I got so caught up getting lost in my research I didn’t realise how easy it would be to recover my old sites. I mean. My costume site folder is out of control. But FrazzledFrau isn’t. I really need the ability to view thumbnails of the html files- it’s a lie that you can’t btw. You can get thumbnails of all document formats. But it’s been shifted online. And it used to be on by default, and many OS can still do this.

And an update- woo! Finding the correct escape character to find all the copies I had of files (up to 24 of them) means I now do indeed have a full copy of FF as she was. She looks good. Very little needed to make her work on modern devices- but that comes down to using best practices at the time. The text could be bigger on the chronological list and I need to get text to wrap rather than make people scroll to the side, but that’s trivial. And I do have Plans(tm).

To start with this is how she looked when I screencapped her in 2008.

Not a bad use of the real estate of expected screen sizes. But what about now in 2025?

Oh, that’s a lot of clear space but a bit too much. And the text in the menu is too small. If I crop around the content:

So I really want this while element to scale better. On a landscape screen I want that top to bottom height, in portrait I want the text to wrap on the right and the title to scale down. I was using php and css by this time but it will be a little work regardless.

Oh look- my typos. Yes. I see them. I’ve been confronted by my typos across time this week- they are so much worse on a smart screen- which is so very predictable for my hands. But I make them by default.

Oh and I have better site stats and people who visit my site now are back to being mostly PC based not hand held. I suspect that is down to me not bribing platforms I mean paying platforms to boost my posts, but I also got rid of social buttons so I know people aren’t sharing on their devices. But I did that deliberately to protect visitors to my site.

You see those social sharing buttons contribute to off and on platform tracking. And I don’t want to contribute to that. I will try to create my own sharing buttons- because at least that way people are opting in not landing on my site and not knowing. It’s not as bad as it could be- I can put them in the footer.

It’s why I haven’t got comments enabled as well. Though that goes both ways.

Anyway.

I also have both of my main landing pages (the sparkly version and the toon version) and that was nice.

I wish I’d kept the editing files for the sparkly one. It was just a stamp I think that created the effects.

AHMAGAHD! So cute!

EVEN CUTER!

Yeah. So. Plans(tm).