Page Design Inspo
- Templaterr re-taught me the CSS basics, got me into the habit of setting global colors in my stylesheets for easier customization, and provided the foundation for my first base stylesheet (now retired) with their felinium theme
- EGGRAMEN provided the base for my hub stylesheets with their simple theme, which also showed me a thing or two about mobile compatibility
- Cyberspace Girlfriend popped off on her entire site design in general but especially so with her shows shrine, which directly inspired my trackers.css stylesheet
- 98.css forms the basis of my changelog stylesheet, got me into the idea of custom fonts, and opened my eyes to a bunch of different HTML elements that I had never used before
- Lulu in Cyberspace made a basic page template that I used to create the second iteration of my base stylesheet, which is currently being used on my home and about pages
- Kumaclick's style.css gave me direct inspo for my simple.css stylesheet, which was the first stylesheet that I created
from scratch,
i.e. without referencing anything at the time… in reality, the code base is probably incredibly similar if not the same because I studied their source code for so long that I practically memorized it
Code Crudités
When possible, I'll try to tease out which code that I've used most often and/or in variety of contexts across the site, but I expect this section to be more of a general resources
list. Please check individual credit pages or stylesheet source code for specific attributions if you really want to know deets.
- W3Schools for learning the very basics and fundamental rules of markup before you start making creative decisions to ignore their more boring ass advice
- Responsive sidebar (from retired base.css stylesheet)
- Responsive divs (used on this page!)
- You Don't Need JavaScript for those that believe in CSS supremacy
- CSS-Tricks is a good YDNJ companion but I usually only find myself there after a Google tbh
- How to Create Footnotes in HTML by Compendiums/Karl Winegardner
- Dannarchy's Native Neocities Hit-Counter, although I will warn it does require JavaScript (boo hoo hoo) [Sadness link for copy & paste ease]
Images & Graphics
- HTML Symbols, Entities and ASCII Character Codes
- textfac.es (unicode faces and emoticons)
- Win98 Icons by Alex Meub (favicons)
- Lulu in Cyberspace (backgrounds and buttons)
- CyberRot (buttons)
- Glitter-Graphics.com (pixel art and other yesterweb shizz)
- Fun-Lover.com (more pixel art and other yesterweb shizz)
Custom Web Fonts
- Velvetyne Type Foundry, libre + open source type foundry
- Font Squirrel Webfont Generator, create webfonts and stylesheet samples
Honorable mention to MySpace and Tumblr templates, plus anyone who contributed to all the random forums, blogs, and sites that I've stumbled upon from Google searches over the years. I'd thank the For Dummies books that I checked out from the library when I got started on Neocities, but tbh they kind of caused me to have an existential crisis after I learned just how outdated my markup actually was. I was still primarily using XHTML, y'all…