status.cafe shenanigans
I've known about Status.Cafe for a while now, just about as long as I've been on the tiny web, but I had yet to make an account for some reason. I think I figured my blog posts were more of a priority, or that nobody really cared about my tweet-sized thoughts.
Well, delete Twitter for long enough and the tweet-sized void in your soul will get bigger and bigger until you just can't take it anymore.
So, for my sanity, I made an account! In case you don't know about Status.Cafe or just haven't paid the website a visit yet, here's what it looks like:
The profiles look about the same. I was content to just let mine be (especially since I figure you guys wouldn't be clicking on the profile, just reading the statuses) until I clicked on a few profiles in the feed and came across these:
like... are you kidding me.
So, I did what any sane college student would do with too much free time on their hands, and I spent the night in CSS purgatory until my status profile looked like this!
peep the sophisticated lad.
If you're thinking "that's-so-beautiful-wow-it-looks-great-Ophelia-amazing-work", you're too kind, and if you're simultaneously thinking "that doesn't look very complicated, why did it take you so long", how dare you. And you're right, it isn't very complicated. I just suck at CSS.
I went through a tantalizing variety of CSS-related mishaps during my five-hour escapade into the echoic depths of the style tag, such as adding a max width attribute of 200% to my image and proceeding to forget about and misplace it (the cat's face took up half the screen and it took me ten Earth minutes to realize why). Among my many plunders was my (blind and unfounded) confidence in my ability to change the favicon and text size of the headers (in the nav, which changed the size of every link on the page) which resulted in the site breaking entirely. Hah. I love my inability to learn.
Without it breaking, and sacrificing my previous aesthetic goals, this is what it looks like, and I'm actually pretty proud of it! If you're more knowledgeable than me (which let's face it you definitely are) in CSS, feel free to shoot me an email telling me how I might actually be able to do any of that stuff I mentioned above. My status currently lives on the home page of my blog, but I'm not sure if it'll live there forever. We'll see.
Pretty sure this is a sign from the universe that I shouldn't try logging back onto Neocities in a coding capacity any time soon.
Thanks for reading about my Status.Cafe misadventures!
Time to tweet (I mean... update my status)!
Edit: Thanks to a kind samaritan with some very helpful advice, I was able to change the nav size! Thank you <3
Read the update to the shenanigans.