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i'm not feeling the manifesto today, so i think i might mess around and start the blog redesign that i've been thinking to do for quite some time now! i think the last time i redesigned it was 3 years ago(?) because i was in a webdesign spree and i think it's due for an update. https://t.co/KdiVD6Q97n
the website itself has been there since 2009(?), and i got it as my 8th birthday present. i know it's a weird birthday present for an eight years old but my parents gave it to me and i've been using it as a place to dump stuff ever since.
and when i say dump stuff i mean literally. sure they wanted me to blog and shit but i was like 10 so it was literally just me doing the least i need to do for them to accept lol. mostly ended up using it to document (some) my homeschooling process. https://t.co/tL5MtLS4TR
god looking back at the stuff i wrote back when i was in middle school is less cringy because it's cringe and more because "oh god why didn't i write more" it's filled with one paragraph blogs with images. tf was i thinking??
even looking back at the more recent stuff (2018) stuff is atrocious. i wrote what i thought was a really good thoughtful review of a discussion about the philosophy of education and reading it back, god how little did i manage to put on writing? https://t.co/geW0k5ERGW
anyway, i think i want to start writing more and it would be a shame not to use this place that i've had for quite some time now. it's in wordpress and i'm using elementor to design it, so it shouldn't be a pain to create. but i don't know what kind of image i want for my blog
this i think is an important place to start my cultivation of aesthetic. the website is going to be my home in the internet. a centralized point where i have full absolute control over. it should be a manifestation of my aesthetic. https://t.co/U5z3JAB9Xd
for some reason, my blog still have views and sessions coming in even though i've never updated it. the Ivan Illich discussion review seems to be carrying weight lol. https://t.co/PD6JBIoG2f
coolio, homepage is done. i decided that the vibe that me from three years ago still persist in the design sense that i like (or is capable of creating), so i'm sticking with the white on black theme, changing it up a bit to focus more on the writings with the hero post slider https://t.co/E9SuHBXP1b
next is the actual place where people will read my stuff. i think this is the most atrocious part of my blog because i have zero clue how people should read my stuff. let us see what i can do ;0 https://t.co/dxklAgg4UN
hmmm... i don't think there's much i can do from a webwide design stand point since the problem is just that i wrote too much text without enough images to help break it up so it's hard to focus. might also need to up the H1 sizes as well. https://t.co/nC9Pb3aPgq
also i lied the most atrocious part wasn't the post. it was my about me page. jeeeeeez, what was it with me three years ago and *a billion animations*. how should i tackle this hmmmmm.... https://t.co/Cj1lnio7g5
coolio, about me is done! it's... bland, i have to admit. but that is more of a testament to my ability to create cool stuff more than anything. this is the most that my art-less ass is able to muster that still fits with my general aesthetic https://t.co/cfAqEdLJDz
archive pages done! good enough for now. might change it around later once i got more POAST in there, but for now it's coolio~ https://t.co/NJ3Vf4eaFL
