my versions of a couple of little fun things that are going around:

knowember, get to know your blogger, (original prompts by Robert Birming)

my nine albums: the sound that made me (make your own at my9albums.com)

(and if you missed my Halloween redesign, you can still catch the archived version here.)

i made a little (but not particularly subtle) tweak to my homepage header for Halloween! ive always wanted to do something different with that header, so i guess this has broken the stalemate...

there are also a few cool Halloween links on my new(ish) hot stuff page (have i mentioned that one yet?

the alternative web: thoughts about indie web vs social media

ive collected another four "100 questions for webmasters" pages spotted around the around the web. my massive list now contains responses from 112 different webmasters!

new entries: www.cablehare.com, dudalog.neocities.org, wtpi.neocities.org, & pieceofthepie.online

a random note turned into a little css tutorial: the colour of hyperlinks.

i joined a new webring! the Creatively Weird Webring :) see it on my homepage.

messing around with octothorpes, i think i love it.

(or badges, whatever you call them) some lovely new people added to my neighbourhood: and here's a cool hitchhiker's themed button by divergent rays: i also added my site to this new pxlarea.com thingy. you can find me at grid position 42x1 (im not sure what the point of that was, but i guess another incoming link and another pretty button can't hurt) (i also found this one via divergentrays) oh yeah and ive made my own little button for the ctrl+shift+3 community:

well i finally decided to do my note section with zonelets

(hmm, i thought i had also sent a webmention but i dunno if it worked)

i'm reviving the old notes section (which is not a blog) so i can have somewhere to write notes.

here are two related thoughts: i think i hate my web site which most definitely isn't a blog.

it's been a strange month, but i think i've finally completed my notes for small web september 2026.

(from now on when i don't have a lot of new stuff to announce, you might be lucky and get a "weekly notes" style post from me)

another massive questionnaire (i had loads of fun answering this one) and this time it's not about making web sites!

original questions from Sam's Solar System

check-in two is all about accessibility (i'm really behind, but i've been busy on other stuff.) the main related change around here is that most of my pages now have a dark/light mode option.

i guess here is the problem with declaring myself "not really a blogger" where do i actually put everything?

i want to show you my work on webmentions, but do i write all about it here in the RSS feed? (this was just supposed to be an update feed, NOT A BLOG!) or do i write it on my original webmentions page? yeah, obviously, but my webmention revival is supposed to be for small web september so surely i should write about it there instead???

well for now, here are a few of my pages with different webmention layouts i'm almost proud of:

• the dinosaur on the bench
• grass-roots GIFs
• sitemap

(more information to follow, if i can decide how)

guys, we've DONE IT!

when i discovered the 100 questions for webmasters by MOUSEcky, i added to the bottom of my page a few links to other people who had also answered the questionnaire. the list grew and it grew, some people emailed me with their links, and i did a bit of my own searching. so today i can show you a list of 100 questions for webmasters ANSWERED BY 100 WEBMASTERS! (actually the current number is 102: that's 10,200 total answers!) and i'm in shock, amazing stuff!

just a quick update while i remember: my response to the five Ws of reading.

here are a few lovely web sites people i've recently added to my button wall! (a few of these have been on there for ages, i just keep getting too overwhelmed to post updates... i also dont really have the mental capacity right now to write proper descriptions, sorry) anyway, hi guys, welcome! (if i've forgotten to link back to you, please drop me a message with your url.)

this event is organised by smallweb.dreamwidth.org for which i have registered. (they forced me to create a LiveJournal thingy that i don't even want!) anyway, i'll primarily be posting my notes here.

i have to admit when i first started making a list of people who had answered the 100 questions for webmasters by MOUSEcky, i had no idea it would get this big and webmasters would still be emailing me months later with their links... my list now contains NINETY (that's nine-zero) web sites!

six new additions: acdw.net, alamar.neocities.org, brachypelmide.neocities.org, mew151.neocities.org, willascool.neocities.org, zombieish.neocities.org

thanks to everyone who has contacted me with their 100 answer pages, keep them coming, id love to have 100 authors on the list!

(oh yeah ive also joined Willa's cool RADIORING radiohead webring because, you know, webrings and radiohead)

well i didn't manage to get anything done for html day this year, so thank you to Ross A. Baker for bringing the HTML tasting menu! his bite-sized benchmarks can be used to test your css, so fork it... here's my (very base) shen's tasting menu. (needs work, but) cool!

bit out of sorts today. anyway here is my attempt to contribute to the mixtape pixel club by ChAoTiC gOoDe:

(i don't think i can get anything done for html day, but then i don't really need a special day to write html)

i've updated my 100 questions for webmasters page a bit because a handful of my answers were aging like milk already (unlike myself, natch.) and just when i thought i'd collected everyone else's answers, i've found four more: gg8473.com, layercake.moe, lucksiyo.xyz, and mevd...

The Murder of Aimee Pike

added seven more links to my big list of people answering the now-legendary 100 questions for webmasters, so that's now 80 webmasters on the list and 8,000 individual answers, cool! (i'll try to highlight the new entries on the actual page) (also my own answers aren't aging ...

well, this update was supposed to be about a new shriny-type page i made on a lazy morning about the dinosaur on the bench. however, the situation is spinning out of control developing rapidly... before i went to press with this update, Polyducks had already built his own sh...

a little bit of creative procrastination, i've created a new 88x31 button campaign just for fun: go click on a wall!

finally got around to tidying up a few more of those pesky unsorted links that are cluttering up the homepage! moved to my T'INTERWEB TIMELINE: The Human Story of the Open Web (zeldman) • A Website To End All Websites Henry (from online) • Coyote In Praise of Links • The in...

to celebrate my new domain name i've made myself one of those little all-in-one contact pages with all my info in one place (uh, you know, should anyone need it...) connect like this!

shens.world/connect

among some of the changes ive been trying around here is to break some of my content into smaller, stand-alone html files. so i wrote my own little js utility called loadexternalstuff.js and documented the whole process in my dev notes.

(hopefully someone someday will find these useful!)