alaterdate | Sticky Ideas (Reply)

So, I only planned to code the layout of my new main page style for this month, but I've gotten so into working on my website since I started. It's the single thing that's been dominating my free time. Thinking about my website, reading about websites, searching for cool websites, studying websites. I dreamt about coding my website the other night!

There's something interesting about being obsessed with one or two hobbies each month. And definitely a window into how my mind operates. Last month it was crochet and reading, and I did tons of that (to the detriment of other things I had on my list?). Now it's website time. (I'll have to factor this into my goals next month lol.)

I've made great progress so far on my website even if the going has been rough in some parts lol. Been doing a bit of complaining on tumblr lmao. The emotional disparity between the taxing annoyance of coding and the elation of seeing the finished page is criminal. It's downright abusive, toxic! Lol.

I do not like coding for mobile phone screens! I loathe the part where I go in and check the responsiveness, but am ecstatic when it actually works and looks the exact way I want it to on those little screens. There is a sacrifice to form over function for me because of it. I would not be so frustrated with flex boxes if I wasn't overthinking about the arrangement for mobile screens. It can certainly look good, but I hate having to compromise my design for that responsiveness. I put things a certain way and then I find that I just cannot get it to then look good to my standards on mobile. It could be a fault with my experience and skill level, but it's still annoying. I'm thinking about scroll boxes (don't like them on mobile), horizontal scrolling (that tiny little horizontal scroll you can get on pages? Hate it!), collapsible boxes, spacing so that you can easily click things, navigation (I LOVE sticky nav, but on mobile it's like "no"), flex direction (spreads are ruined. How do I want to order information?), links to content inside the page. Okay, I don't want hamburger menus, I just don't. I don't want to design my site for phones, but I do want it to work on phones. I'm most likely being very picky, but I want things the way I like them. And I just wanted to do a little venting about it lol.

So far I've got the main page's basic CSS frame done. I'm just tweaking colors and stylistic design (border radius 10px or 15px 🤔 etc.). I went in and pretty much recoded pages I told myself I wasn't going to recode. There was some egregious stuff in there! One page's entire navigation link set was just in a single list item tag. ???. I also did a lot more code commenting and marked delineation so I know easily where sections begin and why something is where it is. Went in and prettied up some pages too. You can never be too fussed with formatting.
Right now I'm designing a layout for my book reviews, I decided I am going to put them up on my website. I might even make them their own separate website because some irl people expressed interest in them and I am not linking them anywhere near my fanfic. I spent pretty much all day working on the layout and it took a long time, but it was FUN and I'm pretty happy with how the results are shaping up.