Content! 10/9/2025
I didn't learn much over the last week, so this isn't so much an update about what I've learned in web programming as it is just an update with some content you might like! Although admittedly, I jumped ahead of the lessons so I could figure out how to narrow the paragraphs so you don't have to strain your eyes looking all the way left all the way over to the right. Don't worry, that was bugging me, too. So I learned just enough to know that paragraph elements are more finicky towards being forced into how you want it to display, and that div elements are the better way to ultimately structure your content. Good to know!
So go check out that new content! I even added a link at the top of the page so you can get right to it. I know a proper sitemap like what you see on really well done websites is a long ways off for me, but for now we'll keep a "topbar" for links to other areas of the site. There's a topbar on that page that'll bring you back here, so it's not a one-way trip. I gotchu, boo! So go look at it! What are you waiting for? What is "Amy vs The World"? Go find out! Go on! Git! Shoo!
Learning more and more! 10/3/2025
I learned a ton more today about CSS since there were some introductory lessons of it in the HTML tutorials of W3Schools. So while I haven't yet learned how to properly structure webpages still, I did learn a lot on how to color and setup elements in the page to give them backgrounds, borders, and spacing, so that's the big one you get to see in today's update. I still don't like the gaps without color between paragraphs but I'm sure there's a way to fix that, as well. Just a matter of getting to that lesson.
On the personal side of things, I finally got a new job after over two months of joblessness. It's not glamorous and not glamorously paying, but it's still money, it's hours I wanted, and it's in an industry I've never worked in before, which is exciting because that means it's a job where I'll be learning a lot and also it'll get my foot in the door of perhaps better-paying and much cushier jobs in the future! For now, however, it's the learning process. I won't let having a job get in the way of working on this website (I started it while unemployed); on the contrary, since the job will not be requiring massive amounts of overtime, I'll be home at a decent time with plenty of leisure time to work on the projects that are important to me, this website included. There's a lot more I want to do and share on here, including links and stories and lots of other ideas.
So thanks for stopping by again, and in the meantime, don't forget that I stream on Twitch whenever I can and WHOA WAIT A MINUTE WHAT WAS THAT!? Yeah, click on that again! I also learned how to make links load in a new tab for you! See? I'm learning cool stuff every time I update, like that cool icon that loads up on the tab now! All right, I'll see you later, but hopefully much sooner this time!
Site update - new webspace! 9/15/2025
I've been a bit busy with offline stuff and a couple other projects I'm working on simultaneously and I haven't devoted a lot of my time to finishing up the HTML classes on W3Schools and moving on to learning CSS, but what I did do yesterday is make Neocities my new base of operations. As someone who misses the halcyon days of Web 1.0, when the way to communicate and express yourself was to build your own website with what you learned in high school and college courses, I appreciate what Neocities is trying to do by bringing back the opportunity to communicate, express our interests, and be understood, not just be looked at and left a like. Since there's a free tier, I would hope that if you're reading this, you come join and just have a space for yourself like in the days before social media ruined everything.
Well, that and it didn't help that the workspace they give you on W3Schools isn't secured so you get a big old red warning screen if you tried to browse it, and I didn't wanna scare people off. I'll be back soon with an actual update once I spend time learning a little bit more, sorry for taking a month to get back to this.
Site update for 8/12/2025!
Here's a little bit of what I've learned so far (aside from the very, VERY basic stuff) and how I've applied it to my webpage.
#1. I've learned how to make links! Click here, for instance, to go to my Twitch page!
Now, it takes you away from my page here so you'll have to press the back button to get back here. I'm sure there's a way to make it open in its own tab (although you could actually probably do it yourself by pressing down on the scroll wheel) but I'll find out how to do that later.
#2. I've learned how to show images! Watch this .gif I made of myself styled as a Maniac Mansion character!
Now since I'm nowhere near styling my page the way I want to, since I'm not there yet with learning HTML/CSS, I can't move this picture to the center of the page like I want to. But I'll learn that soon, too! But here's what I DO know how to do - if you mouseover the picture, I DO know how to make some text appear! Also, for people with sight issues who browse the Internet with screen readers, their reader will describe what the image looks like!
#3. I'm just now seeing what a "style attribute" is and how I can change how text and other things look on my page!
And finally, I know how to use a preformatted text box using the "pre" element if I want the website to show something exactly as I've written it in the code without all those pesky paragraph and line-break elements... it also keeps the spacing, too!
So I can put two spaces between each word and the HTML won't force them to one space between each word!
Also
I can do line breaks all I want without issue, too!
Two line breaks!
Three line breaks, AND THREE spaces between each word now!
Okay, I'll stop now, that's probably getting obnoxious, also I'm not really sure if there's a lot of places where preformatted text is going to be necessary, but hey, what do I know? I'm only starting. Thanks for coming by again to see what I'm learning! :)
My Very First Webpage!
My name is Amy, and I've always wanted to build my own personal webpage. I want to keep learning more and more HTML, CSS, PHP, and other web programming languages so I can build a superb website! What I have may not look like much now, but I hope to keep building on it and finding new content to add to it so that there's new reasons for you to stop by everyday!