museum for my musings

welcome! this is where i am learning how to create a website while exploring my creativity. inspired by the idea of digital gardening - i came across this concept and learned more from Maggie Appleton's essay. There are a ton of good tidbits and other links to information about how to make it work. First thing i learned about digital gardening is that there it is not about posting a finished product or page, but encourages the idea that you can make changes or evolve your work in a public and transparent manner. so with that, here i am - a blank canvas of a website, shallow understanding of HTML, and an influx of thoughts and ideas that i am tired of only having in my mind. i want to create and i want to learn; i know i can do both.

goals

1. develop a theme - watercolor appearance? light, airy, floral adjacent, drawing style imagery - what does a museum of my mind look like? its not an empty white box, i know that much. its filled with sunlight and plants. each room has its own vibe. its own energy.
2. develop standard tags for each entry
3. figure out how to remember or keep track of coding language
4. keep learning

ideas

• museum themed - exhibits, showings,"under construction"?, the studio, atrium, learning annex, museum map, tickets, gift shop, lecture series, outdoor exhibitions, etc.
• need names for various exhibit spaces for things with similar ideas - linking in and sharing similar things from others.
• can i use free domain imagery? like classic art? how to make frames around art?
• place for my sketches, chs building images idea
• possibly add in my writings or book ideas? would this be the place to develop those? what would a writing room at a museum be called?
• restroom and that would have like my makeup bag, words on the street, what's on my counter, things you would say to your friends in front of the mirror
• lecture series - either my own lectury thoughts or maybe lectures i attend? notes on those and the research i do after?
• oo what do museums call their food options? dining halls? eh. i would like a place to showcase either food i make or more likely, food i eat around town. that would be more like a food exhibit though. i like that.
• guest book? maybe thats where people can leave comments or something?
• reflection pond
• have a map of the museum and then images that link to differnt pages - maybe current exhibit of that room? or hmm. what does that look like with the lens of digital gardening? maybe there is a margin of "past exhibits" that show similar pages..?
• self guided tour booklet? pamphlet? explains what i am trying to create or explains how digital gardening works?
• each page has a unique background for the room that the exhibit or whatnot is in. think single point perspective drawing of a room, oo yes - and then in each room, there are interactive images, like tchotchkes on shelves or paintings on the walls, like there used to be in interactive pc games, and you click on those and it takes you to individual pages

HTML Learning Notes

look! i can write in italics and in bold

i can also add in images

ran into a little bit of an issue.. i can upload it to my neocities directory and if i use the whole URL for the image, it works, but not if i link it as src="/discoball.png", it end up with like a broken link looking image.. i followed the directions in the little neoities tutorial, so not sure what that is about.

the online tutorial I am learning from can be found here.

in addition to (or maybe instead of) the above tutorial, i am reading a book by Jon Duckett about HTML & CSS from 2011, but i dont think the basics are changing anytime soon. i have had it for nearly that long, so i might as well use it and enjoy the ease of reading it and updating this site without switching windows etc. it has followed roughly the same information thus far, so i'm basically picking up where i left off from the online tutorial.

i learned how to make a title, which is the words up in the tabs, or at the top of the browser, not directly in the webpage. it is embedded within the header, which is information about the page, not information that shows up written on the page.

okay, so i am also saving a backup copy of my code with the text edit app, but when. i try to open that file (saved as .html) in my web browser, it just shows the code, it doesn't actually run it.. but the code works through my website host... i hope i can figure that out eventually. but for now, it's at least a backup that i can copy and paste if i need.

also, at what point to i start adding in the attribute for the language? it will tell the computer what language you are writing in.. i would like to make my site easy to translate. it says languge attribute can be used on any element..