Checkpoint 3: Offer & receive

[nepenthee]

Hello! How is the challenge going for you?

We have had some more sign-ups in the last while, and it’s nice to see that the event being well underway isn’t deterring people from joining. :> The event playlist is also coming along; if you happen to listen to something fitting while working on your site, do consider sharing with us!

This checkpoint’s theme is as follows: Post a WIP of your challenge shrine and ask something you’d like hear about from your fellow webmasters, web-related or not. This can be as specific or abstract as you’d like (e.g. a paragraph, a crop of the layout header, a colour scheme; coding input, style concerns, writing advice, tools etc.).

You are welcome to use this post to chat about anything related to the challenge even if you do not take part in the checkpoint theme.

Comments

[toothpastepancake]

I can't remember if I posted this yet but :') from the homepage

"Anna is negative space. Anna exists in a black hole of memory. Forgotten. Rose-tinted glasses; John thought their relationship was wonderful, but they hadn't seen each other in over a year when Anna was taken, she willingly gave up their anniversary to go to the opposite side of the universe, and she flirted with a widow during the trip to Z'Ha'Dum. The truth about Anna is coated in other people's relationships with and perceptions of her. It is intentionally obfuscated."

My question is - how did you decide what kind of content to include on your shrine? I'm kinda struggling with that. There's not a lot of Anna content in the source material; the version of her I'm making the shrine for doesn't appear for more than like, 5 seconds! I made a 3d game about her but I feel like it's not enough!

[larissa]

It depends on the site, but usually my subject informs how I want to write about it, and how much content I'm able to put out. For example, I love music, but I have no technical background in music whatsoever and can barely place specific instruments in a song, so I can't talk about that kind of thing in any depth. But it's pretty easy to write about how you feel about something, even if the resulting site is on the smaller side. (Example: my site for my favorite band is maybe 1500 words long in total, but I think it provides a pretty good starting point for anyone to check them out.)

In your case, I'd ask what drew you to this character specifically. What do you want a visitor to come away knowing or thinking about Anna — or how you feel about Anna? What matters enough to you about this subject that it's worth making a whole website about? And since this is a challenge with a specific theme, how does your subject intersect with that theme, and are there similar examples of it in the same or in other works?

I hope that offers at least some food for thought!