about the site
cervidaze is hand-coded by me—with immense, immense amounts of help from designers much more experienced and tenacious than me. the site name is a reference to the family taxonomy for deer, cervidae. please feel free to inspect my code to see how i scrapped everything together if something interests you.
tools/assets
i use visual studio code to code my site and then manually deploy it to neocities.
the header font is mondwest, and the body font is pixel operator. i use coolors to select my site's color palettes. the site buttons are hand-drawn by me. i try to include the source of my graphics in the file names whenever possible.
codes
layout: sadgrl
formatting: petrapixel
theme switcher: kalechips
blog: zonelots
comments: virtual observer
music player: adilene
analytics: goatcounter
accessibility
my goal is to make cervidaze as comfortable as possible to browse, no matter what device it's pulled from. i am someone particularly sensitive to suddenly loud and flashing stimuli, and i would never want to replicate the same hostile experiences in my own space.
my site will always be a work in progress, but this is what i have implemented so far:
- mobile responsiveness
- properly contrasted site colors
- semantic html tagging
- dark mode toggle
- alt text for relevant images
- absolutely no auto-playing videos or audio and no flashing images
- static and slowly animated versions of my site button