About me

I love modern technology, but I have always had a soft spot for the gear that is just behind us, the tools that made, entertained, and inspired all the stuff of the present era.

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About this

I heard about Neocities through EposVox^(neo), the Stream Professor, and decided it's a cool time to finally learn the basics of web-design.

The current TermUI style is inspired by retro technology, cathode-ray tubes, terminals, and enthusiasts who continue those legacies. Oh look, here are some of those web-sites:

• rbuchanan.neocities - Text page like a linux terminal
• websitereview.neocities - Page and table like a DYNIX library terminal
• Alec Lownes - Using CSS To Create A CRT
• Patorkj taag - Figlet ascii word art generator

I'll try to document some of what I learn. Maybe you will find it useful.

Tools for web-design

While I started developing this web-site with Adobe Dreamweaver, I've found using Microsoft Visual Studio Code with these plugins to be better:

• Live Preview (Microsoft) - Allows you preview the web-page and changes, in a side pane, as you are coding it. No need to periodically refresh your web-browser. But, it also starts an internal web-server so you can navigate to "http://localhost:[port]/website" to check it in a browser.
• Code Spell Checker (Street Side Software) - Alerts you to misspelled words. It also let's you add words to an 'ignore' list for your workspace folder.