Shaking out a framework

I am still working on a basic concept for a design layout. At present I at least have bodged something together with snippets and a lot of hopeful thinking. Nothing novel, just a central column, hopefully a little styling to make it look nice according to my tastes. I keep dreaming of an old school terminal look. I've seen a few websites I think I can steal ideas from. I mean seek inspiration from.

I do wonder about the extent a terminal look would attract or repel an audience. On the plus side, styles are mutable, so perhaps I should not worry so much. I understand browser extensions to force dark mode onto websites are quite popular these days, and most operating systems have a lot of contrast controls built right in for people who need the usability.

Anyway, my simple goal at the moment is to get things readable and usable enough that I am happy with the whole "actually creating some content" bit. I feel like I am getting pretty close.

From scratch, you say?

A few days ago I went down a bit of a rabbit hole. Specifically, I looked into contemporary web standards and practices. Much to my shock I realized they all seemed elegant, easy to implement, and well considered.

I took to heart the following idea: That the inadequacy of the modern internet has little to do with Google, the W3C, or any other entity. The suggestions they actually offer, the standards they actually establish, I like. They're good. I dast not blame Google for being unhappy with my own website.

I do not expect to create a particularly beautiful website, but I think I can make one that is good enough, and most importantly, one I cannot blame on my tools. So I tossed Wordpress to the can, and here I am, rewriting everything mostly line by line, warts and all. And it is fun. I like my stupid little website once again, because once again it is my own stupid little website.

As to what was here, well, the important stuff was already relased to the public domain. As for the rest? Well, what I had here was stagnant for more than a decade. If you care about what is missing, you probably know how to reach me and I can put it back.

So as to not leave you with nothing, perhaps you will enjoy a simple image in the style of classic 80 column ansi splash screens:

This is an image in the style of 80 column ansi graphics. The upper portion of the image is of a planet in space. The lower portion of the image is of some doggerel. The doggerel relates to fondness for computer graphics.