About my site(s)
About
This site is for showcasing who I am (nerd interested in plants and visual design), what I made (mostly design), and what I enjoy (art, music, and other websites). Discrete personal sites can be more ethical, simple, and fun than social media (especally if you have things to show off or visit sites from content creators), but I'm here mostly for fun, not to be "nostalgic" over something I barely got to experience.
Some History
Before Neocities, I used to have 2 different sites in total. The first ever one was hosted on Google Sites around early 2021? and was called Credia Graphics, which was about my designs, back when I used Pixlr. While a good amount of graphics survive to now, the site's archive is quite scuffed, with broken images and a weird tendency to refresh itself constantly. A few screenshots survive, though.
Around July 2021, I got sick of Google Sites and decided to switch to Eclipse Graphics. I envisioned to be part of Eclipse.cx, since I designed its logo, and I could get some free hosting. It had some content from the Credia Graphics era, but by that point, I switched to Figma, due to its better support for vectors and its ease of use. On March 2022, I got tired of it, and got it taken down. This time, it was actually archived well.
Around December 2022, Kantraa, with my help, decided to create a site about Frutiger Aero based on a series of tutorials I posted on Reddit. He also encouraged me to start a personal site, and on Dec 31, 2022, this site was launched, where it is still active today.
Other Information
Credits
Site Background:
Solarpunk - Guillaume Tisserant
Profile Picture:
Memory - Zhichao Cai (second in gallery)
Layout Changelog
2024-3-17: Added plants section.
2024-2-25: Started work on full design archive.
2024-2-19: Changed "Comments" on navbar back to "Guestbook".
2024-1-27: Updated gallery with more designs from the archives. 1st 2024 design on gallery coming soon...
2023-12-29: Created resized thumbnail images for gallery instead of reusing full resolution imgs.
2023-12-10: Changed "Guestbook" on navbar to "Comments".
2023-11-24: Swapped position of favorites and intrests/likes on main page.
2023-11-18: Seperated "Other Sites" to "Art sites" and the actual "Other sites" (if that makes sense).
2023-11-12: Added subpage navigation hover/focus effects.
2023-11-11: Revamped subpage navigation. Slight accessibility update (added nav semantic HTML element).
2023-11-7: Added line seperating subpage links and description text in projects page and links page. proper subpage navigation coming likely never.
2023-10-28: Finished commissions page, minor CSS changes.
2023-10-26: Added commissions page (WIp), added subpages to design and links page on top.
2023-9-7: Added art gallery, renamed "contact/links" to "links/other" and added other site pages there.
2023-6-6: Changed PFPs from City of the Eastern Crest - Victoria Gee to Memory - Zhichao Cai.
2023-6-5: Formatted favorites list into bullet points, changed contnt width.
2023-5-7: Rearranged links.
2023-4-29: Added skeuomorphism-related sites, split contact and other accounts on links page.
2023-4-28: Made changelog scrollable, made custom scrollbar.
2023-4-23: Updated flexbox for buttons.
2023-4-15: Updated CSS for nav items.
2023-4-14: Changed links page layout so personal sites are in a different "window".
2023-4-8: Added Eclipse Graphics themed gallery for old projects.
2023-4-6: Removed autoplaying music (Hiroshi Yoshimura - Wet Land (Album, 1993)) from main page.
2023-3-22: Made fonts larger, changed responsive sizing. Minor changes to styling.
2023-3-19: Categorized non-button links
2023-3-13: Changed responsive CSS
2023-3-4: Changed "neat links" to "contact/links"
2023-2-26: Updated about page to have a short history of my websites
2023-2-21: Changed the code for button embed to have a background
2023-2-18: Changed "links" to "neat links", updated titles on mobile
2023-2-12: Changed BG from ue5: blueprints relight by yui to Solarpunk by Guillaume Tisserant, made content bgs more transparent
2023-2-3: Added favs, changed "contact" to "links" and moved link collection there. CSS Media Query updated to work better on mobile
2023-1-30: Darkened glass textures
2023-1-22: Changed button img
2023-1-21: Linked project images to full size images or sites
2023-1-21: Added Changelog (entries before this may not be fully accurate)
Before 2023-1-10: Added Guestbook
2022-12-31: Site Launch
Yes I use ISO Date format here deal with it