crt 2.0
oh christ another website
Only sort of! Kind of! Sorry! I will keep the old version of this site available as a subdomain on Night Electricity, but I will not update it with any more posts. The electron gun will now be firing from this new location, with a snazzy new template, Strawberry Starter!
what was wrong with the old website
Nothing exactly, but even as a silly side project running an HTML blog as a sub domain on a static site markdown blog didn't feel ideal. It's not really what Zonelets is designed for, and while I personally gel more with markdown nowadays, Zonelets is a more than viable option for fun online, especially paired with Neocities.
ok but i still don't get why you chose to use zonelets again anyway
When I started the first semi-successful version of Night Electricity, it was running on Zonelets, and indeed you can still view that version here. I really like the current version that runs on Jekyll, it's very snazzy and responsive and broadly more accessible. But it is a little boring- hopefully not to read, but definitely for me to use. As I went over in CRT's first post, the format is a bit restrictive, I wanted to have fun online, and I had lots of fun online with Zonelets before, so why not try again?
so do you not like it anymore?
Zonelets is great! It remains an excellent sandbox for HTML experimentation, and I would not have known where to begin with CSS styling and static site generation without it. For me it was a stepping zone, for you it could be a home! I did not fully explore everything it could do, so there's plenty to get on with. And as powerful as Jekyll is... god. Look at this screen.
awful
Agreed. But to display that image in Zonelets, I would have had to type:
<p class = "center">
<img src= "/assets/images/gracefulfail.jpg"
alt"Jekyll error message describing a graceful fail" />
</p>
Whereas in markdown I just type:
that doesn't seem that hard
It isn't, but markdown is certainly easier, and with a static site I can serve it locally, which makes it easier to check if I've made some catastrophic mistake before you all see it, which is nice for me! It serves the purpose of letting me make quick silly things, as evidenced by the fact that I was able to write this in about twenty minutes in Notepad++. And while Jekyll was kind of a pain on Windows, Strawberry Starter and 11ty were far easier. If you follow the guide you should be up and running in no time, and it will be even easier for you if you use Neocities, as it includes built in upload support!
so why did you make a new domain if neocities would be easier
I called this Cathode Ray Tubetop before I knew you could have a dot top domain. I wasn't going to let that go uncorrected.