Links
Personal Sites
Neighbors
Check out these neat sites made by some really interesting people!
Beau Monde
Websites and designs that influenced my site’s layout, pages, and style. Take some time to visit them; they’re as interesting as they are visually stunning!
Webweaving
Webmastery
Patterns for Personal Websites
Code Generators & Guides
Beveled CSS Button/Box Code Generator
Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
Graphics, Materials, & Editors
Curios
Materials Science & Engineering
Optical Mineralogy - Resources on optical mineralogy and petrography techniques
IUCr - Resources on crystallography and structural science
Engineering Archives - Comprehensive resource for engineering topics and principles; really cool site, has a calculator and notepad and everything!
Dissemination of IT for the Promotion of Materials Science - Micrographs, simulations, and videos
Virtual Microscope - High-resolution microscope images of geological samples
Materials Project - Search for materials by chemistry, composition, or property
Fundamental Physical Constants from NIST
Non-Material Sciences
Algorithmic Botany - Research and models in algorithmic botany
Messybeast Cats - Great source of info about cat genetics
Fashion
Year in Fashion - Hour-long documentaries chronicling runway fashion by year
Etc.
Rare Seeds - Site where you can order tons of different heirloom and open-pollinated seeds
Misc.
Ursula K. Le
Guin's blog
9-Minute Wrist Injury Prevention for Gamers - This might be
marketed towards gamers (cringe, I know), but I actually use it every day as a warmup
before getting started on my computer
Credits
If there’s anything on this site that wasn’t made by me and hasn’t already been credited elsewhere, you’ll find it listed here.
- Fonts used on this site are 'Victor Mono' by Rune Bjørnerås and 'Bitter' by Sol Matas. Both are available on Google Fonts if you want to check them out.
- The image-based navigation menu was developed by Hill House.
- Here is the code for the Periodic Table used in my shrines hub.
- Tooltips plugin by malihu.
- The stickers used in my fashion page come from the assets in Elva's presets. My fashion diary also includes images from the Girls Mode website.
- My FFXIV character's profile page was inspired by a Carrd template by paletterph; all code is my own.
This website also uses a few handy libraries to improve its performance and look:
- vanilla-lazyload: Keeps images, videos, and iframes from loading until they’re actually visible, speeding up the page.
- normalize.css: Helps make HTML elements look consistent across different browsers.
- Prettier: Automatically formats the code, keeping it neat and tidy without any extra effort.