Web Leftovers

DarkShadows (Online Radio)

My first website - built from a template and filled with content. Even got some experience with jQuery.

I needed a calendar for upcoming broadcasts, but I was too much of a noob to make it update automatically. So I cheated. Every month, I manually uploaded a new HTML table with the updated dates. EVERY month at midnight. Dedication or madness? Let me make it more obvious - that calendar was displaying even the current day, for 2 weeks. Then I said that "something broke".

Gintama (Czech Subtitles Website)

I learnt about usage of divs and trained my English

My online radio connected me with a fellow anime nerd who was translating Gintama into Czech. She needed a website, so I built one - this time without a template. Like a true "out of the box" thinker, I cut a massive GIMP-made design into divs. It probably ran like garbage, but it worked and she was thrilled. Then the nightmare started. Every week, she had a little problem. At first, it was okay, just some small updates, but after months of micro-adjustments, I realized, I can't keep doing this and slowly started burning out.
I kept uploading the subtitles that I helped translate to Czech, but stopped making changes to website. After some time I lost interested into the series and left it alone somewhere in the data space.

NutShop

I learnt about responsive design

A friend wanted a website to sell nuts and seeds. It wasn't a shop, it was a "shop" - no shopping cart, just email orders. I built it. Mobile optimization was hell, but I got it polished. Asked for money we agreed on and suddenly, there was a problem. “I thought it will be free.” I deleted everything and moved on. The kicker? I just wanted to see his willingness to pay, I wanted to give it to him as a gift. Dodged a bullet.

Chili Squad

Step Into the Fire, Feel the Heat, Master the Chill

This is actually my second portfolio website. My first ( Necrochili) was built from a template. I wanted to showcase my skills, but I wasn’t interested in relearning HTML and CSS from scratch at the time. I spent days stripping out features I didn’t need and redesigning the template. But then I ran into a tiny problem. Google kept auto correcting "Necrochili" to "Necrophilia". That was the final straw! That template from hell made my lovable brand name cursed! So I rebranded to Chili Squad.
Building a website from scratch is intimidating until you actually start. Once I did, I had a working prototype within hours. The hardest part? Design choices. Rounded corners or sharp edges? What colors match? Should links be underlined? After too much overthinking, I finally just made a website I loved, not a template designed for masses.
Now, with Chili Squad complete, I needed something to keep coding at work, home, or on the bus. So I started with JavaScript.