I am not sure what I will play with this year. I might dig in heavy with mastheads as I am kinda slacked off on them over the last couple years. Of course the css code will be based on last years template but I feel like going harder this year. hard and done. we will see.
I am using the starfield colours as base then seeing where I go from there. I think I have done pretty much every design I could with this html layout though I still find some bugs here and there. It more about function. Its always been about function. Function over design. Most of these designs could have been done 20 years ago with old tech but tastes and times change - monitors get bigger. The design is more a sign of the times than my own personal taste.
I do try to mix it up a bit but there is only so much I can do. Mixing colours, borders and padding with a eye catching masthead (rip dooce.com ). I have a page for the old mastheads - surprisingly I did not create any ones in 2025 even though I was making lots of photos. Modern CSS has added light/dark mode and mobile/widescreen layouts that I need to always consider. On older browsers it simply defaults to the standard layout with the sidebar pushed to the footer. It works seamlessly which is a rare thing in modern tech.
I cant even remember what I did last year. I must have done stuff. It might come back to me eventually. WEll as usual I redesign the entire website theme Nothing too radical this time More of an improvement over last year. Fixed some bugs. Still has the light dark mode based on your operating system settings.
This might be the blandest redesign I have ever done since like 2012. The only respite is that it switches between light and dark mode based on your browser/computer settings. Maybe during the year I will add more colour to it but its a bit uninspired right now. On older browsers it defaults to white.
The concept of the FOUC page is simply to link to the social media videos,pictures and platforms that relate to the FOU artists as a kind of scrapbook because many things on the internet just flow through the stream never to be seen again. And searching on google sucks. So I finished the html/coding then put it online so people can add their own sharelinks and stuff they are doing - it is a collective mashup. Of course reels disappear so it will mostly be IG posts/yt videos/websites anything that has a share/public link. does it sound simple enough?
