links & resources
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First, if you want to link back to me, here's my site button again:
Some cool sites to browse:
I have my Neocities profile turned off, so these aren't friends/follows or anything. Sometimes I switch them out just because I feel like it.
Fun stuff
Persona 3 Web archive snapshot of the original promotional site from, like, 2006. Linked on my homepage too
The bizarre, true story of Metal Gear Solid’s English translation Really interesting if you like reading about localization. No knowledge of MGS required
What football will look like in the future
Wild Bread it's bread on the ground babey
The Chaos Classic poem about crazy english pronunciation
SUNDOWN My personal favorite short film on youtube simply because I found so much to like about the cast in 5 minutes
Balamb Garden Final Fantasy VIII fansite
vgperson games get some RPGmaker games in your system. it's good for the heart
Resources for making your own site
I'm sort of just going to assume you're using Neocities because it's easy, but there are plenty of other options out there. Mostly I'm gathering these here for people who might be a bit intimidated by the initial setup. It does not have to be that bad. Take my hand
Absolute beginner's guide to Neocities
sadgrl's layout builder The baseline for my current layout. Everyone knows this one already but that's because it's EASY and it WORKS!!
sadgrl layouts if you want a premade one
Zonelets Easy tool for blogging on Neocities. You can also use this as the initial framework for your layout and the blog is already built in
status cafe For the status widget on my main page. Worth mentioning that if you forget your password or something (I did) the person who runs it is really nice and you can literally just email them for help. I keep seeing people mourning their forgotten accounts. Just send an email brother!!
Hit counter tutorial I like this one because it pulls directly from your Neocities stats. It's a little extra work, but the tutorial explains each step in detail.
FC2 Counter Cuter and easier to implement, but not as accurate and kind of annoying to fiddle with
Smart Guestbook Free customizable guestbook. I don't have one for my site because I don't want people all up in my business. But I could if I so desired
How to Center in CSS Yeah
W3Schools Free place to learn how to code. I just use it to look up how to do stuff
Visual Studio Code If you never do anything else with code ever like me and have been coding directly into Neocities PLEASE love yourself and download a code editor. Live preview extension is my beautiful wife. I promise it's worth it. take my hand
Misc resources
Todoist Online planner. I use this religiously and my favorite part about it is that it picks up dates automatically as you type them in
Ellipsus An alternative to Google Docs that I've been liking a lot so far. Unfortunately no mobile app, but it works perfectly fine in-browser
Onelook Thesaurus Search for words by description
The StoryGraph Sort of like a more modern Goodreads?
Bookshop.org Order books online here and support independent bookstores!
The Spriters Resource Ripped video game sprites. I got some of the graphics on my site from here
removebg Easily make images transparent
This to That Find out the best way to glue A to B
uBlock Origin Banish ads forever. If you have an android you CAN use this with firefox mobile btw
