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19 November 2014
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I think I want to make a web page.  After all, SDF does also provide web 
hosting, in addition to this Gopherspace.  Of course, HTML is a damn sight 
more complicated than a gophermap --- this is, after all, just a text 
file.

No matter what, my web page will certainly have that "Babby's First 
Website" look to it.  God knows I don't really remember any HTML, and I 
didn't know CSS back in like 2001.  Plus, a quick look through W3C's 
tutorials indicates that a lot of the "styling" HTML from ages ago isn't 
valid in HTML5.  So CSS is clearly the way to go.

Hell, it'll look better than the web page I ginned up in Law School.  
Center aligned, with some images and a quick text walk-through on 
numbering pages in Word.  Useful information --- these days, it would 
likely be found in a 20-minute Youtube video.  God forbid we express 
information with the written word, I guess.  Instead, we need to make a 
video for something!  Then again, in terms of simple, user created 
content, a video is far easier to make and share.  There aren't Geocities 
and Angelfires anymore.  Posting a textual guide or how-to on Pastebin is 
very obviously not what it was intended for.  In theory, you could use 
Tumblr and just write, but something about that seems off (and also 
somewhat cumbersome to navigate).  So I suppose I understand, but I 
certainly don't like it.

Not to say that I'm writing a website to provide guidance or how-tos: I 
don't possess any special knowledge to impart.  Hell, I'm really just 
going to do it because I want to.  Also, because even just a tumblr theme 
is full of convoluted code that's well beyond me.  But building a site 
from the ground up feels like a natural way to learn what the hell I'm 
doing.  And while it isn't a /proper/ way to learn, learning how to build 
a site by looking up what I want to do is still a valid way.  It is rather 
restrictive, though.  The obviously foreseeable drawback is the gaps in my 
knowledge due to things I didn't want or need to know to achieve my 
immediate purpose.

Well, we'll see how it works.  I'll also need to figure out how to upload 
stuff to my SDF space, I guess.  First, I'll worry about ginning up a 
sitemap, backbone CSS, and testing it locally.  Thank god for 
TextWrangler, I guess.  It was that or I guess an ancient copy of BBEdit.

Hell, I'd be doing that if I had my G4 set up.  Sadly, the only desktop 
computer I have handy and (relatively) ready-to-go is an early G3 iMac. 
350 furious megahertz of processing capability!  . . . It doesn't hold a 
candle to my G4 Cube and 1.5GB of RAM. That thing in OS9 is pretty 
beastly, relatively speaking.

Well, time to get to reading and typing and plotting, I suppose!