It's been decades since I built a web page. Last time was in the day of Geocities, but even by the standards of those days, my web page, the one I made back then was very...basic. This one will be about the same.
My first webpage was all HTML, no CSS, and I coded it up on Notepad, one line at a time, with the aid of a Web Pages for Dummies book. Given its crude beginning, that page was serviceable and not overly eye-bleeding to look at.
The next iteration included a bit of CSS and I started with more of a plan. Where "plan" means making a mock-up version of my page in Photoshop. Then I took the graphic elements, chopped them up and positioned them on my new page.
Several years went by and WordPress came along. Consequently, my next webpages were little more than free WordPress templates with a few minor color and font changes.
So, at this point, in the year 2026, what few HTML and CSS skillz I had, have gone the way of, well, GeoCities and the old-school web. While my lazy ass definitely like the push-button ease of setting up and updating a WordPress website, one out-of-the-box anyway, it sucks that the part of my brain that catalogued a few dozen HTML commands has shriveled from disuse.
Where previously, I used to, at bare minimum, create the bones of my pages on my computer and test them there (or use WordPress's preview function), before posting anything, now I'm basically writing and testing everything live. Because this is a for me, for fun page.
It would be nice if someone stumbles on my page (hopefully in a more finished stage) and enjoys it and perhaps visits regularly. The point of this exercise, however, is to carve out a little, isolated outpost on the web and play with web page design while also creating a shrine to things I love.
~AdobeDragon, 19 August 2026