Checkpoint 2: Ambitions and challenges

[nepenthee]

The challenge has garnered a good amount of webmasters, from familiar to new faces, yay! To anyone reading this while still debating whether to sign up: Do consider joining us even if you might not finish your shrine by the deadline. You are invited to make use of this space if it motivates you and drives the completion of your shrine along!

My questions this week: Do you have any specific plans for your shrine aside from the challenge theme, e.g. is there anything specific you want to achieve, something new you want to try out, a skill you want to pick up? Where do you foresee your biggest challenges?

Again, feel free to chat about anything, no need to answer any of these questions. Also note that any previous checkpoint posts will stay open and you are more than welcome to reply and continue conversations there!

Comments

[lexicalcrow]

I have a fairly clear idea in my head for what I want my shrine to look like. I just need to brush up on my HTML and CSS skills to enable it to happen. I want it to feel like a devotional shrine, and I know the layout I want, with a left nav/side bar, and a header at the top, and the text in the middle, with a footer at the bottom. I just don't know how to code that yet lol. :D So I'm doing HTML tutorials atm while I work on the text for the shrine.

I also have a basic site map sorted. I've titled it the Gospel of Alex, and I want it to be like, part narrative/story about Divine Greg, and then the canon stuff divided into a few pages, then the fanfic, though I've not got a good name for that other than 'the fanon' but i'll work on it lol. I basically want it to feel like a religious page, which I have a lot of experience making content for, but not necessarily coding, so. I want it to feel like entering a shrine for an obscure god, and this is all the information about Him. Stories, information, and devotional writings (fanfic), perhaps. Something like that, anyway.

It's a bit of a mess at the moment, but I did get a splash page up, I just need to tweak the text and the font choice perhaps. And the colours. Some of the colours aren't quite what I would like them to be yet as I'm still deciding on a colour scheme. I can't decide on what background to use, because there's one that would be Very Taskmaster, but I am also drawn to a more parchment-style background to make it feel idk. More like a religious text type of thing. But yeah. That's where I'm at right now. Once I get my halloween fic out of the way, I can devote more time to this.

[velvetdusk]

I swear, every update you share about this project makes it sound more alive—I can see the shrine taking shape with each post. The idea of the Gospel of Alex as both myth and manual feels perfectly in tune with that surreal reverence you've been describing in the show. I love that you're building the layout while writing the scripture—it mirrors the Taskmaster house itself, a sacred space assembling its own lore brick by brick.

The parchment background sounds divine for the tone you're chasing; it gives that aged, devotional atmosphere, like a gospel that’s been copied and smudged a hundred times. But I'm also haunted by the idea of sneaking the Taskmaster imagery in underneath, as if His presence is bleeding faintly through the page. That might give you both aesthetics at once.