About me!
Hello, and welcome to my webpage! My name is SliverOfStraw, or Technoboop, but I prefer SliverOfStraw these days. Its a name I took from Rain World since thats one of my favourite games!
My general interests are gaming, programming, and reading. If you can't tell already, I absolutely love Tolkien's Legendarium, which includes The Lord Of The Rings and The Silmarillion.
I am currently studying maths, further maths and physics at school, thought I want to do computer science at University. My school just doesn't offer a computer science A-level course unfortunately.
About this webpage!
This webpage was made entirely from scratch by me as a fun summer project. It is essentially a space for me to mess around and learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript. I love the feel of personal, home-made websites, and seeing other people's Neocities pages made me realise I could for sure make my own! It will mostly consist of showcasing stuff I like, I'll start with a page dedicated to Tolkien and go from there. Soon™
I love hover effects, or really any interactive elements - try hovering over some stuff on this page and see what happens!
Make your own webpage!
Making your own website is great as it allows for your own creative expression, you can basically do whatever you want! In an age of the internet where most people use flat pre-existing sites, its nice to have a corner of the web to call your own.
So, if you want to make a website, you gotta learn HTML. Its a fairly basic language that handles the structure of a page. When you have the basics of HTML down, you can start learning CSS, which handles how the page looks. I recommend W3schools for these, that is what I used and it worked great for me! Some more complex things (like for example the jukebox here) will require Javascript, so when you have a good grasp of the other two, that is the next step.
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I think it is important to remember that your own webpage is personal to you - its fine to get inspiration from other pages, but try to focus on your own webpage first. Comparison is the thief of joy!
I'm not too experienced in webpage construction myself, this is my first one, but if I was to give out any advice I would say learn how flexboxes work! They make page structure SO much easier and... well, more flexible.
Finally, if you plan on using GIFs in your site, you might find you need to edit them because they don't loop infinitely or some other reason. I strongly recommend ezgif.com for this as it is easy to use and has a lot of options for editing!
↓ These are some pages I found helpful when making my own webpage! ↓
Tolkien's works
Tolkien's Legendarium (the all-encompasing term for his created world) is my absolute favourite creative work of all time. It is a world Tolkien spent his entire life making, and even then didn't entirely finish it; he envisioned it as an alternate world history full of magic, myth and fantasy. Tales of tragedy, tales of glory, from the creation story Ainulindalë to the destruction of the One Ring and then the age of men (about the fourth age). Despite being a relative old work now, and being essentially a baseline for modern fantasy, it still gives me a sense of wonder that nothing else has managed to achieve to such an extent.
Tolkien only managed to finish two major works of the Legendarium in his life, those being The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings:
However, he left many works unfinished that would eventually be edited and published by his son, Christopher Tolkien, such as the Silmarillion and the Children of Hurin:
If you want to read some of the lore of the Legendarium, I have a separate page (In progress!) you can access by clicking on the Doors of Durin... But only if you can decrypt the password! (or you can be boring and access the page from the sidebar). You can learn how to read and write Tengwar by visiting the Tengwar page (also not yet done)!
Games I like
Just a list of random games I like, not really in any order. Keep in mind, I only play games on PC!
Generally I prefer story over gameplay which seems to run contrary to what a lot of people think lol.
I strongly recommend playing any game on this list! Might make a separate page with more detail on each game later.
I have a gaming spreadsheet on the left sidebar if you want to see a more comprehensive list!
The unnamed games are Omori and Hollow Knight, if you were wondering!
Buttons!
