step 1: inspiration!
- 10 sites to draw from (initially)
- write down 2-5 interesting takeaways
- crisis city
- little animations are nice! scrolling buttons on the side, moving text, for example
- customize that music player to fit the theme! also hover sfx!
- tooltips for any extra info can be useful
- wappy's world
- develops a lovely sense of place with its art, its music, animations in the background, the windows popouts, all of it
- click sfx can be good too!
- i really feel like i'm living inside someone's mind temporarily
- kikapisite
- if you can pull it off, having a couple frames of a drawing could add some movement
- if background isn't too crowded, slight motion is great
- not too cluttered
- custom scroll bars!
- art from the outside goihng into particular sections -- dynamic
- andou zone
- interactivity with the click and drag dolls
- closable sidebar for unimportant things (e.g. updates) with custom animation!
- simple music player -- and songs should add to the feeling of place
- teasers on main page (e.g. latest blog post)
- animated indication when a link in the nav is updated
- animated bullet points!
- franny
- plenty of resources for getting started! communal and leading/helping others
- animations on hovering outside links (e.g. tamagotchi)
- spiritcellar
- 3d graphics add to sense of place
- interactions with background -- soft glow of blocks sets contrast with space bg
- research utilities! public access to info!
- oh the bookshelf is excellent and it links to gutenberg? sooooo cool
- 5am girlfriend
- animated enter page -- and with layered foreground/mid/bg
- loads of empty space to create a calming, open feel (like with fmv enter)
- shadows from layers on top of main page -- pictures in about section
- rename sections to fit aesthetic (e.g. garden, mailbox, etc.)
- bleh, uh, they might not be great/doing great. idk. cool ideas, don't link to them
- kyomaku
- incredibly deconstructionist -- no coherent shape to it at all and it's all breaking out of the box. so cool
- background animation interacting with foreground and overlapping with it!
- make external assets your own (like with the windows thing!)
- everything's so dynamic -- really just defy any sort of limitations or structure you feel is necessary
- only wonder
- such a coherent style and inspiration throughout
- unique navbar (the site map is so cute)
- cute little easter eggs!
- very clean, minimalist layout
- cinni's dream home
- optional theme change!
- post little personal creative projects, people aren't that judgemental
- line thickness should convey some emotion -- is it brittle, almost snapping? or firm and unyielding?
- homage to older internet; insert passions into everything else and imbue history into it to help others realize where they came from and how much has changed
- store and save for credits
step 2: general aestheticsc