svnsettia

i think i got banned from neocities this morning??? i refreshed the page, and was suddenly logged out. it didn't let me log back in, so i tried visiting my site to see if there was anything wrong with it--and it was gone! nothing there! i sent the link to my friends to have them double check it on their own devices. same result.

what happened was this: i'm very new to coding, and i like to learn by copying code from other sites and tinkering with it. i use a neocities html file that's entirely inaccessible from my website to add, remove, or modify parts of the code, then i run it to see what changed. this morning i thought i'd try to copy an entire webpage, which was over 10,000 lines of code, and see if i could reduce it to its bare essentials. i wanted to see how many lines of code i could remove until it became nothing but a template with some nonsense text on it, that way i could properly understand how everything worked.

then i started having problems saving the code and viewing it as a webpage. it became unresponsive, so i refreshed the page and was redirected to the neocities homepage. you know the rest.

i contacted support to tell them what happened and try to get my account back. hopefully it was just an issue of the spam filter malfunctioning and accidentally flagging me. but it's dicey because i did steal the code for an entire webpage, which could get me into some trouble for copyright. i also have "dyke" in my profile name, which could be flagged as hate speech.

hopefully i can get my account back soon! i've probably spent around 100 hours working on it.

aside from being banned from neocities and losing a lot of my work (i only backed up half of it), the rest of my morning has been crazy too--i missed the bus and was 15 minutes late to my doctor appointment, which they counted as a no-show and charged a cancellation fee for. rats! i was at the bus stop on time, but i missed the bus because i zoned out and didn't notice that it came and went without me. and it was unexpectedly hot outside! it's october, so i wore sweatpants.. only to find out that the weather today is perfect for a day trip to the nude beach. i was sweating a lot, and my phone started overheating so the battery drained really fast. i was worried that i wouldn't be able to call the doctor to give them a heads up that i'd be late, but they ended up calling me while i was on the bus to ask where i was. when i told them i'd be 15 minutes late, they cancelled my appointment. by the time i arrived, there were still 15 minutes left of my appointment! i'm not sure why they didn't let me see the doctor for those 15 minutes. the appointment really should not have taken that long, since i already saw a nurse to refer me to the doctor, and all i needed was a referral to the psychiatrist. why do i need to see a nurse to refer me to the doctor to refer me to the psychiatrist?! just let me see the psychiatrist, goddamn it!

all things considered, today hasn't been that bad though. i'm feeling okay because i feel close to god rn, and i've finally gotten enough sleep for the first time in a while.

update: my neocities account was restored!

heads and bodies

so it turns out the reason i've been struggling to transfer code from the coding site to dreamwidth or gmail is that these platforms don't use "head" "body" or "class" functions. i got around that by putting all the formatting stuff under "div" "p" or "span." it isn't the greatest, because it makes my documents very messy, but it works!

this time i'm gonna
experiment some more with
boxes
while practicing
things i already
know, such as:

fonts and colours

lists

hyperlinks

hm. it's strange that last time i made boxes, they stretched to accomodate
text, but this time, it didn't. i wonder if it's because i defined dimensions
for the text. let me see if that's the case:

woah. this isn't what i thought would happen.

i learned something just now though!

when i defined the length and width for the first div, i also defined where
the next div would start. that's why there was overlap!

now i want to figure out how to do it on purpose. i originally wanted to learn how to use images as backgrounds in this post,
but it's good that i ran into this problem so i can deepen my understanding of
html and how it works.

woaahh!!! i did it! so basically what i did was i made the div above this one 15px tall, and then i typed a lot to make the text taller than 15 pixels.

this just looks like a big disaster, but it was very educational for me. in the next post, i'll try to make boxes with images as the backgrounds.

<!DOCTYPE html>

<html>

<body>

this time i'm gonna

<span style="font-family:georgia;color:gray">experiment some more with </span>

<span style="font=family:garamond;color:brown">boxes </span>

<span style="font-family:arial;color:red">while practicing </span>

<span style="font-family:verdana;color:orange">things i already </span>

</p>

<li style="font-family:courier new;color:green">fonts and colours</li>

<li style="font-family:lucida console;color:blue">lists</li>

<li style="font-family:monaco; color:purple"><a href=https://www.dreamwidth.org/circle/svnsettia/edit?action=subscribe target=_blank>hyperlinks</a></li>

</ul>

<span style="font-family:lucida handwriting;color:pink">hm. it's strange that last time i made boxes, they stretched to accomodate </span>

<span style="font-family:arial; color:orange">text, but this time, it didn't. i wonder if it's because i defined dimensions</span>

for the text. let me see if that's the case:</p>

</div>

<p>woah. this isn't what i thought would happen.</p>

</div>

<p>i learned something just now though!</p>

<div>

<p style="font-size:9px;font-family:helvetica">;when i defined the length and width for the first <div>, i also defined where
the next div would start. that's why there was overlap!</</p>

</div>

<p style="font-size:10px">now i want to figure out how to do it on purpose. i originally wanted to learn how to use images as backgrounds in this post,

but it's good that i ran into this problem so i can deepen my understanding of

html and how it works.</p>

</div>

<div>

<p style="font-family:arial;font-size:13px;color:#d4afeb">woaahh!!! i did it! so basically what i did was i made the div above this one 15px tall, and then i typed a lot to make the text taller than 15 pixels. </p>

</div>

<div>in the next post, i'll try to make boxes with images as the backgrounds.</div>

</body>

</html>

today i started learning html on codecademy because i want to have more control over formatting on dreamwidth and emails! penpalling (both email and snail mail) is one of my favourite hobbies, so i want to get better at making my emails look nice.

i want to try out/show off some things i learned! such as:

how to make a list
how to bold and italicize text (i already knew how though!)
i didn't learn this from codecademy; i already knew it from tumblr, but ~~strikethrough~~
how to use commands like <body>, <div>, and <p>. dreamwidth seems to not like those commands though.

i also know how to add images and videos! here's a gif i like:

. and here it is again, but a little bigger:

i think that i've already absorbed some very basic/common commands just by messing around with html makers as i try to embed little gifs into my own dreamwidth posts. i was also exposed to some snippets of html while following "how to edit your tumblr theme" tutorials in the 2010s. i learned how to edit (but not create) css codes on myspace in 2021, so that's also been somewhat helpful as i start to approach html.

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