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site updates
documenting the updates i've given to the site

This is still a work in progress! Some site updates don't yet have exact dates as I continue to dig up old revisions. As a result, some of these will include an approximation of when an update has occurred.

This site has received a ton of updates over the past few years. This page aims to document all of them.

2025

July

Various reference sheets are added to (or updated on) the Characters page in preparation for Art Fight 2025.

Additions

  • Added Sam reference sheet to the Characters page. (July 2)
  • Added ELL-E reference sheet to the Characters page. (July 2)
  • Added Art Fight page to the Social Media section of the About page. (July 2)
  • Added lightbox stylesheet to the blog entries. (July 3)

Changes

  • Updated Phoebe reference sheet. (July 2)
  • Corrected age in “A bit more information” section on About page. (July 2)

June

Additions

  • Added two new pieces to the fanart gallery. (June 30)
  • Added three new pieces to the 2D art gallery. (June 23 and 30)

Changes

  • Further implementation of fallback Sass variables for browsers that do not support CSS variables, allowing this website to render better on Internet Explorer 9 and earlier. (May 30-June 2)
  • Fixed two apparent mentions of localhost in the FrixCraft gallery. (June 2)
  • Applied temporary fix to the large button containers (within the Portfolio and Misc indexes) for browsers that do not support Flexbox. (June 8)
  • Changed age on About page. (Happy birthday!) (June 30)

May

The FrixCraft section receives an unexpected update.

Additions

  • Added cdkaid button to links page. (May 22)
  • Added 18 new pieces to the FrixCraft gallery. (May 22-24)
  • Added FrixCraft section to site credits. (May 24)
  • Added 1 new piece to the graphic design portfolio. (May 25)

Changes

  • Changed wording of FrixCraft navigation bar to be more specific. (May 22)
  • Removed most placeholders in FrixCraft descriptions. (May 22-24)
  • Attempted to fix varying heights in FrixCraft entries (May 22)
  • Fixed FrixCraft image preview thumbnails not being positioned properly (May 24)
  • Updated FrixCraft logo (May 25)
  • Updated site updates page generation to use YML data (May 25)
  • Fixed CSS on site updates page to accomodate generation changes (May 25)

April 14

Additions

Changes

  • Updated year in footer
  • Updated description for Early Luna Concept.
  • Changed various social media links in the Fan Art Gallery from Twitter/X to Bluesky.

March 17

Additions

  • Added Drevonor (replacing removed Razorback button) to links page.

2024

November

Additions

Changes

October

Additions

  • Added October 2024 to the art-a-thon section. (Oct 1)
  • Added “pjfrix Now!” button to Links page (Oct 3)
  • Added tags to blog posts (Oct 30)

Changes

  • Future links to the portfolio in the RSS feed (and ‘at-a-glance’ sidebar on the home page) should automatically take you to their respective entries. (Oct 1 thru 3)
  • Additional CSS fixes. (Oct 1 thru 11)
  • Changed FrixCraft image directory (Oct 3)
  • Permalinked “crash'23” graphic on server for FrixCraft page (Oct 3)
  • Fixed Open Graph embeds (Oct 3)
  • Added builder names to FrixCraft builds (Oct 3)
  • Updated eblu button destination on Links page (Oct 11)
  • Finished automating links section (Oct 11)
  • Fixed ‘En dashes’ breaking the RSS feeds (Oct 29)
  • Fixed incorrect timestamps on October 2024 art-a-thon entries (Oct 29)

September

The site codebase has been converted from Jekyll to Hugo, among various other changes behind the scenes.

Additions

Changes

  • Codebase moved from Jekyll to Hugo (see above) (Sep 15 thru 23)
  • Layout for the dream log fixed for smaller displays (Sep 21)
  • Updated earlier Site Updates (Sep 22)
  • Updated Mercator & TrustyCranberry buttons (Sep 21 & 23)
  • Moved the Fan Art Gallery to the Miscellaneous section (Sep 23)
  • Changed ‘about’ and 'links’ graphics in the miscellaneous section to be more accurate to their contents (Sep 23)
  • Tweaked the layout on the site updates page (you are here) (Sep 23)
  • Updated landing page following recent cohost announcement (Sep 26)
  • Fixed dead links around the website (Sep 26)
  • Temporarily replaced “credits” link in footer with the about page (Sep 26)
  • Re-organized and cleaned up the credits page and linked to it in the Miscellaneous section. (Sep 28 & 30)
  • Added links to the Neocities feed and Newgrounds profile to the landing page (Sep 30)

August 13

Additions

  • Added 2 new pieces to the 3D art portfolio.

Changes

  • Removed ‘wirthec’ button from website per request.
  • Changed landing page graphic back to initial graphic. (somehow, I knew that I would forget.)

June

Additions

  • Added Fan Art Gallery to the Portfolio. (June 4)
  • Added Props section to the 3D portfolio. (June 21)
  • Added 16 new pieces to the portfolio on June 21: 8 (3D), 4 (2D), 3 (remakes), 1 (grafx).
  • Added 4 new pieces to the Fan Art gallery on June 30. (happy birthday, me!) (June 30)

Changes

  • Moved the “Windows 95” piece into the Props section of the 3D portfolio. (June 21)
  • Updated Credits and About pages (June 21)
  • Moved “Beige Machine” into the Props section of the 3D portfolio. (June 23)
  • Corrected the year for “Home Office” (June 23
  • Updated the galleries to display descriptions of the work (June 23)
  • Corrected gaps between thumbnails in the galleries (June 23)
  • Changed landing page graphic for the occasion. (June 30)
  • Updated age on the About page. (June 30)

May

Additions

Changes

April 21

Changes

  • Specific Portfolio entries in the RSS feeds redirect to their respective group pages instead of dead links.
  • 'lynk’ button replaces the ‘sstarm’ button in links section.

March

Additions

Changes

  • Portfolio added to main RSS feed (March 29)
  • Fixed formatting on the RSS feed (March 29)
  • Using Sass variables as fallback for devices that do not support CSS variables (March 29)
  • Changed the CSS button to redirect to that page's RSS feed, if available. (March 30)

February

Additions

Changes

  • Removed the ‘Razorback’ (no longer in service) and ‘sstarm’ (incorrect redir) buttons in the links section. (Feb 15)
  • ‘plasticity’ button redirects to his Neocities page again. (Feb 15)
  • Updated present year in the footer (Feb 27)
  • Fixed site colors for miscellaneous pages (Feb 27)
  • Rewrote the entire Prevue Guide Emulation Tutorial from scratch. Keeping old pages up temporarily as an archive. (Feb 27)

January

Slowly rolling out updates to the site again.

Additions

  • Added ‘OK K.O.!’ (v2, late-2023) piece to 3D portfolio (Jan 23)

Changes

2023

November

Changes

  • Added “meta” tag with viewport to article layout (Nov 5)
  • Scroll bars now change color depending on page styling (Nov 5)
  • Optimized the sidebar (on the homepage and blog pages) for mobile devices. (Nov 5)
  • Fixed a bug within the FrixCraft portfolio where a caption on the ‘3D Pinball: Space Cadet’ piece overwrote the other. (Nov 26)

October 30

3.0 (public beta 1) gets its first revision.

Additions

  • Added metadata on pages where there is none

Changes

  • Add viewport to pages that I forgot to include it on

October 29

After about 2 years of initial planning and about a year of development, site version 3.0 (public beta 1) finally goes live.

Additions

  • Minecraft voxel art portfolio (Oct 28)
  • About page (Aug 30)
  • Latest dream added to dream log (Oct 23)
  • Characters page, now with a custom layout! (Sep 30)

Changes

  • Overall site layout refresh (May 13, 2022)
  • Entire codebase refresh (May 14, 2022)
  • Fonts self-hosted (Jul 17, 2022)
  • Cleaned up portfolio (Oct 23)
  • New landing page (Oct 26)
  • Update pages to match tilde format (Oct 29)
  • Temporarily removed radio link from Miscellaneous page (Oct 29)

2022

January 9

Very small update shortly after regaining access to web server

Additions

2021

November 12

Park City web server migrates to a new server. No human changes were made to the website during this period.

Changes

  • Various PHP pages break across the entire domain, including the “old sketches” page in the Portfolio.

March

Very subtle changes across the website.

Additions

  • New 88x31 button created (Mar 29)
  • New footer implemented to various pages (Mar 29)

Changes

  • Quietly removed two pieces from portfolio (would be re-added in the future) (Mar 5)
  • Radio station page briefly relaunched on another web host, linked back on the Miscellaneous index page (Mar 25)

2020

November

Additions

Changes

  • Portfolio and Miscellaneous index pages were given a new layout (Nov 8)
  • Radio station page removed due to inactivity (Nov 8)

October 16

Changes

  • A few pages were rearranged. (to-do: figure out which ones were)

August 1

Changes

  • Blog layout changed to use tables and fit with other pages

July 14

Additions

  • Radio station page

early-2020

Additions

  • Dream log added to website

2019

December

Changes

  • Website moved from Neocities to Park City, allowing for more freedom with hosting files of many formats. (Dec 7)
  • Thumbnails use square aspect ratio. (Dec 20)

September 5

Additions

  • Metadata (open graph) implemented for pages.

Changes

  • Updated layout of blog.

August

Additions

  • 404 page (was only viewable on Neocities) (Aug 28)

Changes

  • Dark mode: overall color scheme inverted. (Aug 23)
  • Site-wide font changed from Comfortaa to Lexend (Aug 27)
  • Updated header graphics/banners (Aug 28)
  • Lexend Mega and Lexend Exa used for heading font (Aug 28)

May

Additions

  • 2D art portfolio added (May 14)
  • Sidebar added to blog section, initially displaying just the most recent entries. (May 29)

Changes

  • Works in portfolio display their title and year when hovered over (May 13)
  • Some buttons in the footer were replaced (May 13)
  • One of the buttons in footer did not redirect to the proper website (May 15)
  • Fonts page was organized (May 15)
  • Updated links section with 88x31 buttons for linking back (May 15)

April

Version 1.0 launches. The entire site was rewritten from the ground up.

Additions

  • Portfolio section, featuring the 3D art portfolio (Apr 16)
  • Miscellaneous section, featuring links & supported browsers (Apr 16)
  • Fonts page was added to portfolio. (Apr 29)

Changes

  • Codebase refresh (duh) (Apr 12)
  • A new landing page design (Apr 12)
  • Navigation bar was fixed (Apr 16)

2018

late-2018

Additions

  • Previous website abandoned for another, also hosted on Neocities.

2017

November

Changes

  • Final ‘Free Programs’ list update (Nov 17)

October

Additions

  • Free Programs/‘Programs I Recommend’ page created (Oct 2)
  • Site updates page created (Oct 4)
  • Other sites (Links) page created (Oct 5)

August

Additions

  • Projects (Portfolio) page created. Featuring placeholders for Blender (3D art) and Paint (2D art) work. (Aug 11)
  • Blog page created (Aug 9)

April 12

First version of the site starts on PajamaFrix.neocities.org.

Additions

  • First layout: sidebar on left; main content on right (filling up most of the screen)