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Why is no one using CSS to make their magazine's visual appearances more unique? That was the main draw of old Reddit for me.

(I mean I am, but that is why I asked)

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[–] wjrii@kbin.social 67 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

So you'd need mods who (1) came over, (2) believe in the platform, (3) believe in the instance, (4) want to do custom CSS, (5) know how to do custom CSS, (6) are willing to put for the effort for a readership that's still fairly small, and (7) feel that the odds of a change that will break their CSS are low.

That's a tall stack of filters, and you may not have a lot of company yet on the other side of it. /m/neverwinternights looks really nice, though. Well done!

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 27 points 1 year ago (4 children)
[–] Jaysyn@kbin.social 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

ChatGTP can be pretty useful for this.

[–] Greyson@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

It's very useful for this. I have a moderately good understanding of CSS styling after spending 2 weeks on a work side project using GPT 3.5 and 4.0. Had absolutely 0 prior coding experience.

[–] May@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Codecademy can be good if you are just starting out like the first time trying CSS. Probably would wanna do the lessons on html and then CSS but ya. I took already computer science course in school (only intro course yet bc is summer now) and there can teach more stuff, but before then i already did some lessons on codecademy and it helped to have context for the beginning parts of the class.

[–] CMLVI@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, that's gonna be difficult. Lol I want to do it, but it's a tall ask to work full-time, take care of my own personal stuff, hobbies, and then also learn basic HTML and CSS just do decorate a landing page for a forum.

Don't get me wrong, I'd love to do it. It's just far down on the priority list and will probably be there for the foreseeable future. Would absolutely welcome anyone to help with it though! Currently best I can do is an icon lol

[–] cutitdown@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Come on folks, where's that MySpace/Xanga/Geocities spirit‽ Maybe younger folks here weren't active online at that time. Sad we've lost that a bit online. Lots of people learned lots of stuff to make their pages look cool.

[–] artisanrox@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I absolutely LOVED GeoCities and totally miss that everyone-is-an-indie vibe.

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Oh jeebus my first website online was Xanga, and I copied the shit out of code back then to bling it up

[–] cutitdown@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Haha, definitely! Had to have that autoplaying music when people came to your page!

[–] Saturdaycat@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Hell yeah! Custom everything and just blast your favorite music lol

[–] Xeelee@kbin.social 3 points 1 year ago

I know some CSS. But that just makes me think very hard whether I really want to know more CSS.

[–] Lells@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

Yeah, I'm at 7. With kbin still being actively worked on, basically still a prototype, and then just being exhausted from full stack web development all day, my desire to make something cool that may disappear in a month is just really low.

[–] Catch42@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

Mine is 5, being influenced by 4, all being bedrock by 7. That is I I don't know how to do custom CSS(5), and I don't want to learn (4) right now because it'll probably break sooner rather than later (7)

[–] ProfThadBach@kbin.social 1 points 1 year ago

I started m/WNC and I have no idea what a CSS is . On top of that I post things to the magazine and they never show up. I have posted like 3 things today and a few over the last few days and the last thing I have that showed up is like 4 days ago. I don't know what I am doing wrong.