Updates

Welcome to Flamed Fury 2023. I started working on this in late December 2022 and spent a lot of time over the summer break working on it in a lovely little house on Onetangi beach.

It’s been a fun project and was enough of a challenge to keep me interested and see it through to what you see now.

When I sat down and planned what I wanted Flamed Fury to look like this year, not only in looks but in how it functions, I was still determining how I could make it work.

When I came across the starter project Eleventy Excellet by Lene Saile that looked to provide that functionality out of the box, I was excited. I got straight to work.

Two months later, after on and off development when I had pockets of focus time, I’m happy to release and share it with you all.

As with all personal homepages, it’s not 100% complete. Features are being worked on that still need to be finished. I’m excited to roll these out over the next few weeks.

Thank you, web surfers, for visiting, and if you like or don’t like what you see, don’t hesitate to drop me an email or sign my guestbook.

Today I’ve spent a couple of hours updating my Mixtapes page to fit the new website design.

Similar to the Vinyl Collection, I’m still considering where this page should live long-term.

I’ve taken the time to add some extra mixtapes that I have and a description of what they are.

If you give them a listen, let me know what you think.

Today I’ve added a /uses page to the About section. A /uses page is a recent Web trend where webmasters detail their setups, gear, software and configs. Check out uses.tech for hundreds of /uses pages across the Web.

While working on my /uses page, I took the time to refresh my About page. I hadn’t made an update to it since 2021.

Today I’ve added a Blogroll page to the Explore section. The purpose of the Explore section is Web discovery. Like the previous pages that I have added to the area, the Blogroll played a large part in early Web discovery.
I wrote some words to give an overview of what a Blogroll is, why they were valuable to both webmasters and web surfers, how they fell out of use and how they are now making a comeback.
Every website should have a blogroll.

Future plans: The top priority is to organise my Interesting Weblogs bookmark folder into categories and add a brief description of what I like about each personal website I link to. It’s a big job and is in its early stages of development.

Today I’ve spent a couple of hours updating my Vinyl Collection page to fit the new website design. I’m still determining whether I like having it directly under the Recordshelf page, which is part of the Collections section or whether it should move to a new area I have on the planning board. It made sense to live here with the old design. With the new design, maybe not.

This gets me thinking about information architecture… This makes an excellent point for having a personal website. It’s easy for me to change anything whenever I feel like it. We’ll see.

Similar to the other new and updated pages, I’ve added a few paragraphs on why I like vinyl as a medium for music. I hope this adds some personality to the page and that you (the web surfers) reading can relate as you browse the collection.
I’ve moved all the vinyl metadata to its own JSON file in the _data directory, and the vinyl-collection template renders it nice and tidily.

Future plans: Take photos of my collection, including pictures of the covers, sleeves, vinyl and anything else that makes the record unique.

Today I’ve added the Buttonwall page to the Explore section. Like webrings, buttons, especially the 88x31 buttons, were a big part of Web discovery. For this page, rather than dumping dozens of buttons, I searched the depths of the Web for information on their origin, popularity and how they were used.

Per current personal website trends, I have started populating my own wall of buttons linking to the websites of web surfers I know or admire.

I’ve dumped links to the websites and resources I used to write the paragraphs. I’ll look at organising them in the future.

Today I’ve added the Webrings page to the Explore section. Webrings were a big part of Web discovery. On this page, I’ve written a few paragraphs about what they are and how they work.

Future plans include adding the webrings that Flamed Fury is part of and a list of all current and active webrings you may be interested in.

Today I rewrote and updated the Comic Rack, Bookshelf, and Recordshelf pages.

The Web Manifesto page was rewritten and updated.