I think I want to make a web page. After all, SDF does also provide web
hosting, in addition to this Gopherspace. Of course, HTML is a damn sight
more complicated than a gophermap --- this is, after all, just a text
file.
No matter what, my web page will certainly have that "Babby's First
Website" look to it. God knows I don't really remember any HTML, and I
didn't know CSS back in like 2001. Plus, a quick look through W3C's
tutorials indicates that a lot of the "styling" HTML from ages ago isn't
valid in HTML5. So CSS is clearly the way to go.
Hell, it'll look better than the web page I ginned up in Law School.
Center aligned, with some images and a quick text walk-through on
numbering pages in Word. Useful information --- these days, it would
likely be found in a 20-minute Youtube video. God forbid we express
information with the written word, I guess. Instead, we need to make a
video for something! Then again, in terms of simple, user created
content, a video is far easier to make and share. There aren't Geocities
and Angelfires anymore. Posting a textual guide or how-to on Pastebin is
very obviously not what it was intended for. In theory, you could use
Tumblr and just write, but something about that seems off (and also
somewhat cumbersome to navigate). So I suppose I understand, but I
certainly don't like it.
Not to say that I'm writing a website to provide guidance or how-tos: I
don't possess any special knowledge to impart. Hell, I'm really just
going to do it because I want to. Also, because even just a tumblr theme
is full of convoluted code that's well beyond me. But building a site
from the ground up feels like a natural way to learn what the hell I'm
doing. And while it isn't a /proper/ way to learn, learning how to build
a site by looking up what I want to do is still a valid way. It is rather
restrictive, though. The obviously foreseeable drawback is the gaps in my
knowledge due to things I didn't want or need to know to achieve my
immediate purpose.
Well, we'll see how it works. I'll also need to figure out how to upload
stuff to my SDF space, I guess. First, I'll worry about ginning up a
sitemap, backbone CSS, and testing it locally. Thank god for
TextWrangler, I guess. It was that or I guess an ancient copy of BBEdit.
Hell, I'd be doing that if I had my G4 set up. Sadly, the only desktop
computer I have handy and (relatively) ready-to-go is an early G3 iMac.
350 furious megahertz of processing capability! . . . It doesn't hold a
candle to my G4 Cube and 1.5GB of RAM. That thing in OS9 is pretty
beastly, relatively speaking.
Well, time to get to reading and typing and plotting, I suppose!
