#Features of Static Websites

[companyindianwebsite]

In the vast landscape of web development, static websites stand as a foundational and essential element. #Static#websites have their own set of #features that make them a popular choice for various purposes.

https://www.indianwebsitecompany.com/static-website-design

[komaedalovemail]

komaedas have you tried straw.page?

(i hope you don't mind if i make a big ollllle webdev post off this!)

i have never tried straw.page but it looks similar to carrd and other WYSIWYG editors (which is unappealing to me, since i know html/css/js and want full control of the code. and can't hide secrets in code comments.....)

my 2 cents as a web designer is if you're looking to learn web design or host long-term web projects, WYSIWYG editors suck doodooass. you don't learn the basics of coding, someone else does it for you! however, if you're just looking to quickly host images, links to your other social medias, write text entries/blogposts, WYSIWYG can be nice.

toyhouse, tumblr, deviantart, a lot of sites implement WYSIWYG for their post editors as well, but then you can run into issues relying on their main site features for things like the search system, user profiles, comments, etc. but it can be nice to just login to your account and host your information in one place, especially on a platform that's geared towards that specific type of information. (toyhouse is a better example of this, since you have a lot of control of how your profile/character pages look, even without a premium account) carrd can be nice if you just want to say "here's where to find me on other sites," for example. but sometimes you want a full website!

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neocities hosting

currently, i host my website on neocities, but i would say the web2.0sphere has sucked some doodooass right now and i'm fiending for something better than it. it's a static web host, e.g. you can upload text, image, audio, and client-side (mostly javascript and css) files, and html pages. for the past few years, neocities' servers have gotten slower and slower and had total blackouts with no notices about why it's happening... and i'm realizing they host a lot of crypto sites that have crypto miners that eat up a ton of server resources. i don't think they're doing anything to limit bot or crypto mining activity and regular users are taking a hit.

↑ page 1 on neocitie's most viewed sites we find this site. this site has a crypto miner on it, just so i'm not making up claims without proof here. there is also a very populated #crypto tag on neocities (has porn in it tho so be warned...).

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dynamic/server-side web hosting

$5/mo for neocities premium seems cheap until you realize... The Beautiful World of Server-side Web Hosting!

client-side AKA static web hosting (neocities, geocities) means you can upload images, audio, video, and other files that do not interact with the server where the website is hosted, like html, css, and javascript. the user reading your webpage does not send any information to the server like a username, password, their favourite colour, etc. - any variables handled by scripts like javascript will be forgotten when the page is reloaded, since there's no way to save it to the web server. server-side AKA dynamic web hosting can utilize any script like php, ruby, python, or perl, and has an SQL database to store variables like the aforementioned that would have previously had nowhere to be stored.

there are many places in 2024 you can host a website for free, including: infinityfree (i use this for my test websites :B has tons of subdomains to choose from) [unlimited sites, 5gb/unlimited storage], googiehost [1 site, 1gb/1mb storage], freehostia [5 sites/1 database, 250mb storage], freehosting [1 site, 10gb/unlimited storage]

if you want more features like extra websites, more storage, a dedicated e-mail, PHP configuration, etc, you can look into paying a lil shmoney for web hosting: there's hostinger (this is my promocode so i get. shmoney. if you. um. 🗿🗿🗿) [$2.40-3.99+/mo, 100 sites/300 databases, 100gb storage, 25k visits/mo], a2hosting [$1.75-12.99+/mo, 1 site/5 databases, 10gb/1gb storage], and cloudways [$10-11+/mo, 25gb/1gb]. i'm seeing people say to stay away from godaddy and hostgator. before you purchase a plan, look up coupons, too! (i usually renew my plan ahead of time when hostinger runs good sales/coupons LOL)

here's a big webhost comparison chart from r/HostingHostel circa jan 2024.

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domain names

most of the free website hosts will give you a subdomain like yoursite.has-a-cool-website-69.org, and usually paid hosts expect you to bring your own domain name. i got my domain on namecheap (enticing registration prices, mid renewal prices), there's also porkbun, cloudflare, namesilo, and amazon route 53. don't use godaddy or squarespace. make sure you double check the promo price vs. the actual renewal price and don't get charged $120/mo when you thought it was $4/mo during a promo, certain TLDs (endings like .com, .org, .cool, etc) cost more and have a base price (.car costs $2,300?!?). look up coupons before you purchase these as well!

namecheap and porkbun offer something called "handshake domains," DO NOT BUY THESE. 🤣🤣🤣 they're usually cheaper and offer more appealing, hyper-specific endings like .iloveu, .8888, .catgirl, .dookie, .gethigh, .♥, .❣, and .✟. I WISH WE COULD HAVE THEM but they're literally unusable. in order to access a page using a handshake domain, you need to download a handshake resolver. every time the user connects to the site, they have to provide proof of work. aside from it being incredibly wasteful, you LITERALLY cannot just type in the URL and go to your own website, you need to download a handshake resolver, meaning everyday internet users cannot access your site.

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hosting a static site on a dynamic webhost

you can host a static (html/css/js only) website on a dynamic web server without having to learn PHP and SQL! if you're coming from somewhere like neocities, the only thing you need to do is configure your website's properties. your hosting service will probably have tutorials to follow for this, and possibly already did some steps for you. you need to point the nameserver to your domain, install an SSL certificate, and connect to your site using FTP for future uploads. FTP is a faster, alternative way to upload files to your website instead of your webhost's file upload system; programs like WinSCP or FileZilla can upload using FTP for you.

if you wanna learn PHP and SQL and really get into webdev, i wrote a forum post at Mysidia Adoptables here, tho it's sorted geared at the mysidia script library itself (Mysidia Adoptables is a free virtual pet site script, tiny community. go check it out!)

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file storage & backups

a problem i have run into a lot in my past like, 20 years of internet usage (/OLD) is that a site that is free, has a small community, and maybe sounds too good/cheap to be true, has a higher chance of going under. sometimes this happens to bigger sites like tinypic, photobucket, and imageshack, but for every site like that, there's like a million of baby sites that died with people's files. host your files/websites on a well-known site, or at least back it up and expect it to go under!

i used to host my images on something called "imgjoe" during the tinypic/imageshack era, it lasted about 3 years, and i lost everything hosted on there. more recently, komaedalovemail had its webpages hosted here on tumblr, and tumblr changed its UI so custom pages don't allow javascript, which prevented any new pages from being edited/added. another test site i made a couple years ago on hostinger's site called 000webhost went under/became a part of hostinger's paid-only plans, so i had to look very quickly for a new host or i'd lose my test site.

if you're broke like me, looking into physical file storage can be expensive. anything related to computers has gone through baaaaad inflation due to crypto, which again, I Freaquing Hate, and is killing mother nature. STOP MINING CRYPTO this is gonna be you in 1 year

...um i digress. ANYWAYS, you can archive your websites, which'll save your static assets on The Internet Archive (which could use your lovely donations right now btw), and/or archive.today (also taking donations). having a webhost service with lots of storage and automatic backups can be nice if you're worried about file loss or corruption, or just don't have enough storage on your computer at home!

if you're buying physical storage, be it hard drive, solid state drive, USB stick, whatever... get an actual brand like Western Digital or Seagate and don't fall for those cheap ones on Amazon that claim to have 8,000GB for $40 or you're going to spend 13 days in windows command prompt trying to repair the disk and thenthe power is gong to go out in your shit ass neighvborhood and you have to run it tagain and then Windows 10 tryes to update and itresets the /chkdsk agin while you're awayfrom town nad you're goig to start crytypting and kts just hnot going tot br the same aever agai nikt jus not ggiog to be the saeme

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further webhosting options

there are other Advanced options when it comes to web hosting. for example, you can physically own and run your own webserver, e.g. with a computer or a raspberry pi. r/selfhosted might be a good place if you're looking into that!

if you know or are learning PHP, SQL, and other server-side languages, you can host a webserver on your computer using something like XAMPP (Apache, MariaDB, PHP, & Perl) with minimal storage space (the latest version takes up a little under 1gb on my computer rn). then, you can test your website without needing an internet connection or worrying about finding a hosting plan that can support your project until you've set everything up!

there's also many PHP frameworks which can be useful for beginners and wizards of the web alike. WordPress is one which you're no doubt familiar with for creating blog posts, and Bluehost is a decent hosting service tailored to WordPress specifically. there's full frameworks like Laravel, CakePHP, and Slim, which will usually handle security, user authentication, web routing, and database interactions that you can build off of. Laravel in particular is noob-friendly imo, and is used by a large populace, and it has many tutorials, example sites built with it, and specific app frameworks.

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addendum: storing sensitive data

if you decide to host a server-side website, you'll most likely have a login/out functionality (user authentication), and have to store things like usernames, passwords, and e-mails. PLEASE don't launch your website until you're sure your site security is up to snuff!

when trying to check if your data is hackable... It's time to get into the Mind of a Hacker. OWASP has some good cheat sheets that list some of the bigger security concerns and how to mitigate them as a site owner, and you can look up filtered security issues on the Exploit Database.

this is kind of its own topic if you're coding a PHP website from scratch; most frameworks securely store sensitive data for you already. if you're writing your own PHP framework, refer to php.net's security articles and this guide on writing an .htaccess file.

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but. i be on that phone... :(

ok one thing i see about straw.page that seems nice is that it advertises the ability to make webpages from your phone. WYSIWYG editors in general are more capable of this. i only started looking into this yesterday, but there ARE source code editor apps for mobile devices! if you have a webhosting plan, you can download/upload assets/code from your phone and whatnot and code on the go. i downloaded Runecode for iphone. it might suck ass to keep typing those brackets.... we'll see..... but sometimes you're stuck in the car and you're like damn i wanna code my site GRRRR I WANNA CODE MY SITE!!!

↑ code written in Runecode, then uploaded to Hostinger. Runecode didn't tell me i forgot a semicolon but Hostinger did... i guess you can code from your webhost's file uploader on mobile but i don't trust them since they tend not to autosave or prompt you before closing, and if the wifi dies idk what happens to your code.

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ANYWAYS! HAPPY WEBSITE BUILDING~! HOPE THIS HELPS~!~!~!

-Mod 12 @eeyes

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Writing Notes: Glitch Art

Glitch Art - a type of media art where video and image files are already or intentionally corrupted to include glitches, creating a stylized viewing experience. What may look like an imperfection is the end goal and a result of the visual artist’s pixel sorting.

The glitch aesthetic includes:

elongated images,

pixelization,

color degradation, and

double exposure.

How to Create Glitch Art

Consider the following ways to create this unique form of visual art:

Digitally engineer glitches. Video editing software or apps can let you safely play with your hardware without damaging it. You can play with databending in video files in a photo or video editor and add in manufactured, intentional glitches.

Use magnets on screens. You can also play a video on a screen and employ a heavy-duty magnet, holding it close to the front to warp the pixels on the screen. Note that this has the potential to have long-lasting effects on the quality of your screen, so use this tactic wisely.

Work with broken devices. Damaged devices can yield the glitches that glitch artists seek in their media. Busted but still usable DVD and VHS players can warp the presentation of the video.

Forms of Glitch Art

Since glitch art is often not static, it takes forms outside of still .jpegs or .jpgs. Some forms include:

Glitch music: Glitch music involves the playing of distorted records, CDs, cassettes, or sound files that feature glitches, which may include skips or missing moments of music.

Glitch videos: Glitch videos are the most common type of glitch art, and you can create them by damaging e-files or hard media such as DVDs or video tapes. Artists can also warp videos by toying with a VHS or using magnets to distort pixels on the screen.

Glitch websites: These websites with errors coded within can make for more interactive pieces. Glitches spread throughout the website enhance the user experience and operate as a form of art.

A Brief History of Glitch Art

In technology, a digital glitch refers to a malfunction, often in video games or software development.

Intentional glitches: As technology evolved, artists harnessed the creative opportunities glitches presented and began deliberately incorporating them into various formats in the 1970s, popularizing an intentional glitch aesthetic. The Cubist movement influenced many glitch artists.

JODI: In 1994, Joan Heemskerk and Dirk Paesmans started the highly generative art collective JODI, which purposefully coded errors into website pages to display underlying error messages. The movement weny by the name “net.art.”

Global conventions: The glitch moment gained traction in the 2000s. The tech-art collective Motherboard hosted an international symposium for this new media style in 2002 in Oslo, Norway. In 2010, Nick Briz, Evan Meaney, Rosa Menkman, and Jon Satrom led the GLI.TC/H convention in Chicago with tutorials, performances, and screenings.

GIFs: Over the years, conventions have taken place in Minnesota, Croatia, and Iran, showing how popular the art form has become. Today, GIFS (.gifs), in many ways, echo some of the elements of early glitch art, where a single file repeats its media in a cyclical pattern.

Artists can use digital or analog modifications to create this type of modern art.

To produce glitch videos, artists distort pixels by placing large magnets near the screen or artificially create glitches in Photoshop.

Famous glitch artists include Len Lye, Daniel Temkin, Nam June Paik, and Rosa Menkman.

Source ⚜ More: Notes & References ⚜ Writing Resources PDFs

[milkmejae]

Koldkill— p.sh

sypnosis: when boredom leads you to a mysterious online encounter, you meet a cryptic stranger. as the lines between virtual and reality blur, you discover his real, dark identity.

genre: romance (?), suspense

pairing: cyber!p.sh x female!reader

word count: 0.8k

warnings: mentions of obsession, stalking, hacking (?)

playlist: Лёд - WENARO, LXNER

a/n: hi again, i present to you a drabble from my stupid mind, man... i don't even know what am i writing atp. hope u like it, mwa! not proofread

It all started with boredom. Not the casual, “I have nothing to do” kind of boredom, but the soul-crushing, existential kind. You already scrolled through every social media feed, reorganized your desktop folders, and even considered learning to crochet before giving up and diving into the shadiest corners of the internet.

That’s when you stumbled across it: a sketchy flash game website with a gaudy black and neon blue banner reading, “Koldkill” It looked like malware wrapped in HTML, but you were desperate.

Intrigued, you clicked.

The screen went black, then flickered to life, revealing a grainy, snowy landscape. In the middle stood a lone player, their username in Russian: Лёд, google translate told you it meant ice.

A chat box popped up in the bottom corner.

Welcome! Say Hi to A Kolder!

[Лёд]: You’re late.

[You]: ???

[You]: late for what?

[Лёд]: The ghast doesn’t wait.

[You]: ok?? and that means?

[Лёд]: Means you’re bad at this already.

You squinted at the screen, already annoyed. The game had no instructions, just your tiny sprite bundled up in winter gear and Ice standing ominously still.

You fumbled with the arrow keys, making your character shuffle awkwardly through the snow. Ice’s sprite moved with practiced precision, like he’d been playing this game for years.

[Лёд]: Slower than a glacier. Nice.

[You]: Excuse me?

The game was bizarre. There were no clear objectives—just snow, ice, and the occasional death trap that Ice always seemed to anticipate.

[Лёд]: Don’t step there.

[You]: Why not?

You stepped there anyway. A massive icicle fell from the sky, crushing your character.

[Лёд]: Exactly.

Hours passed, but you couldn’t stop playing. Ice was infuriating, cryptic, sarcastic, and way too good at the game but his normally weird comments kept you entertained.

[You]: So, what’s the point of this game?

[Лёд]: Survival.

[You]: And if I survive?

[Лёд]: You won’t.

“Wow, motivational,” you muttered to yourself.

The internet flickered, and the screen froze. When it reloaded, Ice’s sprite was standing unusually close to yours.

[You]: Why are you so close?

[Лёд]: Making sure you don’t disappear.

Your stomach twisted. His cryptic responses were starting to feel somewhat… personal.

It got worse.

As you played, Ice started commenting on things he shouldn’t have known.

[Лёд]: Searching for answers already?

You froze. You had been googling the game in another tab.

[You]: How do you know that?

[Лёд]: I see you.

Your webcam light blinked on.

Panic surged through you. 

[Лёд]: Relax.

[You]: you're creeping me out.

[Лёд]: Interesting.

Right after the reply, the game crashed.

Your computer flickered, and the arctic wasteland returned. The chat box reappeared, but it’s different.

The screen stuttered, static crackling through your speakers. Slowly, pixel by pixel, an image formed—dark, grainy, and unmistakably human.

A man’s face emerged from the static. Pale skin, sharp features, dark eyes that stared directly at you. His black hair blended into the shadows, and though most of his face was obscured, his presence was undeniable.

Your heart stopped.

It couldn’t be.

You leaned closer to the screen, your breath catching. The face belonged to someone you knew. Someone who haunted your waking thoughts and dreams.

Him.

Sunghoon. Park Sunghoon.

The guy you’d been obsessing over for years. The guy whose Instagram posts you liked at 3 a.m. The guy whose photos you saved, whose playlists and home address you found, the guy whose every move you followed like a moth to a flame.

No, it wasn’t possible.

Your chest tightened. How?

His smirk flickered onto the screen, just as sharp and cruel as you remembered from every candid photo you’d seen of him.

[Лёд]: You think you’re the only one who’s been watching?

Your stomach dropped.

You froze in your chair, a cold sweat breaking out on your skin. Memories flashed through your mind—late nights scrolling through his tagged photos, creating burner accounts just to follow his private profiles. You’d thought you were invisible, just another faceless admirer in a sea of them.

Admirer is an understatement.

A stalker.

But he noticed.

And he’s been watching you back.

The screen glitched again, and his voice, smooth, low, and chilling crackled through your speakers for the first time.

You jumped, nearly toppling out of your chair. Hearing his voice made it all real.

Your breath hitched.

The webcam light blinked on. You felt his gaze pierce through you, even though he was just pixels on a screen.

“You think I didn’t see you staring at my photos? Clicking through my life like it was some open book?” he asked. “But I liked it. Knowing you were watching.”

Your hands trembled over the keyboard.

The realization hit you like a freight train. Sunghoon wasn’t just some random crush you’d stalked from afar. He’d been stalking you, too. Harder.

“You know what they say,” he murmured, his smirk now fully visible on the screen.

“Obsession breeds obsession.”

[mathysphere]

Hey, so, this post here-- by @hadeelfamily, a woman trying to evacuate her family from Palestine-- is real. She is who she says she is. I'm certain of it.

I've donated myself, and will donate more; for the rest of the year-- or until their need is met-- one half of everything I get selling cross-stitch patterns will go to Hadeel Mikki and her family.

If you would like to see my research and reasons to be certain, it's after the cut.

The fundraiser is for a woman named Hadeel Mikki and her family-- her husband, two daughters, her mother, and her two brothers-- and includes two photos of her:

A search for her name brings up a long internet trail: as a programmer and former computer science major, Hadeel Mikki's been active online, and when she's posting about work stuff-- mostly web and app development-- Hadeel uses her real name and photo.

I found six different accounts, all using the same name, and all featuring photos of the same woman-- not all identical photos, but separate photos of the same person-- and all with activity dating back at least a year or more.

I've looked over the activity for each, and I do not believe there's any chance that they aren't legitimate.

Two of them are static freelancer websites, and another is an abandoned Pinterest account: the info there matches the others, but there's nothing current. On the other three (LinkedIn, Threads, and TikTok) the most recent posts are all variations on the same theme: "Please help my family. My young daughters are suffering. Please donate to help get us out of Gaza."

They're certifiably real accounts, and they link to the same GoFundMe. Is it possible that either her LinkedIn or Threads or TikTok account could have been hacked and hijacked into posting a scam fundraiser? I guess. But not all three, and not with the ability to post new photos and videos of her kids-- how would a hacker even get footage of a hackee's daughters in war-torn Gaza? You can't just hire some child actors. They need to match the kids from the family portrait.

This is not a scammer using someone else's name and photos, and this isn't an opportunistic hacker who managed to break in and hijack an account: this is a real woman trying to save her family.

I've looked through everything, and am myself convinced. I'll include summaries and screenshots of each account, along with the links if you'd like to check them out yourself.

On LinkedIn: profile from 2015, photo updated a year ago, liked and commented on various tech posts. Shared her GoFundMe four months ago.

On Threads: icon is her and her husband, shares programming content, "#ProgrammersCoffee" etc, and four months ago she shares a link to her GoFundMe. She has the same laptop as me.

On TikTok: early videos are about programming and app development, and the current ones are asking for help for her daughters, including photos and videos of the girls both before the war and now.

On Pinterest: nothing really there. Looks like she tried it out a long time ago and then dropped it. Still links to her long-defunct Google Plus account, even.

Five years ago she did have a board called 'Boyfriend gifts'. Must've gone well for her; they're married now.

[olderthannetfic]

given all the vitriol this website feels towards its owners, and given how difficult it has been for this site to turn a profit, do you think it would be possible to make a non-for-profit, user-run version of tumblr, just as AO3 did 16 years ago?

much like AO3, this hypothetical site could import the content of an already existing site (tumblr) so people won't have to start from scratch

do you think this is at all feasible?

--

Not easily.

Hosting unlimited images is already a problem. Hosting video too is a huge pain in the ass.

Social media is also far less static than an archive even with AO3's commenting features and frequent uploads. This means coding challenges and things that make the site even slower if traffic is too high.

IDK what Bobaboard is up to at the moment, but that's one fan-run attempt at social media. Dreamwidth has been going for years and was started by a fan as a fork of LJ. It works well in an oldschool way and does host images. Projects are out there.

Another problem is that DW already had issues getting paid, and they host primarily text. If we wanted to go back to hosting unlimited live action porn, we could easily get hit not just with paypal being blocked but with credit cards in general refusing to work with us (at which point, a project is impossible).

Moderating images at scale is a nightmare.

Banning live action images means banning gifsets of live action canons.

Banning only live action porn means either millions of moderators or AI banning sand dunes.

Can something be done? Sure. Some things are already being done. But probably not the return to 2012 Tumblr sans paywall that a lot of people desire.

[andmaybegayer]

a sort of general thing spinning off "static site generators kind of suck" is issues about ease of use vs philosophy vs productivity.

How many programmers do you know who want to make a game but refuse to use Unity or Godot or even like, löve2d because it's Ideologically Impure to use an existing engine, so they have 50 git repos with seven features bolted on to an SDL2 demo and no meaningful game design.

Part of why I don't like Static Site Generators is that they add a lot of friction. I'm writing this on my phone while waiting for a kettle to boil at work, and this ease of use is a big part of why I blog on Tumblr multiple times a day but the old SSG that hosted my website got a post every couple years.

Increasingly I'm happier to take shortcuts and borrow from other people in order to get Things Out The Door. I don't have to design/pattern/program/calculate everything myself. I care much more about end products.

I still have some philosophies I guess. I won't use VMware even if that means fighting with otherwise worse VM solutions. There are still plenty of things I enjoy designing and fabricating myself rather than buying or copying. For some people building the game engine is the fun part! But it's worth asking yourself whether that's you, or the person you wish you were.

I like embroidering and backstitching by hand. This doesn't mean I can't use components from the esp-idf components library.

See Also: How To Make Good Small Games, Do It Scared, etc.

[blissfullyunawares]

5 Days of Helping You Outline Your Next Novel

Day 5: Obsidian for Outlining

Find all 5 installments of the mini series: helping you outline your next novel

*I have added a layer of “static” over my screenshots so they are distinctive enough to stand apart from the surrounding text

did you miss this series? here you can find all posts here: [day 1] [day 2] [day 3] [day 4]

Do you use Obsidian?

What is Obsidian?

A note-taking and knowledge management tool that allows you to create and connect notes seamlessly.

Uses a local-first approach, meaning your data is stored on your computer, not the cloud (unless you choose to sync).

Features bidirectional linking, which helps create a non-linear, networked way of organizing ideas—great for brainstorming and outlining.

Why should you use Obsidian?

Flexible & Customizable – Unlike rigid writing apps, you can design your own workflow.

Distraction-Free Writing – Markdown keeps the focus on text without extra formatting distractions.

Ideal for Outlining & Organization – Connect story ideas, characters, and settings effortlessly.

Obsidian for Writing

Outlining

Creating a One Pager

Create a single markdown note for a high-level novel summary.

Use headings and bullet points for clarity.

Link to related notes (e.g., character pages, theme exploration).

Here’s an example of an outline I’m currently using. This is what my website will have on it (and what goals I hope to achieve w my website)

Using the Native Canvas Tool

Use Obsidian’s native Canvas tool to visually outline your novel. (Best on PC)

Create a board with columns for Acts, Chapters, or Story Beats.

Drag and drop cards as the story evolves.

Writing

Why Write Directly in Obsidian?

Minimalist interface reduces distractions.

Markdown-based formatting keeps the focus on words.

No auto-formatting issues (compared to Word or Google Docs).

Why is Obsidian Great for Writing?

Customizable workspace (plugins for word count, timers, and focus mode).

Easy to link notes (e.g., instantly reference past chapters or research).

Dark mode & themes for an optimal writing environment.

Organization in Obsidian

Outlining, Tags, Links

Each chapter, character, important item, and setting can have its own linked note.

Below, for example, you can see the purple text is a linked page directly in my outline.

Use bidirectional linking to create relationships between (story) elements. Clicking these links will automatically open the next page.

Tags can be used for important characters, items, places, or events that happen in your writing. Especially useful for tracking.

Folders for Efficient Storage

Organize notes into folders for Acts, Characters, Worldbuilding, and Drafts.

Use tags and backlinks for quick navigation.

Creating a separate folder for the actual writing and linking next (chapter) and previous (chapter) at the bottom for smooth navigation.

You can also create and reuse your own internal templates!

Spiderweb Map Feature (Graph View)

Visualize connections between characters, plot points, and themes. Below you’ll see the basic mapping of my website development project.

This view can help you spot disconnected (floating) ideas and create bridges to them.

Exporting

Why Export?

Ready to format in another program (Scrivener, Word, Docs, Vellum, etc).

Need a clean version (removing tags, notes, etc) for beta readers or editors.

Creating a backup copy of your work.

When should you export?

Personally, I like to export every 5 chapters or so and update my live version on Google Docs. This allows my family, friends, and beta readers to access my edited work.

After finishing a draft or major revision.

Before sending to an editor or formatting for publication.

Where should you export?

Personally I copy and paste my content from each chapter into a google doc for editing. You may also want to make note of the following export options:

Markdown to Word (.docx) – For editing or submitting.

Markdown to PDF – For quick sharing

Markdown to Scrivener – For those who format in Scrivener.

To Conclude

Obsidian is an invaluable tool for novelists who want a flexible, organized, and distraction-free writing process.

Try setting up your own Obsidian vault for your next novel! Comment below and let me know if this was helpful for you 🫶🏻

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[wrestlingarsenal]

Twenty years ago today, I posted this image of a Double Torture Rack on my old Wrestling Arsenal website. I was featuring Backbreakers at the time. You can view more great Torture Rack screencaps in that old gallery.

The image shows Shane Styles and Beau Nasty from BG East's video, Tag Team Torture 6. Those early matches from the TTT series were just so incredible, I still enjoy re-watching them 20+ years later. Here I've updated that old static image with GIF animations so you can view this epic moment in motion:

[companyindianwebsite]

Features of Static Website Design

Introduction: Static websites are still a dependable and effective choice in the field of web development for a variety of uses. Static websites are made up of pre-made HTML, CSS, and JavaScript files that are sent straight to the user’s browser, in contrast to dynamic websites, which depend on server-side processing and database interactions. Even with the popularity of dynamic content…

[cog-bucks]

Random Cog Headcanons: The Personality Matrix

Today, I bring you some headcanons inspired by the different kinds of suits described by the TTCC team! More specifically, it’s inspired by what was said in a post on the TTCC website here:

I find the concept of different kinds of suits having different programming and processors to be incredibly interesting, so I just had to explore it! While they’re called personality processors by the team, I prefer the term ‘personality matrix’. You can assume they’re basically the same thing when I discuss them here. I won’t be getting into the different levels of self-preservation here, because that might deserve its own post, but there’s still plenty of stuff for me to yap about. We’re on that longposting grind for sure.  ㅤ As a head's up, I typically call cogs from TTCC suits! So you'll see me using that language a lot on this blog. The two terms are 100% interchangeable! ‎ㅤ Summary: All suits have within them a personality chip that contains what is known as a personality matrix—that is, the part of a suit that ensures actions are in line with emotions, thoughts, and internal dispositions. There are three kinds of personality matrix featured in suits: Static, Semi-Adaptive, and Adaptive. 

Static Personality Matrices

Static is the most basic, rudimentary form of personality matrix, and by extension the cheapest. Suits with a static personality matrix are, in essence, entirely unable to experience any form of personality development or change, regardless of their experiences. Because of their many limitations, this form of personality matrix has only limited use cases in the modern day. Static personalities are usually found in various kinds of basic “grunt” or “stock” suits, who are often created to serve simple functions, such as filing paperwork or roaming the streets. Typically, there are a set number of static personality presets, which means that a great many stock suits often come to have the same personality programming, though there are exceptions to every rule. ‎ㅤ If a suit with a static personality matrix is factory reset due to catastrophic damage—that is, if their memories and personal experiences are entirely wiped—virtually nothing will change about the way that they behave or identify in a general sense. They will, however, cease to recognize people, places, learned skills, or experiences that they were previously familiar with. In essence, they would still be the same exact person—just without any personal memories. ‎ㅤ That being said, limited adaptability does not mean a lack of sentience, nor an inability to learn. It is only the personality itself that is unable to change over time. For example, if a static suit is primarily positive and bubbly in personality, negative experiences will not change that fact. Due to this, they are very emotionally resilient. Some view such resilience as quite a preferable trait in a lackey, for better or for worse.

Semi-Adaptive Personality Matrices

Semi-adaptive is the most common form of personality matrix. Suits with a semi-adaptive personality matrix are pre-programmed with a particular temperament, personality, or disposition that is algorithmically adjusted over the course of their lifespan according to experience and changing circumstances. Suits with a semi-adaptive personality are favored due to their effective balance of predictable outcome and flexibility; one can all but guarantee that a particular suit will display the desired temperament, such as being driven and diligent, while maintaining an ability to pivot or change their approach if necessary. Over time, semi-adaptive suits are capable not only of changing their behavior according to external demands, but altering their self-concept through personal exploration as well. Regardless, a significant portion of the original “base” personality is maintained irrespective of circumstance; semi-adaptive suits are not known to deviate so significantly that they no longer resemble their “base” personality type, which could be considered a potential constraint. It’s a good thing, then, that there are many more variants of semi-adaptive “base” personalities than is the case with static personalities. You can even get one custom made! ‎ㅤ If a suit with a semi-adaptive personality matrix is factory reset, the suit will revert back to their original “base” personality and self-concept. They will lose not only knowledge of people, places, learned skills, and experiences, but the culmination of all adaptive personality data gained over the years. Upon being wiped, semi-adaptive suits cease to be the same person—and, due to the complexity of the personality matrix itself, adapting their way back to their original selves is all but impossible. Their previous self would effectively cease to be, even if the facets it was built upon remain, though it would not prevent them from functioning entirely.

Adaptive Personality Matrices

Adaptive personality matrices are one of the most complex and expensive forms of personality matrix. For this reason, they are incredibly uncommon, and primarily seen in the children of wealthy suits who, in turn, have the time, resources, and confidence to raise them. Suits with an adaptive personality matrix start out with no “base” personality, constructing their self-concept and natural dispositions from scratch through use of a powerful algorithm that processes and translates experiential data. They are not beholden to the limitations of a prefabricated personality, and thus may possess eccentricities, quirks, or interests that would not otherwise be present in a standard personality type. Whether such quirks are beneficial or detrimental is highly variable, of course, as is the case with most aspects of this kind of personality matrix. ‎ㅤ Despite requiring quite a bit of additional time investment, an adaptive personality matrix can result in significant advantages if the suit in question is reared and educated properly. The personality matrices of adaptive suits take longer to calibrate, but end up exceedingly responsive and fine-tuned as a result, creating strong yet flexible self-concepts that do not accept or reject information according to a predefined set of internal characteristics. ㅤ Rather than consulting a “base” mental framework when making decisions and tweaking as needed, adaptive personality matrices feature a complicated system that continuously weighs and organizes experiential data to determine the desired course of action. In other words, personal experiences and potential responses are weighed against themselves, rather than being compared to modified presets, with the most heavily weighted data forming the “core” identity over time. This results in thorough thought processes and complex value systems that allow adaptive suits to more easily thrive in unstable environments where others seem to struggle—though, in exchange, it also requires a lot of processing power, which is partly responsible for the hefty cost. Even so, a number of pioneers in various industries possess adaptive personality matrices, responding more readily to change and seeing possibilities where others do not.  ㅤ The potential rewards of an adaptive personality matrix may be high, but so are the risks. Unfortunately, adaptive personality matrices are viewed as unreliable with regard to mass-production on the whole. High cost and time investment aside, the personalities and dispositions of adaptive suits can go awry if they’re handled incorrectly; as is the case with human children, those with adaptive personalities who are mishandled may offer undesirable results or display defects of character. On top of this, adaptive suits are incredibly vulnerable in that core personality data can be easily lost due to damage. Suits with static or semi-adaptive personalities can have their ‘base’ personality re-loaded after repairs in the event of damage to their personality matrices, allowing them to continue working even if they’ve suffered significant losses. Not so for adaptive suits; in their case, what’s lost is lost.  ㅤ Given this fact, factory resetting a suit with an adaptive personality matrix is incredibly unwise and never recommended under any circumstances. If a suit with an adaptive personality matrix is reset, they are effectively rendered inert and unable to properly function. With the entirety of their personality and self-concept having been erased, unlucky adaptive suits who experience a factory reset effectively become a completely blank slate; they awaken with no idea as to who, where, or why they are, and often lose the vast majority of their necessary life skills in the process. For this reason, it is generally considered far more considerate (and far more cost-effective) to decommission an adaptive suit in need of a factory reset rather than to go about initiating the process.

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Man, that was a long one. There's some other things I want to go over in the future, such as factory resets and why they might happen, my headcanons for how cog/suit children work, etc. but this is probably it for today considering how long I spent writing it. Thanks for reading!

[winterandwords]

📝 I would sell my soul for a feed on Tumblr that only shows original posts from blogs I follow

I just thought of something Tumblr needs. On Bluesky, there's a feed option called OnlyPosts. It shows just original posts by the people you follow. You can still see the posts people have shared or replied to in your regular feed as usual, but the OnlyPosts feed is a really awesome addition.

So I know reblogs are the lifeblood of Tumblr. I reblog a lot. I love that the people I follow reblog a lot. This is how things are shared and discovered here and I would never want to change that.

But I would LOVE a Tumblr feed that showed only original posts from the people I follow. I know there's a feed for your blog subs, but that still includes reblogs, and the original posts can easily get lost.

I want to easily be able to find WIP updates, life updates, random brainspew etc and the more I think about it, the more I realise that I don't post much of that stuff here because I know it'll vanish into the ether as soon as it's posted.

And I'm aware that people have tag lists for their WIPs, but that's only one small part of it and it doesn't solve the wider issue. Which is, in part, because posts about tag lists also vanish into the churning feed of the Tumblr ocean.

Plus, I know Tumblr has the capability to provide this feature because when you search for a hashtag, you can filter for original posts only.

I was toying with the idea of actually blogging a bit on here because my website is where my stories are posted and I like to keep it mostly static apart from that. It's not a writing updates, personal ramblings or audience interaction kind of place for me. But I feel like blog posts on Tumblr would just be throwing more stuff into the abyss.

ANYWAY.

Tumblr @staff, please can we have a feed for only original posts from the blogs we follow?

(Also, if there's already some way to filter my following or blog subs feed for original posts only, please can someone tell me what it is? I've been here for a ridiculously long time, but I'm amazing at accidentally bypassing the obvious sometimes)

[kradeelav]

I've been using a mix of Krita and Paint tool SAI. I'd appreciate resources for Krita specifically too. Thank you for answering by the way. ♥️

Of course!

So! Here's my guide to making comics with Krita, down to the details such as layer setup, borders, speech bubbles, and SFX.

preface: it took me at least a year to figure this process out; but once when you've figured out the system & a template, it's smooth sailing. let's use this finished spread from the selfship comic last year to go through the process:

i'm going to assume a certian level of digital program proficiency (knowing what layers are, having a general idea of what vector vs raster graphics are, etc) since otherwise this post would be a book lol.

(if the read more does not work: the static permanent link for the full tutorial is on my website here: https://kradeelav.com/diary/tegalog.cgi?postid=312&1740096282

rest of the post under the cut; this one's going to be a long one as is.

let's start with talking about the layers for a single page of the above comic image.

(ignore the "orbs" and "titania bubble" layers - those were oddities for this specific spread.) Going from the top downwards:

SFX - sound effects. this is an optional layer to have if you don't have a lot of sound effects. you can use either render the sound effects by drawing them out (raster) or vector SFX; whatever you're most comfortable with. more on that below.

frame - this is the comic page borders.

speech bubbles - self explanatory. contains both the text inside the bubble and the bubbles themselves.

ink - main lineart & drawing layer; self explanatory.

tone - the shading layer.

(deleted) ruff/sketch - this is the sketchy thumbnail layer that is imported when i first start working on each spread, and naturally gets deleted when the lineart starts looking good on its own.

so!

there's two types of digital rendering krita can do: raster (most similar to drawing with a pencil or tablet) and vector (computer draws mathematical lines and shapes and text that you can manipulate). a lot of programs fully specialize in one or the other but the killer feature of krita is it can do both on a single page; you just need separate layers depending on the rendering..

that's what this "fx" symbol stands for by the way - these are the vector layers....

... and the symbols circled in purple clue you in that they're raster layers (ink, tone, sketch) where you do the actual drawing. with me so far?

speaking of those:

borders/frame

here's what the borders layer looks like + (the print layout layer above everything in black/yellow). the print layout layer is really only useful if you're physically printing this comic (it's basically bleed/trim if you've heard of those terms, ignore this otherwise).

i really struggled with doing borders in krita until finding this tutorial:

- since the thing is i make a lot of last minute changes. i need to be able to move and edit borders around easily if a panel's not working for me. so the method above makes it incredibly flexible to just ... up and move one, or to make a gutter wider.

i also really need to be able to see what's behind the borders while i'm drawing it to check anatomy sometimes -- the beautiful thing is you can simply turn the layer style to "multiply" and it's effectively transparent with one click.

like this, voila!

lettering

here's the lettering layer(s) with one bubble's text selected.

fair warning: krita is absolute ass with the text tool. it's the biggest failing but in newer versions i do believe they're slowly working on improvements. thankfully this program can do just enough to letter bubbles.

essentially, i use the same trick as the frames shown in the video above. if you slap a "layer style > stroke" on the whole "bubbles" layer, that's where that 2px black border comes from, and that layer-style-as-a-border "follows" every bubble so it's consistent.

(rule of thumb aesthetics-wise is speech bubble borders should be slightly thinner than frame borders, and on average about as wide as your lineart.)

SFX (sound effects)

technically you can hand-ink all of your SFX if vector art scares you or if you don't intend on doing much, but the vast majority of pros use vector work for efficiency. hentai/erotic work also has a lot of SFX versus other (non-NSFW) genres for the immersion factor with bodily functions.

the spread above didn't need a lot, though.

as you can see it's mostly the inorganic orb clinks and then the big SHING. (i put my for-the-web-kradeelav.com signature on the same layer for laziness).

here's part of my current sfx library below just to show you what i start with for erotic strips; usually i start with some base fonts and start moving the letters around individually.

(a lot of these are redone for every project; there's some in here that are already "outdated" in my eyes.)

miscellaneous

my favorite inking brushes are from this free resource pack. my favorite halftone (shading) brushes are from this (also free). thanks for reading!

[canmom]

canmom.art is well overdue getting updated with a lot of posts on here. it still doesn't even have the music theory series, for example. plenty of other posts, book crit and such, needs to go on there. rpg posts are woefully behind current thoughts on all that.

unfortunately this seems to be slipping into the 'bin of large imposing tasks', which i rarely open, instead apparently preferring to say something about AI or some shit, which is easy to start doing.

the habits need to change. my relationship with reading and posting on this site (and other social media feeds like youtube) is not healthy - projects I want to continue have been backburnered for months of years, new ones barely get started, my work is not doing great rn. and yet it seems to represent something I need, because I keep coming back here for many hours when I planned to do other things.

I have tried other approaches, like keeping a personal journal that nobody else will read, but somehow I come back here, maybe because I will get a number for my trouble. the exact number isn't that important, if it isn't zero - sometimes it's less than 20, sometimes it's like 60, these are about equally satisfying. the rare numbers above 100 can be pleasing, but also slightly worrying, since they are more likely to bring in someone who comes in hot with an angry disagreement.

I do however have a lot of admiration for (presumed to be) autistic people who define their own little web corner full of blog posts, fiction, art, comics, manifestos etc. etc. etc. on all of their projects and scattershot interests. Jennifer Diane Reitz is the prototypical example. Schuschinus and xrafstar are powerful examples in the artistic sphere; floraverse is a more community-shape one; qntm is a more normie-aligned one; todepond is a newer flavour; bogleech is borderline, hewing a bit close to a consistent listicle Content(TM) flavour. they might deliver fiction, essays, or some other stranger thing. sometimes the material is quite inaccessible to outsiders, or requiring immersion in an insular but devoted community, but these are not totally inaccessible - they aren't timecube style crank websites. other times it goes to great pains to lay it all out and be somewhere you can get lost, and yet can't help but have its own specific character. it must be at least a little intriguing. you should be saying 'what's the deal with this' - it must have its own deal, but the more inscrutable the deal, the better.

depending on the person, the look and feel of such sites can be aggressively saturated and high contrast blast, or at the extreme end of programmer-driven cleanness and readability. what you should not find is ads. the site is paid for by a day job, or perhaps a patreon. it is personal. it accumulates sporadically over the years, more varied than your average webcomic site, by the whims of its creator.

very often people who run such a site will have strange opinions that interject unexpectedly into their work. JDR infamously positioned herself as the expert on 'transexuality' in the early internet, presenting a very partisan medicalist account best represented in the 'scientific' are-you-trans test called the COGIATI. today I came across someone from the ratsphere called 'gwern', whose site was among the most impressively featured static sites I've encountered with some very clever hover-based interactions, but they will also randomly drop into some bizarre eugenic parenthetical about the effect of mental illness on evolutionary fitness or some other condescending shit. baffling person. this is part of the character of such websites, though. you don't get to be a weirdo on the internet without being, well, a weirdo.

if you vibe with their flavour of weirdness, finding such a site is like finding a treasure trove, and feels more like getting to know someone's soul or whatever than most other encounters on this dreadful internet. even if this is as illusory as all other parasocial relationships.

this is what I want canmom.art to be. perhaps it already approximates it. and if I can make it the main nucleus of activity, then I am less tied to one or another social network. such is the hope...

when I die, I hope my website will serve as some sort of time capsule record of what I was, a place for someone to discover what one life was animated by in the early 21st century, and ideally a trove of art to fascinate them. but it is perpetually incomplete; for all the pride I take in making it standards-compliant web engineering, it's never quite there. some known issues: the comment field breaks the responsive design causing a huge horizontal scroll on mobile. it is not loading as instantaneously as a static site should, largely due to the large web font, with a warning about layout being forced that I have not solved. most images in the animation night archives do not have alt text, and may never. there are no pages which collate tags.

[s-lycopersicum]

I think the idea that website development got harder over time is inaccurate, or at least a bit "skewed".

It's true that, as browsers got more capable and sites provided better, more advanced features, matching that "state of the art" got really difficult, specially at the hobbyist level. However, creating the good old static HTML site has never been easier.

[dying-signals]

Nekoweb: An alternate static site host that may fit you!

On the topic of digital mutual support, did you know that nekoweb, is a static web hosting platform similar to Neocities, however offers a considerable number of features and pros, some of the most important in my opinion are access to file types and coding options that make automation and customization broader than ever, a cheaper membership plan that supports an active development and moderation team, and the ability to allow multiple users to edit a site!  This last feature let me help @goobergrove get their original site set up! Web development and making websites does not have to be a solo venture, you can help your friends! While Neocities is quite popular due to the oldweb revival scene, and the lasting legacy of the now defunct Yesterweb, nekoweb may be a fantastic platform for people looking to leave Tumblr and such but not necessarily abandon the web entirely. I'll keep posting resources, but this is a place to start. Read the full article