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My little Neocities webbed site is beginning to look nice enough to pass as functional. Hooray! As is tradition I opened it because I wanted to make a new page with actual stuff on it, and then instead I started a new landing/link list page and then fucked off to work on the CSS for five hours.

The good news is most things I wanted to sit on a backdrop now sit on a backdrop. I also shuffled the linkstickles into order, got them a fancy background, and massaged the Light Mode background tile to be more visible on screens/devices which flatten white-ish colors into all white. (Well, I think/hope. I've only got so many devices to test on.)

The CSS crime ended up being the thing I did not expect: page footers are made of sin and misery!! Conceptually they've been a staple for decades now and if you want a horrendous screen-wasting "always on top" mobile-style one that's easy. But if you want one that glues itself to the bottom of a page after all the other page content even if the page content is less than a full page, 1. go fuck yourself 2. get out a CSS calc(). )

I think I got it to work though. Eventually. At least it works when I resize my own screens! And all it took was moving some body{} properties into a new mandatory div I'll have to put on every page, yaaaaay.

Behold thusly here: https://wobblegong.neocities.org/burrow

wobblegong: Stylized blue fish with spots and stripes. (Default)

Remembered I can manually set font size in em units and decided that baking big letters into a particular paragraph was more satisfying than using a header.

Got annoyed this resulted in less extra space after than using a header, so kludged that in with an aggressively improper use of margin:bottom.

Kludged an entire paragraph into italics with font-style:italic.

Got confused and look up what the difference between italic and oblique is. Answer: kinda nothing but sometimes something, depending.

Didn't understand why font-style:bold didn't do anything. Found out that font-weight is its own thing.

Chose violence. Pranced over to Cohost Markdown Plus to see if I could figure out how to make text spin in a circle.

Pasted the results into the Circlejourney editor to discover they didn't move. Made one bad attempt at troubleshooting. Admitted this was so many tiers beyond me to troubleshoot that I should just give up and gave up.

Had a new bad idea and backtracked to the Mozilla helpdoc for transform: rotate.

Unlocked upside-down text.

:)

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