Website To-Do List
I wanted a Neocities site but I don't really know what to do, so I have this to-do list to track all of the goals I want to reach with this site.
In vague order:
- Start learning HTML
- Start learning CSS
- Brainstorm site purpose
- Brainstorm a site-wide theme
Ideas I need for the theme:
- Color scheme (background and foreground colors, font colors, header, etc.)
- Fonts (headers, body text, subtitles, blabla)
- Blobs, squares, or other shapes? How do I want containers to look? Do I want containers? What will my buttons look like? Lots of research on other Neocities will be done here
- UI scale... I want this to look good on my CRT monitor, so should I make the buttons larger to make it easier to see, or do I make it small to maximize space and work under the idea that if you want stuff to be bigger, you can just zoom into the webpage? Second option might be the way to go.
Places to look at for inpsiration
Inspirations
Current ideas
- Make light use of distortion in graphics and titles (see beams.co.jp)
- Make use of HTML code AND file address naming conventions (e.g. C:\user\gapwood\file.txt as decorative text near a link leading to file.txt)
- Repeating shapes...
- The whole website should be heavy in Photoshopped graphics, with containers and UI elements being made partially in Illustrator.
- In-browser music player a la WebAmp or the music player on the Sticky Fingers site. If I can figure out a way to embed the WebAmp player into my site, I might be able to have a feature to change skins... maybe even that ugly Mountain Dew skin that I downloaded.