by goodmode Fri 24 Nov 2017, 12:31 am
gotcha!
i will add JD's badge to my affiliates bar as soon as i get back from work - i tried to do it this morning but there's an issue with a mystery "display:none" and i don't have the time this morning to retrace my steps to find out where i put it lmao i am a dummy fixed and added!!
i definitely designed the site with accessibility in mind. too much pale colour hurts my eyes so i opted for dark backgrounds/banners but white-on-black text also hurts my eyes after too long so i had the text boxes white since i knew i'd be staring at it a lot... i kinda like how the balance turned out :^) also small fonts are my biggest hugest pet peeve in web design so i stubbornly kicked my base font up to like 20px LMAO if i ever have to read blocks of shadowed 3px text on another tiny 500x500 site as long as i live it'll be too soon
ANYWAY neocities does have a weird social media-y element to it but it's very ignore-able and the actual hosting site functions about as you'd expect.
here's a screenshot of my "edit site" page for referenceneocities only hosts static sites, so i can't use PHP or databases i don't think? but that's not generally an issue for me because a static site is all i want anyway, and plus i've found workarounds in javascript, which it allows just fine. and the filetypes are limited unless you upgrade to Supporter but 1. that's only $5 a month (and comes with a lot of bells and whistles) and 2. i don't really have any need to host zip files or anything myself.
you can also point a domain name to it if you upgrade to supporter but i'm still thinking it over haha.
anyway the "social media"-ish side of the site is basically just, like - you can click a follow button if you visit someone's neocities account page and you'll get a note on your little dashboard thing when they update their website. you can post statuses too and i mostly just use mine for asking javascript questions because i'm a big baby.
again, that whole side of things is super easy to ignore and just not use, though it's possible you'll get follows or comments from other users on the site - which is due to the way the directory is set up, so that you can organise by "most views" or "last updated" or whatever. i'm absolutely not complaining at all because it means i can
find things like this