Tag: dark web design

bookmark_borderVibe Coded for the First Time – kawaiioccultpets.com

Posted on by savethesavages

I vibe coded a website for the first time using Claude/Sonnet 4.6. But first things first, what is vibe coding? It’s a way to speed up your workflow by prompting an AI assistant to build it for you. Building this myself would’ve taken me weeks since I’m not a hardcore web programmer but Claude just sped it up in 1-2 days.

I wanted it to be fun and cute and just for me. I didn’t want to think about monetizing it ’cause then it wouldn’t be fun anymore. So above are screenshots that I turned into an animated gif.

It’s basically a site where you can customize your pet. It’s an ode to my favorite game of all time, SuperPoke! Pets from MySpace days. It had the cutest graphics, pets, habitats and items and it was the first time I ever spent real money on virtual goods.

I managed to save a jpeg of my pet tiger Maru:

Anyways, the site is occultkawaiipets.com – it’s gonna be a work in progress!

bookmark_borderMyspace Neon Dream 2008 and Beyond

Posted on by savethesavages

In between rage cleaning the house while listening to Metallica’s Orion on repeat, I stumbled upon a gif with my custom graphics; it was a repeating background of my first tiger tattoo, a scanned drawing of my angel bunny and a rose I traced over a real photo in Photoshop that I would use for Myspace (IYKYK) back in the early 2000’s. I honestly don’t even know how I did this but of course, I animated it. I also looked through the layers and found an old screenshot and a customized contact box, lol.

Customizing my Myspace profile was how I started to learn web design; because I was so obsessed with my profile looking original, I would always tinker with the custom CSS code so I can make it look however I wanted. And then I would make a custom background and someone would steal it. Good times, lol.

I really miss blogging and reading my friends’ thoughts. I miss Roxy and the OTP crew.

bookmark_borderSHERMGRAFIK Website Screenshots

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It used to be so fun, challenging and also frustrating building websites; I was so obsessed about how mine looked and I was constantly tweaking it. The site was built in HTML via Dreamweaver, I was using iframes and tables to align elements. At the time, everybody was doing it that way.

Then WordPress came out.

All this reminiscing came about because I was thinking about Futura 2000’s website around 2004 when I started learning web design.

His website stood out to me because it was very experimental and out there. Everybody was using Flash to make their website graphics interactive.

However, I didn’t learn how to code actual HTML until 2014.

So yeah, before I switched to Save the Savages – Shermgrafik was my first ever domain.

Want to take a trip down www memory lane? You can see old versions of websites at Internet Archive.

bookmark_borderGoodbye to My Dark Colored Website

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Hello dark type on white background! I’ve been resisting this for quite sometime now, I just really, really prefer white type on black background. I don’t just like black, I LOVE IT. I feel protected when I wear black, vulnerable & exposed when I wear white (like I just know I’m going to get some kind of food stain on me & I’ll be upset for the rest of the time); not sure how I can relate that to website readability & color but anyways! Just seems like every freakin website I visit now is a template or has a white background; don’t get me wrong – it’s nice & clean, but everything looks the same.

But from reading a few things online a lot of people say that most prefer to read on a white background, especially if it’s text heavy. Something to do with astigmatism too.

Luckily with this WP theme along with my CSS skills I was able to compromise – my logo up top sits on a black background, it looks more striking that way. That’s enough for me & makes me happy.

Yup, if you are an artist/designer like me, you would get nitpicky and obsessive about this kind of stuff too.

If you are having a hard time deciding, this old article on The Do’s and Don’ts of Dark Web Design might help you decide.

p.s. I am aware that comments aren’t working right now. I’ve been trying to figure it out so bare with me. Thanks for reading!