7/5/2019
The Nightmare
With the advent of real communities on the steem block chain, PalNet and SteemLeo, and I am sure more to come it is getting very hard to keep track of them. I like having easy access to things I look at on a daily basis. That includes things not block chain related. My menu bars are full. I personally can really only deal with about seven tabs maximum. More than that and I have no idea who is who. I know people that have twenty or thirty tabs open and several windows, and know what each one is, that is definitely not me.
HTML to the rescue?
In the early days of the internet when there were service providers by the dozens in towns and cities and where choices were easily available and affordable, there were individual Home Pages. We would make changes then use ftp and upload our page. I knew how to HTML then I think it was version 3 HTML. That was a long time ago. Big companies bought out the smaller service providers, then large companies bought out the big companies, and now if you want a personal home page on the internet it is with a conglomerate that tells you what you can and can not do, and bans you for minor violations of unknown policy, or because someone complained.
One of the reason I really took to steemit when my wife told me about it. With real communities and the ever expanding nature of the block chain technology I can see the whole rinse and repeat of the cycle. Right now I see the tech as in the early days of the BBS stage, everyone wants to run their own BBS, so we have waleshares, weku, and a ton of others that pretty much started off of the steemit experimental idea, of a social network.
With all the work @aggroed has done and brought together people capable of building the block chain into the next phase. The AOL's, CompuServe, and Genie's of the block chain. I am sure there are a lot of other people behind all these resent developments, but we now have a place that soon any one who wants one, can make and have their own personal block chain home page. A lot of the add-ins to personalize a home page are already to go. You have tokenBBS, just like the old school supplemental chat forums and guest books, you have dsound you can link to just like the old style RealPlayer radio, and you have d-tube to replace the quicktime video player.
The Future
I am not quite ready to have my own on-block chain web site, I may get there one day but I have a lot of relearning to do, and need to learn somethings I never had to learn in the past, somethings do change, sometimes it becomes easier, sometimes it becomes harder.
I have started the relearning process, and this is why I have been somewhat slow on content, and slow on comments. So I would like to present my work in progress. Most of my learning/relearning has come from The W3School. A lot of good information and pretty nice easy to follow examples. Along with the HTML they also have java script and ruby and python lessons and examples.
My work in progress
Here is what I have for a starting page so far.
I am not ready to fully jump into the home page set-up on line like I did in the past. However I do need a cetralized location for all thing steem block chain related. I have two accounts, after talking to Asher a little bit in comments I may end up with a few vote-follow accounts. Two accounts three sites, three feed, three wallets. I can multi-task a little bit still, but I like the ease of everything in one place. I have the drop down menu bar working. Here is what it looks like:
I even learned how to make an About button, I am not sure I like how it is displayed in chrome, but it looks fine in Firefox. just like the old days, you have to look at your HTML on as many browsers as possible because they all do things a little bit different, so much for standardization, they still don't have it.
My about button:
I know it is not much to look at right now, I do know how to add background images and to stretch them to make them look good, but while doing the building I want to keep it as simple as possible right now. One of the next things I want is to be able to do is a settings type script where I can easily change my background pictures and font styles, but I still have a long long way to go on the scripting side of things, and CSS, (cascading style sheets).
Right now it is pretty easy to add the links, and I think I have the navigation bar properties and order figured out now, at least for today.