An Actual Design™ #13

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eggy · 2022-09-01T16:53:31-04:00

eggy commented

2022-09-01 16:53:31 -04:00

So.

A brief retrospective.

Eggworld was first launched in October of 2019. At the time, it was a sparse site with nothing but handwritten HTML. This site was used for NaNoWriMo that year and was very light on CSS and JavaScript (intentionally, because frankly I still don’t like JavaScript).

The only changes were the Stories section for Unstagnation 2020 and 2021 as well as a small dark mode toggle.

Fortunately, I came to my senses after copy-pasting one too many Unstagnation Shorts, and moved to Eleventy so I could do it all in Markdown instead. You could call this v2 of Eggworld.

To be honest, I didn’t really want to keep the domain I’d registered so long ago, but at that point so many services (particularly server services) were dependent on the domain and changing it would be a huge hassle. It’s not actually that hard to change — if I had to, I could just push site hosting to GitHub Pages. That’d have better uptime, anyway. But I digress.

Recently — very recently, judging by my calendar — I pushed a little more work to make my website a little more palatable. A home page here, some touch-ups there, but ultimately no content or design changes. This was v3 of Eggworld.

(Actually, I should still serve my old sites. It’d be a nice retrospective.)

However, now that the real world calls, things must change. I cannot remain psuedo-anonymous (why even bother hiding social links and names when they’re all on GitHub?), and it’s time that my website develops a personality. Its own style. Unfortunately, that has been the one thing I have always been utter crap at. Design is hard, you know! Implementation? Piece of cake.

This calls back to the complacency Unstagnation Short just last year, which is comical because this seems to happen every year.

So. A brief retrospective. Eggworld was first launched in October of 2019. At the time, it was a sparse site with nothing but handwritten HTML. This site was used for NaNoWriMo that year and was *very* light on CSS and JavaScript (intentionally, because frankly I still don't like JavaScript). The only changes were the Stories section for Unstagnation 2020 and 2021 as well as a small dark mode toggle. Fortunately, I came to my senses after copy-pasting one too many Unstagnation Shorts, and moved to Eleventy so I could do it all in Markdown instead. You could call this v2 of Eggworld. To be honest, I didn't really want to keep the domain I'd registered so long ago, but at that point so many services (particularly server services) were dependent on the domain and changing it would be a huge hassle. It's not actually *that* hard to change — if I had to, I could just push site hosting to GitHub Pages. That'd have better uptime, anyway. But I digress. Recently — very recently, judging by my calendar — I pushed a little more work to make my website a little more palatable. A home page here, some touch-ups there, but ultimately no content or design changes. This was v3 of Eggworld. (Actually, I should still serve my old sites. It'd be a nice retrospective.) However, now that the real world calls, things must change. I cannot remain psuedo-anonymous (why even bother hiding social links and names when they're all on GitHub?), and it's time that my website develops a personality. Its own style. Unfortunately, that has been the one thing I have always been utter crap at. Design is hard, you know! Implementation? Piece of cake. This calls back to the complacency Unstagnation Short just last year, which is comical because this seems to happen every year.

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