New homepage layout! -
Surprise, surprise, https://joo.sh is not dead! It's been so long that I had to relog into Nekoweb..
I guess you could say I've been on a semi-hiatus. I had a layout in the works, got it mostly done, then disappeared.
Today I finished up what I needed to do with it (at least I think.. hard to remember what you need to do when it's been two months since the last time you've worked on something) and now I think it's ready to be published!
The new navbar is probably my favorite part. It brings some of my 3D CSS love to the homepage, while sneaking into an inconspicuous place. I hope the warning text is enough to let people know where it is.
The only downside is that this new layout is heavily incompatible with mobile. Having your navbar show up only on hover isn't exactly the best idea when you can't hover. For now, it's just not going to scale.
I thought about adding a new landing page with a quicker direct to the journal index, but I quickly scrapped that. I just wanted to finally get this layout published without any other complications.
The other part I really like is the window effect to the background. If you look closely, the background image behind the headers of the entries stays perfectly in position with the background! It's a lot of fun and I think the blur helps the legibility. (Plus now you can see a fraction more of my background!)
The 3D nekolink ad is a fun addition. It wasn't difficult to make in terms of a 3D CSS standpoint (nor do I really think it's all that impressive anymore), but it's triple the ads in the same small form factor! Triple the bandwidth too, sorry Rice!
Hope everyone thinks it turned out good, because I definitely do. It's nice to have more of a disconnect from my initial inspirations and have something a little more joosh-like.
For the rest of my pages, I would like to change them in the future. The journal entries themselves will likely stay the same. It's an easy to read format.
Anyways, joosh out (I have some more pictures to upload and journal entries to write soon!)