I didn't want to exclude anyone not using weblog, nor necessarily people not even using omg.lol, so it is open to anyone who wants to participate! The more the better, we need more blogs and more blogging! If I sound excited, I am! I really enjoyed NaBloPoMo last November, and the feeling of accomplishment at the end was unbeatable. I actually was envious of the Wiggle Work folks I follow who had their own challenge in February, so I felt like creating one of my own.

It is all rather informal, other than brainstorming on the omg.lol Discourse forum and tossing random thoughts around on the omg.lol Discord. I finally threw together a small page on weblog, originally just another post. But as I had been playing with some icon/logo/type design after discovering Shantell Sans font, and I'd recently taken a deep-dive into the joys and power of color-scheme and system colors, I decided to go a different route with the page.

This leads me to my topic for WeblogPoMo.

I've been sitting on a work-in-progress, "A Running List of modern CSS I am Learning," and it has been going nowhere quickly. Not that I am not learning anything but that I am doing a poor job documenting it and I'm definitely not documenting it in a single monolithic blog post like that. I discovered during NaBloPoMo that some topics need to be a series. One of these large topics, microformats, also ended up being a series and is currently eight parts.

How this ties into the small page I put together for the WeblogPoMo announcement itself is that I'd like to start creating these one-off pages for little experiments while I'm learning new CSS. The WeblogPoMo 2024 page is one of these little experiments. I'd love to take it further and probably will with one of my blog posts for WeblogPoMo—now we're just getting meta!

Though this page is part of weblog, it is a standalone file that's pretty much entirely HTML. It only includes a few assets from weblog proper, and instead has its own CSS file and related assets, such as the title font (the aforementioned Shantell Sans). This is what I'd like to do for my WeblogPoMo topic: a series of experiments with CSS on one-off pages using a very stripped down color-scheme with system colors framework. This will include things like cascade layers, color functions, CSS grid experiments, responsive typography, container queries, and more things I can't even think of right now.

What I'm not sure of at this point is if every post will be its own succinct experiment or if several days will share experiments. I don't expect to be able to come up with an entirely new and complete experiment every day, but I should be able to write through my process and what I've gotten done, what snags I might have hit, questions I have, that type of thing. I am definitely a "learn by doing" type of person, and I find myself posting on Mastodon as "I do" so hopefully this is just a transfer of venue 😅

So this is it, this is what I want to work on and blog about, what about you? Is this something you want to try too? Check out the WeblogPoMo 2024 page and see if it sounds like fun to you! Nine days until I start in earnest. My next task is to come up with that list of modern CSS that I want to tackle with experiments.

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• Wiggle Work
• Shantell Sans
• What I've learned about CSS color-scheme and friends.
• Diving into indiewebify.me & microformats, a series

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