Hi there,
I am SITA and this is the very beginning of my website. I saw a YouTube video by onionboots and decided I want to
try my own little web development project.
With my very limited experience in web design from one random-ass school project where I clobbered some HTML and CSS together with a friend, I have no clue what I'm doing
here xD.
That is why I decided to host the most barebones version and document my journey to develop this side through posts along the way. Blog posts will coincide with new features
or visual updates.
The goal is to have a fun little page with this old internet flair for me to share my hobbies and projects. The base goal I set for myself is to create a blog and guestbook
that is styled in a way I like. After achieving the base goal, the plan is to utilize the blog for projects beyond the website and add additional shenanigans to the
website when I have ideas.
So how did we even get this far?
After the afore mentioned YouTube video by onion I started with
32bit.cafe's tutorial on how to get started, and while I already knew what I wanted, the
website to be, I had very little idea about how I wanted to build or host it.
I considered self-hosting the site with my own home server, but that project is still in its infancy, and I wanted to document my fight against HTML, CSS, and my biggest
enemy of all. Motivation for front-end development. Therefore, I decided to go with an easy free host option for the beginning and host with
Neocities for now. For the development, I decided to just stick with VS Code because I am familiar with it, and it is my default
IDE for everything. With the project setup out of the way, it was finally time to start.
I followed the html.com beginner tutorial to get the first site up and running, and while the coding part went well, the testing
tilted me quite a bit. For some reason my browsers don't host the HTML page; they move it to some weird run environment with a unique ID
(I probably should look up the reason for this), which did not allow me to easily reference other local HTML files. So throwing a Python HTTP server onto the problem,
we are good to go with an easy and quick fix. From there on out, it was smooth sailing with some extra added pages and making my life easier with a
tutorial to build your own HTML blog.
The only thing that incredibly annoyed me throughout this was that I had to add the navigation bar each time. So I quickly utilized the power of
stack overflow to get a small fix so I
could import the same navigation bar everywhere.
And with that all that was left was writing this block post and realizing that I did no spellchecking at all across the html file ^^'. I'm sorry but future
me will have to deal with this I'm out of time for today.
Edit: The code for the project is public on my github.
Love SITA
on the 28th of June 2026 at 10:42 a.m. UTC