I’m websitepilled

(This post is best experienced while listening to this, it has nothing to do with it but it’s a good song. In the settings “リピート再生” is the loop option, for those that don’t speak Spanish)

While I’ve always had the distant dream of having a website I never thought too hard about it or the actions I could take to have one which I assume is a common situation, kinda like wanting to make a game when you’re a kid or literally wanting to do anything grand when you’re a kid or kinda like wanting to make an MMORPG when you’re a game dev that hasn’t made any games. (Note: I will make the next Club Penguin)

That was until last year where we went all in with the Yuri Kissaten launch and we had a website to go along with it and I had to make it because of course it had to be me.

(That says “I love making websites” for those that don’t speak Japanese)

It starts like any normal first shot at making anything: You’re confused at first but you quickly catch on. I had already attempted to make a website but it was massively different from this, it was a Neocities webpage and I just threw myself there to try and figure it out, had to look up text tutorials, video tutorials, look for templates and I still couldn’t figure things out, I specifically wanted to make a webcomics site but all I’d find was "Yeah for every page I add I go into the site’s code and edit the JavaScript so I can go to the next page and…" and while I put up a fight I ended up giving up, I even emailed the guy that made a script I attempted to use, but me being so coding-illiterate didn’t help, I did get pretty far with that one though, nothing presentable to the public I just got far in understanding how it worked, ended up deleting the whole thing ’cause it was pointless to keep around though.

The Yuri Kissaten site on the other hand was a lot more accessible with the Elementor plugin, it’s drag and drop stuff, which as you can expect it’s limiting and you can’t get too crazy, Elementor in particular has a crapton of features that are paid only, I make do with the basic features and not being able to use the paid ones has only bugged me once, otherwise I don’t even know what the features are because why would I need to check.

However due to being drag and drop, those limited things you can do are VERY easy to do, you can visualize what you’re doing literally as you do it and you don’t have to code a single thing, it not only is like the best introduction to making websites for non-coders but also still very much useful even if you know how to code, it’s simply about making functional, good looking things, very easily (Comparatively as you still need to put in some work to not make it look ugly).

So that old webcomic site that never even went up was my first step into the realization of “damn I already knew it was hard, but actually it’s hardER” then the Yuri Kissaten site was the “ok this is doable and I can truly learn and wrap my head around this” now ultimately with this site I’m a wizard who knows how HTML works (That was a lie, haha, fat chance). I can actually navigate it now though.

So now that I can actually comprehend what’s going on when I open an HTML file I keep thinking random ways to expand, expand, expand. I wanna add a new page for this and that and these and those. I know I will do the obvious characters page that everyone makes for their webcomics, as an example, I might do a story map like Oceanfalls’ except maybe less fancy, like more comprehensible? I appreciate how quirky it is but I think I wanna make it more obvious where you have to click for navigation, I think if I added some not obvious thing it’d be more an easter egg rather than the normal navigation for the story itself.

Apart from webcomic stuff I also want something to display some of my other works, I already have a games tab but there’s still more, I’d make the classic OCs page that every artist has but frankly if it’s not part of an actual series be it webcomic, game, or whatever, chances are the OC isn’t developed enough to have anything to even say about them; I love Susanne but I don’t have anything to say about her beyond what’s already in her posts.

I just know I wanna keep on adding pages, I think sometimes people who own websites forget the infinite power they hold, you can just keep making more and more, there’s no such thing as too many pages on your website, less is less, more is more.