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Since you guys asked about this... (ace120c.neocities.org)
submitted 23 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago) by Ace120C@sopuli.xyz to c/linux@lemmy.ml
 

Since Some of you guys asked about more details of how I migrated the entire school's infrastructure into Linux Mint, I made a small neocities website where I retell the story with a bit more details as much as I can remember them, took me around a week to make it so go have fun there and enjoy (the website is under the AGPL license, if you are interested you can check out the source code under "License" in the website or go here https://github.com/Ace120C/my-personal-website ) there is more things to improve upon so lemme know if there is anything I should be adding etc.

once again, cheers!

EDIT: The post is in the blogs tab, as now the latest button takes you to the videos tab instead

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[–] ptmb@lemmy.zip 3 points 5 hours ago (2 children)

Your blog post reminds me of my adventures working as a sysadmin at my university from quite awhile ago 😄 especially having to rush to fix the broken computers before the next class started 😂

About the website itself, I find it really cool that you made it yourself, and the vibe really reminds me of old geocities blogs 😄

Given the strong feedback given so far, I will provide a few ideas of the tiniest changes I think you can do that will make it a better website:

Currently your blog post is separated into a day per page. It gives it a sort of diary or star trek's "captain's log" feel, but for fast readers it isn't that practical, and the next button is often assumed to be for the next article, not the next section of the current article.

I would switch that pagination for a single page, with nice big titles splitting it. Don't be afraid of putting a lot of text on the same page, that's what blogs are for and your readers will thank you! 😄

And second (on Firefox for Android at least), is that the font size for the blog post only is a bit too big. About 3 to 4 words at most fit into each line, which makes it disruptive to read. The font size on the rest of the website is fine though! Double check if other mobile browsers have the same quirk, maybe this is something specific, but if it is universal, I would shrink it a bit and target about 7 to 8 words per line, that allows the flow of reading to be much easier. Make sure you don't shrink the font size too much though, otherwise people will have to squint their eyes to read 😛

With these two changes, I think your blog will have a nice balance of retro style with usability 😄

Some people mention static website generators and other things, I think you don't need those for the start of your adventure in making your website, but in the long run it might be a fun idea to adapt your theme into a static site generator like hugo, which uses go, which you already know, or jekyll or one of the others. They give you additional cool features like RSS feeds so people can subscribe and be notified when you publish a new post, and make it easier to change the same thing across all pages, all while keeping everything super simple and generating static html and css that you upload to your server. But for now, your website is really cool and you should be happy for it!

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

also thanks a lot!

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 1 points 2 hours ago

you're right about the mobile integration because I didn't optimize my website for mobile yet, but I'm planning to do so pretty soon xd

[–] Vendetta9076@sh.itjust.works 6 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Fucking neocities lmao. This is awesome. Good job op.

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 16 points 23 hours ago (1 children)

Just gonna throw some constructive criticism out here: this is not a good format for this. This is painful to read with styling, especially on mobile, and pagination requiring clicking to the next page is just not something many will bother with.

You have a GitHub, so I'd post it on a GitHub page, or just in Markdown to make it more readable.

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 9 points 23 hours ago (2 children)

agreed, I will have to improve the design on this website, cuz I honestly suck at doing that, so I'll be learning some design principals later (I'm gonna take a little break rn), as for the reason why I'm doing a website, cuz I wanna be posting more stories there so its not a one time thing, so thank you for understanding though

[–] lukecooperatus@lemmy.ml 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I didn't have any issues navigating your site on mobile. Not sure what difficulties these other comments are referring to, but I thought your site was an interesting retro-feeling experience, easier to use on mobile than a lot of other websites out there. 🤷 Good job so far!

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago

Thank you so much, I really thought I did something wrong, but I guess I've been doing okay xd

[–] just_another_person@lemmy.world 4 points 22 hours ago

Well here's an easy guide to get started: https://docs.github.com/en/pages/quickstart

[–] SidewaysHighways@lemmy.world 5 points 18 hours ago (1 children)
[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 1 points 6 hours ago
[–] gonzo-rand19@moist.catsweat.com 0 points 20 hours ago (2 children)

All of your dev log should be able to be accessed on a single page. There shouldn't be pagination. On mobile, your site is really hard to use.

Try a static site generator or hosting on GitHub Pages or something.

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 9 points 19 hours ago

But I kinda enjoy making a website from scratch :(

[–] Ace120C@sopuli.xyz 2 points 19 hours ago