give you a reason to reach out first. Maybe write some posts right? But I just couldn't wait. I always wanted to have a custom email :)))
2026-06-12 -- I tried to make a vertical navbar.
2026-06-13 -- I learned how to set a maximum width to the whole thing. Things look better now if you're using an ultrawide monitor.

This whole website thing is slowly growing on me. Maybe I should study CSS exclusively for a while.

2026-06-18 -- Gradients!
2026-06-21 -- A complete CSS rewrite! It took me a few hours but now it is much cleaner. Also, the navbar now looks like how it's supposed to on mobile. I still hate CSS though. I especially hate flex. Oh well.
2026-06-21 (again)-- First blog post! ^^
2026-06-30 -- A microblog prototype! (oh and learned how to make a footer at the bottom of the page)
2026-07-04 -- The microblog is live ^^
2026-07-05 -- Learned that I had to add a margin: 0; to the body in the CSS so that the footer fits in the page properly.
2026-07-11 -- Learned about flex-wrap. The navbar uses flex-wrap: wrap; now, so that it looks better on mobile. I still don't like how it looks, but I don't know how to make it look the way I want it to. Saw some people mention something called a position attribute. I might be able to use that to make the logo on the right placed correctly on mobile, if I am to add more links to the navbar in the future. I don't know when I will have the time to study it though. I don't know when I will have the time to do most things. Oh well.
2026-07-21 -- Changed the colors around eeeever so slightly. It feels a little bit livelier now ^^ //note to self: I should make this page in reverse chronological order. And also, this Tribulations page looks AWFUL. There must be a better way of presenting this.