89 lines
5.0 KiB
HTML
89 lines
5.0 KiB
HTML
<!DOCTYPE html>
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<html>
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<head>
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<link type="image/x-icon" rel="icon" href="/images/favicon.ico">
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<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/css/global.css">
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<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="/css/news-template.css">
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<meta charset="utf-8">
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<meta name="description" content="The new site has been created. Horray! Here's what was added.">
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<meta name="keywords" content="That_One_Nerd New Website, New Website">
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<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
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<title>The New Website | That_One_Nerd</title>
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</head>
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<body>
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<div id="title">
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<h1>The New Website</h1>
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</div>
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<div class="line-spacer"></div>
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<div class="line-spacer2"></div>
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<div class="message">
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<p>
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Hi everybody! In January this year I released the first version of thatonenerd.net. Now, almost a year later, I've barely
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touched it. In November I decided to replace the old (and slightly crappy) version of this website with a brand new one.
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It was originally meant to be a one-week project, but ended up, you know, slightly longer. To be honest, I haven't actually
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worked that hard on the website in that time.
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</p>
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<p>
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So, school is a little boring. I've got a ton of time in classes I'm good at. Enough time for me to bring my personal
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laptop to school and work on stuff. That's where most of the website development has been done (along with some other projects,
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including some easy parts of Nerd_STF). But I hit a roadblock 2-3 weeks into development when it became time to make the
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download pages for each project listed. It's not particularly hard, but the problem is that the school's WiFi has blocked
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Itch.IO, where most of my games were. So I couldn't work on it at school anymore, and I didn't feel like working on it at
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home because other projects were calling.
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</p>
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<p>
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And it's still kind of like that. You may notice that (at least at the time of publishing), most of the project pages lead
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to 404s. But I've decided that I'll add those with time. Winter break has given me enough time to wrap everything else about
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the website up. All that's left are the project pages.
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</p>
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<p>
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I was originally going to host this website on my own server. I had a Node.JS server written and working, and I was looking
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into either using my own server with a VPN or getting an online provider, but I decided to stick with GitHub Pages just
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because it's much simpler and more importantly free. I may eventually use a custom server with more capabilities than
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GitHub Pages, but for now that isn't much of a problem.
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</p>
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<p>
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And again, like the last website design, this design has been made with exactly <i>zero</i> website templates or builders.
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I've designed all of this myself. I've written the HTML, the CSS, and the JavaScript by hand. I'm doing this for a couple
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reasons. I've always had more respect for people who make stuff themselves rather than using an existing tool. I think this
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website being made by one person without help is a way to show my skill (and obsession with certain topics). I also don't
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want something I put time into being squandered by a company putting their marketing on it. Lastly, let's be honest. Reading
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the HTML or JavaScript of a template website is really hard. Their code is super difficult to understand, and whether that's
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intentional or a result of automation, I don't like it.
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</p>
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<p>
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So anyway, that's my rant about this website. There's stuff to do, like the project pages as previously said, but I also
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want to remake the About Me page because it could be better (I didn't have any time to remake it as I wanted this to be
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out by Christmas), but overall I think the new website is a definite improvement over the old one.
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<br><br>
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Well, I'll be making more announcements when more project pages are released, or anything else happens (update for Nerd_STF
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or another project, or just other rants). Stay tuned!
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</p>
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<p>
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- Kyle
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</p>
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</div>
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<div class="back">
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<p>Want to read more? <a href="/news.html">See all the news</a></p>
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<p>Done? <a href="/index.html">Head back home</a></p>
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</div>
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<div class="line-spacer"></div>
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<div class="line-spacer2-darkgray"></div>
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</body>
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<script type="module" src="/js/imports.js"></script>
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<script src="/js/global.js" defer></script>
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</html>
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