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About The Site

The Beginning

Building a site from scratch had always been daunting to me, but I can pinpoint the moment I no longer felt intimidated by it because my interest in creating my own site became so great it outweighed any doubt I had in myself.

I was browsing Cohost and I saw a post about a personal site, heavenonline.xyz, and I was so mesmerized by the creativity, uniqueness, and personality in it that I needed to make something that expressive myself. I saw that some people they had linked on their site were hosting on Neocities, and I had seen Neocities before but never got into it because I felt that my coding knowledge was not quite there yet in the past, but now I was so ambitious that those thoughts vanished.

Inspirations

Aside from the site listed above, these are other sites that were major inspirations for the creation and direction of ABYSSAL.

Dimden's Hotel - The hotel concept inspired me to make my site feel like a place visitors could rest at. I was also very in awe of Dimden's layout and interactive-ness (click on stuff around the site!).

Grossgirl94 - Grossgirl's site is so punk-rock. I love the digital closet that it is and the pieces of music, art, and journal entries V shares there. It inspired me to also search the more hidden corners of the internet for music.

Cinni's Dream Home - Cinni's website has got a lot of resources and cool things to check out. The name "Dream Home" inspired me to make my own site a place that felt like home, and a place I could retreat to relax in.

Doqmeat - Doqmeat's site is such a cool personal site that clearly has a lot of time and love put into it! The creative ways they share their interests inspired me to do the same, such as with their music page and fun tooltips.

Solaria's Webspace - Solaria's got a ton of really helpful guides and resources that have been so helpful! I also enjoy reading their blog, and it inspired me to start blogging again.

Lost Letters - Lost Letters inspired me to get into pixel art again, with the Afternoon Tea pixel club. I also learned about the Responsive Web Directory through her site, which I plan on joining one day!

Lunospace - This is the site that inspired the desktop theme for my homepage v3! I was wowed by the draggable windows and the styling of everything, and it really spoke to my personal aesthetic as well.

Info

100% Hand-coded

Previewed in Brackets [!]

Hosted on Neocities

Deployed using Burned-Salmon's template

Github Repository

Javascript

I do not have a strong grasp on javascript yet, so anything that uses it on this site is borrowed from people kind enough to share tutorials and snippets online.

Hit and online counter Used: home page

Display last update and visitor count on Neocities by Sadness Used: home page

Font-size and line-height changer by QueenofArms Used: blog page

Lightbox Script by Jasmine Was used: art gallery (not anymore but thought some might want to check it out)

Draggable Div by Ospider on stackoverflow Used: about page

Draggable HTML Content tutorial on w3schools Used: about page

Music Player by Adilene (source code by Sayantanm19) Used: home page

Theme Switcher by Squidknees Used: home and blog pages

Style-my-tooltips by Malihu (git) Used: everywhere