Gem: La Taccola — candy GeoCities porch / webring lounge
Gem: La Taccola — candy GeoCities porch / webring lounge
Section titled “Gem: La Taccola — candy GeoCities porch / webring lounge”Why it fits the braid
Section titled “Why it fits the braid”La Taccola is a handmade Neocities personal homepage built as a scroll-snapped porch: starfield DOS type, candy-letter WELCOME, a lounge of 88×31 friendship chips + guestbook, then a full webring wall (Hotline, ITA anello, CD Ring / onionring widgets). Listed on MelonLand Surf Club — strong Y2K / plain-HTML craft beside 88x31 and webring furniture, not a SaaS landing.
Morning dig: rotate off Neocities Frutiger Aero / MSN shells toward MelonLand Surf Club member porches.
Layout / craft patterns worth stealing
Section titled “Layout / craft patterns worth stealing”- Full-viewport “rooms” instead of one long blog scroll:
#entrance→#lounge→#webringsas.screen-heightpanels with in-page Lounge / 🕸️🔗 / Exit nav — porch IA as stacked stages (Nekoweb and plain HTML energy). - Candy WELCOME as the enter affordance: letter GIFs (
candy-w…candy-e) wrap a link to the interior; hover swaps insparkles.gifvia background — decorative type that is the CTA. - Starfield + DOS chrome as the ground, not a theme pack: fixed
stars.pngbackground ·Px437_DOS-V/ DOS face · ghost-white on near-black panels — GeoCities night sky without a framework. - Lounge = buttons + updates as peers: guestbook chip, Neocities / Firefox Now! / anti-NFT / right-to-repair / “I made my own website” 88×31 row beside an Updates block and help-book affordance — friendship-web furniture equals content.
- Webring wall as a dedicated room: ITA webring prev/rand/next image controls, Hotline Webring slug links, CD Ring + Tarot onionring widgets — rings get a whole viewport, not a footer afterthought.
- Corner stickers as spatial memory: construction-head GIF on entrance, bookmark GIF on lounge — sticky reminders outside the content box.
- Second surface (
home.html): marquee + popover about + guestbook + own 88×31 to deep-link + playful “useless button” / fish-tank / tomato → Italian Culture — porch toys kept after you enter.
What not to copy (for product)
Section titled “What not to copy (for product)”- Broken empty button
srcs and “it’s not working I keep procrastinating” left in the live chip row — steal the density of a button lounge; ship assets audited. - Scroll-snap full-screen rooms on every product surface — keep for shrine / mood pages; app chrome usually needs a quieter single scroll.
- Hotlinked third-party webring CSS/JS as hard dependencies — embed the pattern of a ring wall; host owned widgets when you care about uptime.
Reference images
Section titled “Reference images”Entrance (starfield · candy WELCOME · Lounge / webrings / Exit nav · construction corner):
Lounge / webrings (88×31 chip row · guestbook · webring wall):
Mousehole room (mousehole/mousehole.html — tiny furnished den · mouse reading):
