Went to Philly for a few days for funsies. Mostly because I had the time and I hadn’t been before. Stayed at a hostel in Old City. Really the only way I can afford to travel these days. It’s rather unfortunate to visit these cities with such rich history and not really care about any of it. I am not a US History connoisseur. But I appreciated the people appreciating all the historic landmarks. I loved visiting the Philadelphia Museum of Art and I loved discovering the Cherry Street Pier where I spent my evenings watching the sun set over the Ben Franklin Bridge and the Delaware River. I wish Iowa City had a place like that; a massive venue for local artists to create and showcase their work.
Overall, I felt like the Philly Cheese Steak sandwich IS the perfect representation of Philadelphia.
The photos aren’t anything special but I wanted to test gallery options and for whatever reason my default WordPress gallery is busted. I’ll have to look into why that is another time. Best wishes!
I brought back the second website I had made while I was a student at the UofI. It expired in 2013 so it’s a bit moldy and yet I’ve got moldier sites in my crypt.
Take a look: archive.andyz.blog
I believe I peaked with this simple minimalist weblog design. In resurrecting the site, I did fix the header and menu bar which used pngs/gifs that switched with a mouse hover. Images that were set to be preloaded in the body html. XD
I just picked some random SVG’s for the social links but didn’t care about congruence…y which was present on the old site. I also didn’t bother fixing any of the formatting with the images. Some are just broken which is fine for now.
Did you know that 50% of all Internet traffic is just bots. May they never find me.
My main blog utilizes WordPress of course.
Tailwind is used throughout the entire site.
Nav Bar Burger : Uhh…I forget. Let me look.
Dropdown Navigation : Uhh…I forget. Let me look.
Portfolio Page: lightGallery
Icons: BoxIcons, SimpleIcons, Magnific (a few different ones there)
Inspiration: Behance (initially that is)
I don’t know what possessed me in thinking I needed to have yet another personal webpage; this one being my third iteration. Especially now with civilization on the brink of complete and utter collapse. How long will the internet be on anyway? Luckily for me, I have more fun creating the sites than maintaining them. Either I’ll create many page layouts with many designs for many purposes, for funsies… or the apocalypse happens.
In my exploration of websites that I wanted to steal borrow code/features from, I discovered a type of web design referred to by some as Tailwind. This way of creating websites blew my mind! Never have I considered just listing almost every possible variation of css code on one style sheet and then just pulling which styling effect you want by declaring it in the div‘s. Or whatever you want to style. Incredible! Too bad AI has effectively made Tailwind somewhat obsolete because this struck me as if someone reinvented the wheel (of web design). Even still with half my site incorporating Tailwind design, I can’t bring myself to using it properly. It’s like trying to teach an old CSS dog, new Tailwind tricks.
