Evolution of my Site

My website, like pretty much everything on the web, didn't just came on the web in this form overnight. It took a really long time for it to actually take shape and become what it is now

It's very first iteration was a Bootstrap 5 website i did when i didn't really had any idea of web design and just wanted something resembling a thing, but i didn't like that at all so eventually i decided to actually make it into something with plain HTML and CSS. No screenshots of the earliest iteration of the website exist so far, although i do have a screenshot of when what is now known as the current version of my site originally started being developed.

A very early iteration of my site
A very early iteration of my website (March 31th, 2023). In my honest opinion this looks a lot more like an actual 1998 website than the more modern blend the current version has..

Early Iterations

My site is still under heavy construction and i was still figuring out the many ways i could apply HTML and CSS in general, although it was also starting to take a bit more shape like for example i was working on the first subpages

I also started working on the music pages, which originally were just a gigantic set of links instead of having the much more elegant player it has now.

My site starting to take a bit more shape
My site starting to take a bit more shape, having it's first subpages and a bit of a more organized layout
The old music sections of my website
The old music sections of my website (July 1st 2023), when it was just a bunch of links.

I did eventually started to make to site a bit prettier, and for example i experimented with customizing the buttons on my site to make them stand out a bit more

The website's older about me page.
The website's older about me page (July 16st 2023), this one resembling it's current iteration a bit more than other pages at the time.

Website starts to take shape

This is where the site started having the sidebar layout it has today, at least in Desktop. Or shall it say everywhere because mobile view wasn't a thing yet ;_;. I also had yet to adjust stuff like the contrast and accessibility stuff to my site at that time, i started doing that later on when a 32-bit Cafe community member gave me a reality check when it comes to that topic one day and i was never the same.

But anyway this is where the site started to pretty much look like how it is today :3

Early version of my site's current layout
Early version of my site's current layout (October 31th 2023), before i adjusted the color's contrast and figured a way to make the borders inside the boxes a lot smoother for example.
Ditto, except showcasing my website's then new music pages
Ditto, except showcasing my website's then new music pages. I eventually changed the player skin into other one because the one i was using before didn't fit well in mobile view even after responsible design was enabled.

Accessibility adjustments,
mobile and dark mode, etc

After i realized that a lot of my website's previous design choices were functionally ableist ;_;, i pretty much went back to fix that stuff, for example adding image descriptions and using alt text in a way that actually helped people who use screen readers.

Adding text descriptions to my about me's images
Adding text description to my about me's images, my fursona's image also has alt text on it too (November 2rd 2023.).

I also started working on the dark mode and phone mode on my site, making it a lot more accessible to a much more wide array of people. Oh and i also finally fixed the corners inside the boxes of the page making them actually round and i finished all the missing pages in my site :3.

Changed the color contrast of my navigation bar to make it more legible in general
Changed the color contrast of my navigation bar to make it more legible in general (November 7th 2023).
Mobile navigation!
Mobile navigation! (Decemer 4st 2023).
The website on it's then recently introduced dark theme.
The website on it's then recently introduced dark theme. (Decemer 5st 2023).

The site's future

My site has come really long way since it started existing, at least it's current iteration. For a few weeks i felt like i didn't had any ideas what to do with it anymore except updating stuff and adding new journal pages but i was told that i could add a RSS feed into my journal to make it more of a proper blog. I also want to experiment with other stuff but I'm not sure how i will manage to pull it off.

BTW, this site would have been pretty much been abandoned if it weren't of people like the ones at the 32-bit Cafe helping me and convincing me at keeping it alive and making it flourish, there were times where i was about to quit and leave this site in to the dust but thanks to the kind words of courage and also just me being stubborn it kept going. So thank you :3