A long-winded blog about making the website: Kaelci Games!

Back in the day, I used to have my own website. I've had a few over the years!

It all started when I was a kid. There was this little computer game developed by P. F. Magic called Petz. There were Dogz and Catz of different breeds and you adopted them, played with them, bred them, and there was a rather large community built around them. People would breed their digital animals and adopt them off all around the world to other people. Websites sprung up all about them -- digital pet adoption sites, basically -- and it's where I got my very first interest in making websites.

Back then, most of the websites were ugly. You'd visit a bright blue Geocities or Angelfire page, it would have bright yellow text, high-treble music would play in the background, white backgrounds on images weren't transparent and shone starkly against blue. And you weren't really a part of the community unless you joined a web ring and proudly displayed it on your front page.

Haha... web rings...

That's actually how I learnt about copying and pasting. I literally printed out this damned code then typed it bit by bit into my HTML area, looking at the paper than looking back at the monitor, over and over. Then, after the fact, was schooled about copy and paste. 😂🤣 I was like, 8 years old, in the 90's, leave me alone!

Over time I got better when it came to websites. Being in such a large community, with hundreds of people making hundreds of their own websites, I learnt that I could inspect their HTML codes and imitate what they had done and turn it into my own. That's how I discovered there was another type of code called CSS.

It kind of irritated me, actually. I had spent so long getting HTML down to a tee, only to find that things were evolving and now you were expected to know CSS too.
 

Alert: I still don't really know CSS. By that time I was a grumpy teenager, was annoyed that I had learnt something that seemed useless, and didn't want to learn another thing that would probably also be useless.

Fun Fact: CSS is still around today and is, in fact, not useless. 😂🤣

 
Other than these websites, dedicated to digital pets, I tried to make more personal websites. I didn't get results within a week though so gave up on them. Once again: grumpy, impatient teenager.

My latest website was a place of fiction where I could keep all of my freewrites and things handy in an easy-to-access spot. It was linked to the blockchain with the old Steempress plugin so everything I wrote would be on my website and then sent to the blockchain too. I had the site with intent to keep all of my writing on-chain.

With the Sun Saga and subsequent kerfuffle though, and not knowing how things would lie, I ended up just letting that website disappear into the void. Kaelci.com is still an unavailable domain name because some jackass took it upon expiry. I didn't think to just keep it for my own, forevermore.

But that's okay. Because I have something even better now.

Top Level Domains (.com, .net, .org, .io, etc)... there seem to be an awful lot of the things these days. In fact, I recently discovered that .games has become a top level domain.

Suddenly, the wheels started spinning.

I already blog about gaming here on Hive. Steempress has turned into Exxp. I could do gaming content on my own website and have it sent here, on-chain, just like I used to do with my fiction!

So... after asking those who created the plugin if I could use it to post to communities...

I bought the kaelci.games domain name. Then I bought hosting. Then, because I know diddlysquat about CSS, I bought a cheap but likeable wordpress theme. Then I spent a couple of hours tweaking it to my own specifications.

There are a couple more things I'd like to do to it before I'm completely happy. Namely adding a live Twitter thing to the side and getting some Google Analytics going. Might find some other interesting things as I diddle about through the wordpress world, too.

Then, on Saturday night after a day spent in the upcoming Path of Exile League, I plan to publish my first post on the website. 😊

I'm not expecting it to become popular, but it's mine and it will have my gaming stuff for the rare non-Hivean to see, and perhaps they'll investigate Hive and choose to join this wondrous place too.

We all do our part, no matter how small.

I'm also planning on linking my site to Redbubble at some point, as I get better at my art, and hope to sell a few things there. 🤷‍♀ Practice, practice, practice.

Guess I'd better get back to Twittering. 🐦😵

 

Thanks for reading my babbles!

 

Until next time!! 😊❤️

 

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_{All images/screenshots in this post are courtesy of me, @kaelci.}