Update Log
20/5/2024 [11:28]
Added the photos to the BMW M1 gallery today, might do some more later but probably not. Kinda happy that when I added pictures that were a different height than all the others the formatting didnt break from how I made the style. I was doing family stuff the past few days (including walking and taking photos) so haven't been updating the site as much.
Also showed someone the site and they gave me a few reccomendations that I'll probably work on doing. Nothing big just changing images and text thankfully :P
Later edit: Added an updates button to the main menu cos it was bugging me lol
Started adding the photos to the galleries today! Think alot of them might need more editing but i just wanted to add something so if anyone ends up on the site theres actually some content. Lots of clicking in paint.net and entering the same values over and over again. Thanking my prior self for setting up the CSS/HTML for the gallery sites well so I just gotta upload the pictures and change some links and it all formats correctly. Gonna take awhile to add all the photos but once im done i'll move onto the collection page aswell as maybe a blog for just inha1ed and then the site will probably be done. Until I wanna add more photos of course ;).
After that I think i'll take a break for a bit. Maybe start on inha2ed but i'm still undecided on what I want I want it to be for. Hopefully I'll decide by the time xD
Fixed the site, got everything working (hopefully). Didn't add and update cos im a mong and forgot lol.
14/5/24 [20:36]Fucked about with the site again today. Mostly trying to redo the main inha1ed site which i got working mostly but got stuck with the table at the bottom with all the links and picutres and shit and UGH. I wanna continue but I got other stuff I wanna do tonight so im gonna leave it. RIP
13/5/2024 [13:50] YOOOO WE'RE BACK BABY! Okay maybe not gonna be that enthusiastic but I actually did take a break from the site and when i've come back ive ACTUALLY DONE SOME GOOD SHIT LETS GOOO
Alright yeah its not that big but i made the sites for the separate galleries on inha1ed, and now all i need to do is edit the photos and get them onto the site. Just feel buzzin about making it work and look good xD. Might edit the main inha1ed site again as I've got the idea to scale the sidebars to be smaller/bigger so the site fits other resolutions. Right now on the preview page it looks really broken because i made the site on a 16:9 monitor and the preview is 4:3 or something. The OG site was fine and it all scaled because I used % for sizes, whereas on the new site i used px. The main menu scales sorta well and I used vw for sizes there so i'll figure something out.
Just feels nice to finally be motivated to do shit again :D. When I was doing the site a week ago it was because I felt like I was burnt out from stuff like drawing and so I'd ended up playing loads of games again. I needed something to do that wasn't play games and was sorta productive i suppose. Yeah ima stop here, i should really make a blog instead of doing this shit in the updates page lmao.
Also holy shit right now it is 29C in my room. Hot weather in UK sucks :(
Did the side banners for inha1ed which was mostly just using paint.net lol. Also made some hover bits for buttons and expanded the text description a bit.
Going to try not update the site as much for a bit, as right now i'm just using it to procrastinate doing other stuff that I wanna do lol.
Did more work on the new "inha1ed" site for all the car pics, still not anything to do with the actual PICTURES but still i'll get on it. Also messed about with some of the other sites in preparation for HOPEFULLY FINALLY PLEASE making the main menu the landing page xD
4/5/2024 [15:49] Small update today, just started making the new site for "inha1ed" which will be for the car pics :). Got an idea of what I want it to be but dont have any idea how its gonna work yet lol. Gonna need to learn alot of stuff probably. Right now i'm spending more time preparing the images and stuff instead of actually coding the website xD.
Update from like 30 mins later: Made a to-do list site and linked it all up. I GOTTA GO DO OTHER STUFF THO AAAA WHY DID I KEEP GOING
Made the new main menu, first idea I had didn't really work but the next one was good. I also managed to keep the idea of the OG menu as I used it at a smaller scale and quality (and size) in the background. Kinda happy with how i've progressed. Gonna try do some stuff to do with actual content now, as I REALLY NEED TO DO THAT INSTEAD OF JUST PREPARING THE WEBSITE LIKE I'VE BEEN DOING FOR THE PAST MONTH. Man I just realised how much Ive just been procrastinating because im literally just overpreparing but just in website form... smh my head.
Anyways, updated the current "main site" with some new text and i'll probably make the menu the new site next.
Feels weird updating the site at this time of the day lol. Anyways I made an about page for the new menu, havent linked it yet because i've still not made the main menu as the first page yet (mostly because the more I look at it the more I kinda hate it. Might make it a completely different menu because the quality is bad, the scale is bad, the idea of the logo and name has kinda soured in my head a bit. Dunno what i'll make it yet but I have a few ideas. All to do with Halo just not the main menu lol.
22/4/2024 [12:20]Damn, been awhile since I updated this huh. I sorta lost interest as I realised that I didnt have anything to actually put on the website (even though I had lots of ideas) so i've been focusing on other stuff like drawing etc for the time being. Anyways onto the actual update: I got the background video working on the menu which was suriprisingly simple. It doesnt completely fit and probably looks terrible on other resolutions but still i'm happy it works :P. I'm a little rusty on my already basic HTML and CSS skills. Other than that I worked on some other stuff like the background for the about page among other background images lol. Still need to add the audio but i think that will be relatively easy too. Feels kinda refreshing to work on something different, was feeling kinda unfulfilled recently. Also as someone who gets anxious alot about time and wasting it etc, its nice to see that something I thought I did months ago was really only done 3-4 weeks ago :D
2?/4/2024 [13:22]Got the menu working!!!! ...well partially atleast :D. Got all the buttons working and changing when hovered over, next step is deciding if updgrading to supporter for the background music and video is worth it o_O. Also i'll have to make it be the actual main site as right now its just a test site on its own. Also actually making stuff for the new sites because right now I dont have much lol. I got a few ideas but its mostly down to how much I actually wanna share (and also because I dont have much lol). I'm definately going to make an about page and stuff but that'll be easy by comparison. Also update the site that is currently the main site if it wont be the main site anymore. Lots to do, many updates to make!
28/3/2024 [12:10]Started making a main menu in html, before realising the buttons I'd made wont work because of the size and white space in the image. Pain. Will try again later but im too mad rn lol
26/3/2024 [12:16]Small update, just edited the to-do list. Right now most of the website work i've been doing hasnt actually been on the website itself lol. My plan is to have the main page be a copy/recreation of the Halo CE Menu, with the buttons going to different sites. Not even sure if the plan I have will work but its fun and im motivated to try make it work :). A few days ago i spent half the day trying to compress a 1m13s video down as small as possible. Got it to 1.7MB from 44MB which I hope is enough as its gonna be the background of the site. I could've gone lower but I wanted to keep it atleast 30fps and the same speed it is ingame. Gonna use a static image as a fallback anyways if it dont work. Right now the menu buttons will be images too, so dunno how well that will work x_X.
21/3/2024 [16:20]FINALLY GOT THE CAPTIONS WORKING LETS GOOOOOO. I had to pretty much redo the whole pictures section using a table instead of how it was before by just adding the images and letting the gods of formatting decide what happened. Anyways it should be much easier to add more pictures now too, although I might just make a whole new site and just link the images. I'm still not sure what to use the site for overall, posting the pictures kinda just became the whole point of it after I put them there originally. Hoping to do more on the site but i'll see lol. Not much else I can use the site for right now is the problem o_O. Eh i'll come up with ideas. Remembering those ideas? Different story lol.
18/3/2024 [15:47]Small update today, been focusing on other things atm so havent been updating the site much. Just added some more links to the images and messed about with the to-do list. Hoping to do some more work on the site eventually but im focusing on other stuff right now. Got alot of ideas but not alot of knowledge... or sense x_X
16/3/2024 [21:39]Later update, doing this because I had a pre-going-to-sleep burst of motivation. Just added the links to the images :D
16/3/2024 [12:50]Small update today, cant work on the website for too long just wanted to try add the captions and links to the images. I got the links working, not added any yet because I gotta go. Still couldnt get the captions working. Dunno why, was trying to follow a tutorial but it didnt work. Might try to just use a big table for the images later today but i'll see.
15/3/2024 [12:00?] Decided to make another page instead of just posting to the site itself. Dunno if this will work because im kinda winging it, not looked up a tutorial for this just hoping it works as I think it will xD. Cant remember when I first made the site but i'll probably make a post below this one if I can remember when. Right now i'm trying to work on getting links and captions working on the images, with some sort of animation when you hover over an image. Links would probably be to music, as thats the only thing I can think of right now. I've been looking at a couple other sites on neocities and have been stealing taking inspiration from the code on there ;). Dont wanna rip anyone off, but sometimes its easier just to inspect element on another site to see how stuff works. Although I feel like thats prolly not a good idea else the site will be a weird conglomeration of different pieces of code held together by digital ductape.
I've still got loose ideas on what I want the site to be. I think it would be better to plan that out before trying to structure the website alot. BUT I still have alot to learn, and maybe it would be better decide once I've got a better understanding of what is and isnt possible. Who knows, right now my brain is probably writing this post because it doesnt wanna focus on the more important parts. WHO KNOWS???
Alright ima stop writing now before this gets too long
Many hours later update. Got the navigation bar at the top working, finally. Went back and forth trying to figure out why the bar was so big before finding out there is a default margin of 16px or something at the top? I got no idea im tired lol. Didnt get the captions and links finished -_-