Enemy Ace fansite! (my first one??????)
Apr. 17th, 2023 09:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jadinerhineI just realized I don't have a Hans icon on here...I'll need to rectify that after I post this and then edit it so it's all good. (Apparently I have two Skuld duplicate icons???)
Anyway, just wanted to let folks on here know that I scratched off an item on my very long to-do list -- or as I said on Twitter/Masto/Tumblr, one of my "for me!" projects: a fansite for one of my favorite characters of all time. A place for me to be unhinged--I mean, uhhhhh.
;)
hollenreiter.neocities.org/ <-- You can go visit it here. I waffled on whether to use the warning page or not that the original template had, but since we live in a society, I'd rather err for caution than not.
I'm quite happy with how it looks, and how it will look in the future. Despite being a fansite, I'm approaching it more like an archival database. There isn't much "fannish" stuff on it yet, aside from my fancast part and the fanfics part. Because of course, I did decide to make a fansite for a character that's only remembered by 6 boomers, 1 gen x, and like 4 millennials XD (Mind my hyperbolic statements.)
Now next, besides updating this at my own pace, is that huge Tangent Comics site. That one is really hefty so far, but luckily, I got a buddy who wants to help me with that, so hopefully it all goes well.
I should explain here why I did the thing, but since I'd be repeating myself, I'll go ahead and copy/paste my own statement from the site:
Okay, okay--to be frank, I was never the kind of person to make anything fan content-wise beyond making fanart. Fansites? Seems like it takes way too long to manage and my school schedule was never kind to free time. I was stupid, I didn't know how to code, also money, you need money for a fun domain name??? Obviously things have changed since late 90s/early 2000s for me...also, I didn't realize that you could actually sign up for a free site but I was also quite selfish, I wanted a fancy domain name!
The only time I attempted to do something fannish that I knew was manageable was creating a fanlisting for one of my absolutely favorite songs. (Don't ask me about the anime, I've never seen it.) As you may notice, I got over the fancy domain name part, given the sub-domain name. it also helped that someone offered to host me and honestly, I wish emails still worked after the fact because I would like to save and host this site myself--and thank the person and also ask them to let me have it lol
But the FL quickly died, due to not a lot of folks joining and once again, I grew so busy, that I purposefully let it die. You can tell this was before mobile design *had* to be king, because it's clearly not easy to navigate on mobile and it was made with Photoshop slices. Yeah, that's how old THAT is XD
Fast forward a few years -- Geocities dies, a bunch of sites disappear and I've gotten good enough to at least edit most code in a way that satisfied me until my nemesis, mobile web design, strikes -- that comic collective's site? All me. Bootstrap is a god-send. That said, this site isn't made with Bootstrap due to the nature of the original code...in Japanese...
I digress. Point is, in recent years, I've been thinking about...a "place" for Hans. I want a place where I can save everything I've learned or saved from the internet long ago, have a place where I can ramble non-stop without having to tie a straitjacket on me and also...spread the word about a very underrated character.
I've noticed throughout the years on this long internet road that there are a couple more fans of Hans cropping up--and if there was one thing I always liked about fansites, is that fans could find each other, peruse the site and maybe even chat with fellow fans on forums, if the site had them. But current fans only have a few posts on Tumblr and Discord. All scattered.
Forums are impossible to bring back but fansites are gaining some traction again, especially due to young fans realizing what we olden fans knew: that indeed the internet is ethereal and it is better to have your own spot to commiserate with others. Is it a big movement? Not really. I doubt it'll make an impact. But it would be nice if it still grew.
So I made this, so that not only I have a place for myself, but so that other people can see what has been done with Hans, and see the resources available to read even more about him!
Anyway, just wanted to let folks on here know that I scratched off an item on my very long to-do list -- or as I said on Twitter/Masto/Tumblr, one of my "for me!" projects: a fansite for one of my favorite characters of all time. A place for me to be unhinged--I mean, uhhhhh.
;)
hollenreiter.neocities.org/ <-- You can go visit it here. I waffled on whether to use the warning page or not that the original template had, but since we live in a society, I'd rather err for caution than not.
I'm quite happy with how it looks, and how it will look in the future. Despite being a fansite, I'm approaching it more like an archival database. There isn't much "fannish" stuff on it yet, aside from my fancast part and the fanfics part. Because of course, I did decide to make a fansite for a character that's only remembered by 6 boomers, 1 gen x, and like 4 millennials XD (Mind my hyperbolic statements.)
Now next, besides updating this at my own pace, is that huge Tangent Comics site. That one is really hefty so far, but luckily, I got a buddy who wants to help me with that, so hopefully it all goes well.
I should explain here why I did the thing, but since I'd be repeating myself, I'll go ahead and copy/paste my own statement from the site:
Okay, okay--to be frank, I was never the kind of person to make anything fan content-wise beyond making fanart. Fansites? Seems like it takes way too long to manage and my school schedule was never kind to free time. I was stupid, I didn't know how to code, also money, you need money for a fun domain name??? Obviously things have changed since late 90s/early 2000s for me...also, I didn't realize that you could actually sign up for a free site but I was also quite selfish, I wanted a fancy domain name!
The only time I attempted to do something fannish that I knew was manageable was creating a fanlisting for one of my absolutely favorite songs. (Don't ask me about the anime, I've never seen it.) As you may notice, I got over the fancy domain name part, given the sub-domain name. it also helped that someone offered to host me and honestly, I wish emails still worked after the fact because I would like to save and host this site myself--and thank the person and also ask them to let me have it lol
But the FL quickly died, due to not a lot of folks joining and once again, I grew so busy, that I purposefully let it die. You can tell this was before mobile design *had* to be king, because it's clearly not easy to navigate on mobile and it was made with Photoshop slices. Yeah, that's how old THAT is XD
Fast forward a few years -- Geocities dies, a bunch of sites disappear and I've gotten good enough to at least edit most code in a way that satisfied me until my nemesis, mobile web design, strikes -- that comic collective's site? All me. Bootstrap is a god-send. That said, this site isn't made with Bootstrap due to the nature of the original code...in Japanese...
I digress. Point is, in recent years, I've been thinking about...a "place" for Hans. I want a place where I can save everything I've learned or saved from the internet long ago, have a place where I can ramble non-stop without having to tie a straitjacket on me and also...spread the word about a very underrated character.
I've noticed throughout the years on this long internet road that there are a couple more fans of Hans cropping up--and if there was one thing I always liked about fansites, is that fans could find each other, peruse the site and maybe even chat with fellow fans on forums, if the site had them. But current fans only have a few posts on Tumblr and Discord. All scattered.
Forums are impossible to bring back but fansites are gaining some traction again, especially due to young fans realizing what we olden fans knew: that indeed the internet is ethereal and it is better to have your own spot to commiserate with others. Is it a big movement? Not really. I doubt it'll make an impact. But it would be nice if it still grew.
So I made this, so that not only I have a place for myself, but so that other people can see what has been done with Hans, and see the resources available to read even more about him!
