Not Just Maps Are Coming!

So: Right now at every free moment I'm cramming as much words and markups into this website, as I possible can think of, before I have to go back to work. And frankly I have a good time in here, you guys are awesome, thanks for messages on e-mail and my guestbook, that's really makes my days!

What actually will come up on this site? Writing stuff for shrines and articles goes very easy, adding old maps and drawings (yes, my new (un)hidden page is Not Just Maps, just a few images so far) take a couple minutes and I need to do it on the computer to find and prepare stuff, but those are all bread and butter tasks so it goes smoothly.

However, improving the technical side of this website goes in no sensible direction, I want to make that layout more scalable (easy adding new pages to the navbar) and neat (some cool themes switcher, accesibility toggles, ideas that could make that god awful blue bar feel like an useful control hub), that goes nowhere, but I'm trying my best. 😴

On the sidenote, completely new maps are cooking, it's takes a while. You can see my brand new real world map in Zamość shrine! That's just an image, no interactivity, so far.

New hidden pages and I made my buttons!

My brand new buttons are available at Links subpage in two versions: animated gif and static png! I gotta check how to make them easy to download without some neocities restrictions regarding hotlinking, I'm still poor non-supporter of the host so yeah, please do not hotlink I guess.

In the meantime I made some testing/blank pages for new content, so if I keep the pace, all of that will be nicely organized and available right before the new year 🎉🎇

Christmas is coming :lastchristmasisplaying:

Dabbling with Christmas themes and such, I have no clue what I'm doing, let's see how much people will notice that lmao. Lights png was for free and I added glowing effect with Gimp, but I see it's too dim and there is some dirt on bulbs lol.

Also 6 new maps dropped, 2 small maps were removed and combined into one map to save space and have some fun with Inkscape.

Constant unfocused updates

I'm just adding links, buttons and correcting typos once in a while, all day, from my phone. If only I could do something more substantial. Also, I dropped a bunch of new maps that are more than 14 years old, nice.

Landing page trimmed and illustrated

I moved personal stuff to the page About&Guestbook, the guestbook is inside the iframes now and I added that slider with my maps that acts as direct links to them at the top of the index page. I hope it'll make the thumbnail of my site a bit more colorful. Not that many content added tho, I do more of a mindless html polishing than creating, although it's quite relaxing and unchallenging.

The only thing that I added to the page about the actual Lankarta Project is the paragraph about feature of the app that will allow to create map timelines, it's not even well phrased but it's something at least.

Plans for 2025 and I need a button

I was on a spree on activity page on Neocities to find some actively updated, nicely decorated and maybe even thematically similar websites to mine. I got some more buttons that I put here and response on guestbook of Introverted Loser website, thank you! This reminds me that I got to make my own button, perhaps animated with some floating map or globe maybe, so it'll fit better on button walls of anybody that would like to link to my silly site.

I also added some placeholders for new content that I wish I will make in 2025. So many ideas, but time flies too fast.

Pages are getting split

New page Shrines is dedicated solely to my shrines that were previously on Links and Shrines page. Each shrine will get its own unique style, at least when I find some time. I've moved sections about music, movies and whatnot to the index page, although all the personal stuff will eventually go to 'Personal' or 'About Webmaster' subpage.

The bad news is there is not that much more content, my second article is not finished, shrines are not finished and that navbar is even more not finished.

First article

My first article in 'Articles' page, nothing special, just some quick thought about geography knowledge. I also wrote a hefty paragraphs in 'Links and Shrines' page, specifically about Zamość and SimCity 4. Maybe if I add more shrines, I might move each of those to separate pages. The 'Articles' page still needs major template revamp, especially if I want to write more.

I think my website doesn't have any visitors (except me probably) because my front page is not colorful, that's my style actually but for the sake of making the miniature more enticing I'll add a small horizontal slider with my maps 200px height just below the 'Hi There' window. I'm also trying to join some webrings too.

Articles coming soon

The subsite called previously 'Project Updates' and 'Updates', now it's going to be 'Articles' as updates was moved here on the landing page inside the iframe. Articles will be actual articles about random stuff that I found interesting or decide to expand a bit. No more page dedicated solely on the topic of "oh I just moved some button a pixel or two", even tho I'm just exaggerating.

Two things to add: actually working button that moves back page to the top and dark/light color theme switcher.

A bulk of new subpages

I keep my pace of adding new stuff on that silly site, including addition of at least 20 new maps and I finally divided the longest page 'My Maps' into more organized subpages. The technical structure of the site is not great as the navbar is too primitive to display that many subsites elegantly. I'm also thinking about adding the button that moves the viewer back to the top of the page on mobile screens as the sites with maps tend to be long.
The Lankarta project itself is not even close to start sadly.

More and more minor upgrades on Lankarta Project page

Basically I'm here more often than usually, organizing the lists and descriptions. Within a week I added a bunch of new maps and one screenshot of another idea for an app. Yet still, everything is tilted and badly adjusted when it comes to styling. Even though all the other major pages of this site gain a lot of fairly structured content, this page desperately needs dedicated stylesheet and much more updates and action.

New Logo (it's bad tho)

How to make it not skewed, graphic design without the mouse is wrong, without designing skills even worse. It's so bad that I still haven't decide to place it as the favicon.