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 site to see how i scrapped everything together if something interests you-my email is also always open for questions.
tools/assets
i use visual studio code and 11ty to code my site and then deploy it to neocities.
the header font is diamend pixel, and the body font is computer modern.
i use coolors to select my site's color palettes. the site buttons are designed by me.
whenever possible, i include sources in the file names of my graphics; otherwise, they are sourced from tumblr, pinterest, or neocities sites. images are dithered and compressed with dithermark and tinypng respectively.
codes
base: sadgrl (archived)
formatting: petrapixel
theme switcher: alpha centauri / kalechips
blog: zonelots
comments: virtual observer
music player: adilene (archived)
analytics: goatcounter
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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 try not 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
- no auto-playing videos or audio
- static versions of my site button