more pluggin away at portfolio pages. now i have something I can actually link.
These are the parts of the page I'm most proud of but also least satisfied with. I want the title for each page to be inline with the home button, but I'm struggling to find a good method of doing that online. I'm sure theres a clean and easy way to do an effective header like this that I'm just missing.
Following this are my experiments with a 'modul-like' format for birds. Intially I was just going to display them in one big old line, which for this project I wouldn't be opposed to, since I'm very satisfied by it. But for other projects with additional images... I'm not so sure. Especially since birds is all the same size. What of differently sized images? Might have to adjust their width and height in either the img src itself, outside of styling or through manually editing them, which I dont want to do.
I find it hard to grapple with this pages imperfections, but at my skill level I just have to accept it for now and keep on trying. Nothing else to it!
Finally found the motivation to crack open the neocities dashboard. Today I continued to pick away at the test portfolio page, which will serve as a template for portfolio pages going forward.
One thing I succeeded at was making a responsive grid. W3school's tutorial was helpful, and it should make the portfolio pages more 'mobile friendly'. Though these grids I'm also able to use paragraphs within those divs to add responsive medium lines. I also added a hover over text to the homebuttons of the portfolio navigation page and the template. For cuteness :].
I attempted adding a lightbox thing via code copy pasted from w3schools but got quickly overwhelmed and confused. Oh how my 6 months of javascript knowlege quickly left me. My ultimate goal with a lightbox feature would, of course, be an image popping out for people to like. see details and zoom in or whatever, but also store extra images for that thing. Say I have my acorn weevil sculpture on a page. I would like to be able to click on it to see the initial image in more detail, but also click slideshow style to see additional angles of the sculpture. Or for instance if I have concept art for the piece, or exhbition photos, or alternate displays. These are all things I'd like to achieve if I do a lightbox. Since javascript seems out of my skillset I might pay someone to put that aspect of the website together for me. Or look into Lightbox2, which my friend Mark sent me while talking on discord about the website.
My ambitious goal for the end of the year is to have the portfolio nav page tidied, functional, and customized with site-congruent elements, as well as finish the 'Risograph' page, to make it easier to convince riso presses to let me use their facilities with my ample *~experience~*.
Beginning of changelog, unsure how often I'll update this. I just finished the CV/bio section of my website, still have the portfolio to do before I consider this website "application worthy". Today I learned the secret codes for adding spacing to sentences. Found here: https://hea-www.harvard.edu/~fine/Tech/html-sentences.html . I still continue to feel out of my depth when it comes to HTML and CSS. Like yeah I know more then the average person, but I'm still leagues below wizard status. Someday I will become fluent in HTML and CSS and even... javascript. My textboxes and links will be *~diagonal~* and my divs... oh baby my divs.