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SITE UPDATES December 22, 2024 I've show championed 100 pets to SGCh this year (that's 30 points)! 87 of them on the Petz Show Club discord and 13 on forums! 9 of those 100 made it to UGCh (that's 50 points). And I can't talk about it on Tumblr because my account got deleted. I'm despairing that I'll get it back as I haven't heard anything and it was deleted on the 17th. In any case, I need to figure out a better way of showcasing my pets, I think. I mean, I like the CSV auto-generator thing, but it's hard to compare and look at a large group of pets with. And the show champs are scattered throughout. I'm definitely feeling overwhelmed by the size of my crew. I feel glutted on Advents. I think that's normal, though? I don't remember advents being a thing years ago, the PC has changed a lot. Considering I was super into showing my pets but I only have 5 or so that championed. I think I've got a few more that have points here and there, but nothing like 100 in four months. I'm still super stoked at that. December 4, 2024 I've changed some graphics to make the site winter-themed instead of browns/oranges for harvest time. I think I've got all the crew pages up, just lack most of the pictures. I'm getting an influx of new pets daily with advent, so I'll have to make a big crew update in January, I think. I've just got other things on my plate currently. Still don't have my leave page done yet. Maybe I can just copy/paste from my Tumblr for that. Yep. Quick and dirty. I think I'll tweak it to buttons for more sites later. November 13, 2024 I'm slowly chipping away at the crew pages, got most of my cat pictures up and I changed the background to white, just so you can't see the backgrounds on the show pics. I'm going to change it back to grey, even though the show pics look silly. I was tired of the Common Ninja widget not updating my tumblr, took it down and started looking into how to make the embed from Tumblr look better, and Common Ninja finally updated on a different page. Silly, but it seems like it knew I was about to replace it, ha! November 9, 2024 I'm going to have to have a past updates page soon, if I keep yapping like this as I work, huh? In any case, I somehow ended up losing all the comma (delimiters?) in my CSV and that's why it didn't work. KingHarry sorted me out and got the CSV working again. And then I promptly... did NOT mess it up again! I was able to get another "if" loop to work, saying "if" there's a show title, then show a hyperlink. Took some fiddling, but I'm quite pleased with myself on that front. I think I've made a show awards page for all the cats that the link pops up for now, though all the ones I'm showing at Petz Show Club discord just have a "shows pending" page. I did start making the sporting dogs crew page, but by hand when the CSV wasn't working and I was about ready to give up with it. It'll look a little different when I use the CSV file but I think I got a decent little replicate with just the HTML. Find-It is up, showing off a new fancy boutique purchase helped along mightly by Mako. And since this is veering into not site related, I'll close up now. November 8, 2024 I tried to add a hyperlink to the CSV file. It didn't work. I reverted back to the previous version, and now the javascript is still not working. Yay! /sarcasm. I wrote my about page, but I haven't added pictures of my cats yet. The last few I've taken on my phone of them aren't very clear. I should get the real camera out and snap some photos before Salem's gone. I'm a little frustrated with the Common Ninja widget that's showing my Tumblr account. It won't update. I'm going to poke it some more and then I might go back to the Tumblr embed, even if it looks like shit. At least that should update. Edit #1: Tried using the div layer "JS SDK" way the Common Ninja says is better than iframes. It just says "Could Not Make Request." I don't know what that means. Is that a problem with the widget or Common Ninja? Is it a Tumblr issue? Who knows. Back to the iframes. Edit #2: I've given neocities time to update the CSV file. Stuff is still broken. I don't know how to fix it. This is frustrating. November 7, 2024 I've added more pages: Stamps made, stamps collected, cliques. All of which took hours. Hopefully, it won't ever take that long again, as I can just copypaste to any new site layouts and updates should only be a few stamps at a time. I still need to make the about and leave pages and finish the crew stuff. I've got almost all of the cat pages done (minus the pictures, that's a slow work-in-progress). Next up will be the dogs, the first step of which is to add all of them to the CSV file. I'm pretty sure I have about twice as many dogs as cats, so this may take a while in and of itself, lol. I still need to sort out some of my made-stamps, I think. November 6, 2024 I was successful the first day with the Javascript after KingHarry's help. But now, just copying the code and making a new page, changing just the breed (which is supposed to collect the info) and the page won't work. I thought maybe it was because it had a dash and number in it. Tried without the dash. Tried it with the number written out. Nope. Tried it without either number or dash, just capitalized "Mix Cat" like "Alley Cat". Still no dice. Just to be sure it wasn't my pathing or html, I left text on the page where the Javascript was supposed to be. The text showed up. Tried just copying one of the other pages without changing anything and that one showed up. Have I forgotten a step in the process maybe? I must have. I thought copying and pasting from the other pages that work should be fine. I guess I'm going to keep fiddling with it. Try all avenues before asking for help because I don't want to be a bother. Edit #1: The problem seemed to be on Neocities's side. The CSV wasn't updating in real time like I expected (downloading the file from the dashboard resulted in a file that wasn't as up-to-date as the one I'd uploaded somehow.) Giving the site time to catch up to itself seemed to fix things. And I used the breed "Two Breed Mix Cat" in the javascript and it worked. Edit #2: Thanks to Helen for offering a suggestion of font types (for someone else, lol) and for linking me to a page about it to learn how to do it! Cute, curly font! November 4, 2024 I have read over KingHarry's Javascript crew stuff from here, but couldn't seem to get it to produce results. So I've asked for help. We'll see if it's something easy I missed or something extra complicated. At first I thought I needed to copy what is shown in the picture in the "table" section, but then I realized it's just a screenshot to show you what to edit. So I only have the stuff in the "script" section now. I can see how some of the sections should work, but others confuse me. Like some of the columns of the CSV are referred to as "petData[#]" but others are just "petShow" or "petOther". I think the difference is in how the content is used? petData is mean for things that need to be compied, petShow is more for function like if this is "TRUE" then display that. Edit #1: With a little help from KingHarry, we got the javascript to work. I understand some of it and was able to modify it. Of course, I went ahead and made many of the cat pages but then I had to tweak things and had to replace a section in every single file. Neocities makes every-fricking-thing case-sensitive which is super annoying. I know the pictures on the crew pages look bad, but my show pics were the best source of named pics at the moment. If the pics are broken it's either I don't have a show pic of that pet at the moment or I haven't caught a case-sensitive file name. I both like the font size on my crew page and don't like it. November 3, 2024 Alright. So I think I'm done with the home page for now. I'm using a "Commonninja" widget to get my Tumblr blog here (the base Tumblr embed javascript looked awful.) They had several more that looked interesting, like a family tree or cards for a crew page, but I think I'm going to use KingHarry's javascript for the crew page. But! I'm starting the hex archive next, because I'm basically going to copy and paste from my old site, since that's got most of my hexie info. I'll have to add, like two, I think. November 2, 2024 It's been a very long time since I've made a website. I've stolen this from one I made in 2006. We'll see if I can canabalize it to make a working one now. Edit #1: I think we're cooking with gas now! Edit #2: I just realized I had the date wrong, lol. I don't think there's much left of the one I copied. And I've done a little dabbling with the css (evil, evil thing, Precious.) I made buttons! They aren't the prettiest but they're big and I can see them and that's good for my aging eyes. They are not links yet, because I haven't made the other pages. I suppose when I'm done tinkering with the look of this page then I can start on the other pages. So I understand the point of css. It lets you put all of your design stuff in one file instead of as a chunky bit of code on each page. You get like the "table" or "div" to show up the same way all across the pages. But what if I wanted two different div layers? Like, I had this block of text as a div, but then I wanted the buttons on their own, so I had to rework the first one to be invisible and use a table for this part. Maybe you can have like div1 and div2. But if I'm only using them each in one place... I don't know. There is CSS. I have the background, I am rather pleased that I got Love up there in the corner. Edit #3: I'm still used to making websites work on 4:3 / 600x800 screens. If you notice how everything's to one side and there's a bunch of open space over there --> lol. This thing isn't responsive, but the buttons are stationary and the table floats over everything and can scroll sideways to still be readable when I dock my window on the side of my monitor. It probably looks atrocious on a mobile screen. Edit #4: I have embedded my Tanglewood tumblr. It doesn't look right, but I'm working piecemeal. This is what I get for working live rather than all offline. I should probably back up this page. |