Site Relaunch

“Lore, where have you been?”

In hell, probably. I remade M0R1BUND.com.

“For the love of god, why?”

Short answer: to save time and money.

Long answer: Sharing art was getting burdensome. Neocities hosts static websites built with html, css, and javascript—which is awesome for its mission, to encourage people to create future-proof websites. But this also means that every page is created and maintained by hand. I handle every little link and file and bit of code, and if I want to do site-wide changes, I have to push those by hand, too. This takes time, and so does writing image descriptions and cross-posting art to other websites. It became normal for sharing art to eat up an entire day.

I later created Basedt.net in WordPress, so that I didn’t have to worry about managing link hierarchies, which was a big timewaster on my old webcomic. I liked working in WordPress well enough, and I knew I would benefit from being able to use PHP to manage the sheer amount of stuff that’s on M0R1BUND.com. I was also paying double for webhosting through two different services, when I really didn’t need to…. So… I knew it was inevitable that I would consolidate the two at some point. It was time.

I do really love Neocities and I’m sorry to let it go. I encourage anyone who wants to learn web design and create their own website to start there.

Anyway, that’s how I ended up in hell for 6 months.

“What’s changed?”

Most things. I’m most excited about the quality-of-life stuff, like being able to sort art by character/location/world, or being able to move between individual pieces instead of having to return to the gallery landing page. There are lots of things I want to add, but my soft deadline for this was the new year, so I focused on recreating M0R1BUND.com as it existed before… well… this.

I’ve also edited most of my writing. This site is old, and the art is even older, it felt good to give it some TLC.

There are still a few things missing from the new site:

The Woods and RANSOM. They aren’t really representative of Basedt or Mercasor anymore, and I was not a competent writer in 2018. If I re-share them, it will be in the distant future.
Some of my Those Who Went Missing stuff. I haven’t been playing TWWM publicly, so this is lower priority right now. It will happen when it happens.
Some twines. They haven’t adjusted to the new filepath format yet. Killswitch is here, though :)

If you need them urgently for some reason, I can share them with you? but that seems doubtful haha.

Links to pages on the old M0r1BUND.com are broken and will remain broken until I set up redirections to the new M0r1BUND.com. I have no idea how long that will take! … Hopefully not long, given the new semester is here.

“How’s Basedt going?”

A teaser page of Basedt that's been edited jokingly. It shows a grizzled old woods woman recoiling from a small girl in a thick parka. The woman is labelled "me" and the girl is labelled "you." The woman scowls and says "Don't show me it again."

In the next panel, the girl looks down at the thing in question-- a disembodied claw, which is labelled "Basedt." The woman kicks a tarp over the claw to hide it. They are joined by a masked figure labelled "The looming specter of 2024," who merely stares down at the claw. The woman says "Don't show it to anyone. Keep it out of sight."

In the last panel, the woman wags a finger at the girl and says "And DON'T. LOSE IT." The girl just makes a face at her, and says "Wasn't planning to."

It’s going. Recreating my website took precedence for the above reasons, but I’ve been working concurrently on it in my spare time. We move like a glacier into the new year. ETA: ???

2 responses to “Site Relaunch”

itinerare

January 7, 2024

I ran into the same issue with Neocities where it was simply too laborious to update (so I didn’t do it, really), though my reasoning also involved a lot of “generating thumbnails for performance/bandwidth (especially in a world where folks increasingly browse on mobile devices) is too much work to do manually on top of everything else” in particular. My solution ended up a lot more complicated by virtue of a healthy amount of hubris in conjunction with picking up web development full time in the interim, though, haha. Nonetheless, glad you figured out something which strikes the balance better for you (and to see an RSS feed)!

1. 1ore
  
  January 7, 2024
  
  Totally resonate. I was also doing thumbnails by hand, and I forget how much the little things add up until oops, image processing is taking an hour every time 😔 In any case, thank you so much! Enjoy the feed! (And again for finding this unstyled post that I meant to style LOL)

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