Date Created: 11th April 2026
Date Updated: 26th April 2026

Hello, hope those who are reading this are having a nice day. Though it would seem like this post was created on 11th April, it is in fact only being written up today, 26th April. This is because I am an expert procrastinator and have mastered the art of not being productive. This site in truth only took a cummulative time of around 10 hours. Which to be frank (although I am Jerome) is still longer than what people today can achieve with AI. I did mention that I used LLMs to assist but it was mostly only used for things that were not very clear to a beginner. Things such as how to structure CSS and what are the ways to handle multiple HTMLs. It is quite sad that I've learnt this in my poly days but have retained nothing at all. But I am digressing from the purpose of this post. So I shall get into it now before I further chat on about things that aren't related.

To start, I went into this project with one thought: "I want to create a website that catalogues and 'archives' my thought processes and knowledge." Not sure if I can keep to that promise but we'll see how it goes in the coming months. To begin this project, I went to neocities.org and did the usual admin stuff; creating an account, logging in, basic navigation and tutorials. From there, I went through colour palettes and though of what I felt suited my current brand and vibe. I wanted something minimalistic, "hotel"-esk. I wanted something akin to Wes Anderson's movies, specifically "The Grand Budapest Hotel". (I have yet to watch the movie but I think YouTube Shorts has filled me in) Also, I'm pretty sure I was subconciously influenced by my time spent playing Deadlock (Valve). If you are in the mood to waste some time you are free to invert the my logo or the site's colour palette and you will realise that my colour palettes are that of the Patrons, 'Hidden King' and 'Arch Mother'. This was not intended at all but I like it so I'm keeping it.

After deciding on the colour palette, I moved on to deciding about the backend structure and design. I come from a 'Object-oriented Programming' background so I wasn't familiar with the way HTML and CSS handles the backend. But after a bit of messing about (and some AI assistance) I got the sidebar working. Which is the main way you navigate through this site. It took a lot longer than I expected. I had to wrap my head around the idea of containers-within-containers and not just putting 'A' next to 'B'. Had a friend of mine help me a bit on that part and it did wonders in my understanding. A big frustration I had when creating the base structure of this website was dealing with the "nonsensical" syntax. This is my opinion but I feel that the descriptions used as 'Keywords' such as 'color' were rather imprecise. Make a guess on what colour does keyword 'color' influence. Cause I sure as h*ll didn't! (And yes I will be censoring myself for the sake of modesty, just in case a future employer happens upon this site) 'color' influences the colour of the container's text! Like... huh?! It is such a broad description! *EVERYTHING* has colour! Things like that made the learning process a tad bit frustrating. However, once I figured out how CSS is supposed to be structured alongside the important HTML keywords like 'div' and 'class', it was rather smooth sailing. The current site you are looking at was created on the same day as me typing this. All within 2 hours... I think?

Right now I'm probably gotta add the remaining sections and think about what other stuff I wanna include. Thanks for reading by the way if you did actually reach this point. Have a nice rest of your day and feel free to look through the rest of the site!