Idea: Have our own neocities website

[ciro64]

Here we could:

• Give spotlight to content made by this community such as art, twitch and youtube channels and articles. This can either come as part of their own gallery, or part of a news feed
• Users from this forum could either have their own custom homepage inside that site, or a link to their own neocities website.

Why neocities?

There's a community of people who uses neocities. They tend to be lgbt-accepting, very creative with stuff, may have similar tastes to us and a similar age as well, some of them are probably horny like some of us, the whole old web atmosphere is very appealing.

Neocities sites can be browsed and featured here, possibly gaining us new members.

Also, editing raw HTML is fun (for me at least).

We can also have a micro banner of our on and share them with other websites, like these ones:

 

[Cheela]

LOVE THE IDEA <333
ALSO PERSONAL WEBSITES GO HAND IN HAND WITH FORUMS

 

[deebo]

I support it! I like this direction!! I need to get working on my own neocities page too... We can rebuild the old web by participating in it again!!

 

[Ranmyaku Ichi]

+1 for the idea, I love it!

 

[ciro64]

I'm happy you guys are digging the idea!

I'm wondering how to go about the layout... mimic this one, go for the old web or retro aesthetic, or somehow try to mix the two?

 

[ciro64]

I sketched this as an idea for the site UI, meant to be a surreal mix between this site's appearance and an old operating system, in full pixel art glory. Will do more later.



Some insight about how it could be implemented in CSS:

• Using images as borders in CSS I can do UI that uses sprites
• Using some trickery in FontForge it's probably possible to force a bitmap font to be shown for some. Although it's impossible to make it happen in every system and browser.
• Customizing a scrollbar isn't part of web standard, so that will require some javascript trickery

 

[ciro64]

That being said, I'm still thinking about other ideas of visuals too and open to ideas.

 

[GardeniaSky]

I sketched this as an idea for the site UI, meant to be a surreal mix between this site's appearance and an old operating system, in full pixel art glory. Will do more later.

View attachment 1349

Some insight about how it could be implemented in CSS:

• Using images as borders in CSS I can do UI that uses sprites
• Using some trickery in FontForge it's probably possible to force a bitmap font to be shown for some. Although it's impossible to make it happen in every system and browser.
• Customizing a scrollbar isn't part of web standard, so that will require some javascript trickery

I want to lick it

 

[ciro64]

Using some trickery in FontForge it's probably possible to force a bitmap font to be shown for some. Although it's impossible to make it happen in every system and browser.

After trying, this seems to be even more limited than I thought.

Might as well go full maniac mode and render everything in a canvas using Javascript...

 

[ciro64]

Looked at the Neocities subreddit... seems like a dead-ish place at first, but when someones posts a cool website, it can get like 150 or 200 likes :O

Making this will be my next major goal!

 

[ciro64]

I sketched this as an idea for the site UI, meant to be a surreal mix between this site's appearance and an old operating system, in full pixel art glory. Will do more later.

View attachment 1349

Some insight about how it could be implemented in CSS:

• Using images as borders in CSS I can do UI that uses sprites
• Using some trickery in FontForge it's probably possible to force a bitmap font to be shown for some. Although it's impossible to make it happen in every system and browser.
• Customizing a scrollbar isn't part of web standard, so that will require some javascript trickery

Here's a update, I added some shading:



I'm getting excited about this!... gives me nds vibes.