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Some people speak of digital gardens, linklogs and personal wikis. Of how to bring back a Geocities-era web without the baggage. Other people instead prattle about profiles, feeds and mentions. AntiWiki A helper for small websites. Clinklog 2 Static site generator optimized for linklogs and microblogs. Console Form 2 Tiny Javascript library to embed a command console into a webpage. Keep an EyeOut A tool to eye the outline of various documents. BrutalWiki Wiki engine based in Brutalist (web) design principles. Statickle Static site generator in a Tcl script: download, unpack, run! Fcp Calendar Tiny, self-contained Javascript calendar. Long-form and stand-alone pieces (oldest first). Plain old webpages still matter an essay on new media (plain text version). Distributed social networks: a personal survey my overview of alternatives (plain text version). Just another website an essay about the state of web design and how we can reclaim it. Notes on the small web (And web-adjacent technologies.) RSS (news)feeds and how to tame them new An introduction that explains the what and why for a change, not just where to click.
This page is a live demo of Diary, a drop-in stylesheet, or "classless" like the cool kids say. Feel free to use it with attribution. A minimal, light gray theme, with two colums and sidebar on the left. This is probably my most ported theme. See also the edition below. My newest as of September 2022 is Stark Retro, based on the eponymous stylesheet (see above). Others are: Newsprint template Minimal, scalable design in light gray and black. Leatherbound template Fluid design with an Old West sort of vibe. Fiction template Scalable design with a bookish motif. These are general-purpose web page templates that happen to ship as skins for the PmWiki engine. Thanks to the simplicity of the format, you can easily adapt them for other uses. Leatherbound stylesheet Single-column design with an Old West sort of vibe; a port of the PmWiki skin of the same name. Supports FAQs, footnotes and comments. Electronic stylesheet A recolor of Leatherbound made to look (retro)futuristic instead. The OddMuse wiki engine doesn't allow to change the HTML it emits, but only the stylesheet applied to it. Hence why these ship as just a CSS file each. Leatherbound for HTMLy Fluid design with an Old West sort of vibe. Ramus for Pelican Single-column theme in white, blue and brown, elegant and very lightweight. Electronic Weasel Single-column design with a retro-futuristic look inspired by 1970s electronics. See also: Soft Brown and Electronic Bash, two BashBlog themes. They're free for personal use, and presented as zip files because each consists of two stylesheets to be copied into the blog directory. Soft Records - Music matters! The web directory and linklog live on their own pages due to sheer size.
Have you ever wanted to try out a new personality? Since we're stuck with ourselves, day-in and day-out, our own personalities might sometimes feel a little tired from time to time. So what can we do about this? There are, of course, costumes, which are probably the reason so many people look forward to Halloween -- they can be their favorite superhero for a night and revel in a little creativity. But not all of us are willing to play dress up throughout the calendar year, mainly because doing so violates generally held social norms. After all, most Web sites that offer some kind of online community allow their users to create avatars, an electronic image that represents the person controlling it. Generally, members can be as creative as they like with their avatar, either fashioning it as close to their appearance and personality as possible or creating an entirely different personality.
One of these social networking services is Zwinky, a service launched in 2006 and owned by InterActiveCorp (IAC). Zwinky lets its members create their own cartoonish, large-headed and big-eyed avatars, which they can use in several different ways. One thing to keep in mind: Zwinky is open to anyone age 13 and older. If you're younger than 13, you won't be allowed to make your own account, not even with parental permission. Zwinky profiles can also be set to "private" if you're 18 or older, but profiles of Zwinky users younger than 18 are automatically set to private. So how does Zwinky work? What can someone with a Zwinky avatar do? And what kind of place is Zwinktopia, anyway? This may be a slightly unfamiliar approach for members of other social networking sites -- most simply request that you create a username and password and fill in some personal information, including e-mail addresses and phone numbers.
Zwinky, however, requires you to download a Zwinky icon onto your Web browser, which users click on to access the program's interface. When you've successfully installed the Zwinky program and opened up the program window, it's time to customize your Zwinky character. Every Zwinky has a personal wardrobe, which users can access by clicking on the "Open Wardrobe" button near the bottom of the screen. You can manipulate a Zwinky's appearance to make it look however you want, and users choose traits including gender, skin tone, hair style and color, and more. To move a Zwinky from one place to the next in a specific area, members simply use the mouse to point and click. You can make new friends or see a list of the ones you already have by clicking on the "View/Add Friends" button at the bottom of the interface. This button allows you to either send an e-mail to a fellow Zwinky requesting friendship or to see where in Zwinky's world your friends are.
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