coding update

September 12, 2025

note: bigger blogpost to document thoughts and progress on understanding what the hell im doing here.

i created three buttons the other day with html and css after taking a look at sadgirlonline’s button maker and taking a screenshot of my results to put into the asset folder. the button maker has a feature to make an image of the button, but i find it to be low quality and currently the screenshot method captures what i want. however this method does involve painstakingly adjusting the parameters of the capture box.

i have a desire to make my website mostly accessible and responsive to different screen sizes. it was so wonderful figuring out how to add the frog house to the mobile screen. right now, i’m mostly satisfied with how my website looks on my laptop screen and my phone.

however, everytime i come across a cool website with a cool layout (which happens frequently, daily), i want to learn how to recreate it for learning purposes.

the other day, i stumbled upon a treasure trove of pngs and image editing resources. i’d like to make my website “pages” more scrapbook-like in nature. the base code was taken from john doe (more information on credits) so the “pages” are in fact sections that are called to be displayed. right now, there is one (1) section cosmetically defined with the grid background. i want to add options to what the section can look like. obviously, i can make separate html files with its own customization, however. what if i make things harder for myself.

it’s so lovely being about to view page source and frankenstein code, but starting from scratch with a blank html file gives me a high too lol.

eventually, what i’d like to do with the blog is to add tags for dates and subject. right now, i’m typing all this shit into the one (1) html file. as this website grows, i dont think this method would be very sustainable for me.

i started my coding journey at 11yo with html and css, but most of it has been with python. i miss my if else statements LOL. i know javascript has those. that’ll be something for later.

questions for me to solve:

1. what is a static site generator and what does it mean

answer: here

2. why can’t i have a sun as my custom website cursor

seems like a cursor needs to be a specific size to function as a cursor and the transparent pngs i’d like to use lose quality when i resize them. cursors4u has fruit and i picked out a lime :)

3. how can i hide the previous section when a new section is targetted?

make a splash screen that’s smaller than any exising section. which does not answer my question, but does solve a problem i had. which was a box from #home showing up on #about because #about’s height was shorter than #home.