I've been using drag-and-drop website makers for close to 15 years, but starting less than a month ago, I've been learning to code a site from scratch, and the new TalkyPup.com is the result. I had a little bit of HTML experience from high school, but this is the first time I've taken on a project like this and I'm proud of how it's turned out. It's an ever evolving project that I'm regularly tweaking and adding to, so there's still some work to do, but the bulk of it is there. Next I need to make some more stuff to actually put on it.

The decision to start work on a new site came from the ever growing Neocities community, which is where my site is now hosted. It aims to bring back the spirit of Geocities and the old web and its been fun exploring other people's sites on there and borrowing some ideas from them.

I was going to write a long post about my journey of making the site like I did with the Wii channels, but I got so absorbed in making the site that I forgot about it. Whoops :P. Either way, it's been a lot of fun learning about HTML and CSS, and immensely satisfying seeing it all come together. I recently added a blog to the site, but all that's on it right now is reposted from my Patreon account, which I plan on closing in favour of Ko-fi soon, but I might do some deep dives on making the site among other things both there and in Obsidian. Some of the more personal stuff can stay in Obsidian for now.

I'm looking forward to doing more work on the site and exploring more of what the Neocities community has to offer.