<p>11 September 2023 marks the first anniversary of Leilukin's Hub, my personal website, hosted on Neocities. I am proud to be able to succeed in not only building my own website, but also updating, improving and maintaining my website to achieve my vision for my own personal hub on the internet outside social media platforms.</p>
<p>I registered a Neocities account on 28 May 2022, while my own website, Leilukin's Hub, was officially launched on 11 September 2022. I set up this website because I wanted to have a personal web page outside social media platforms to gather various stuff and resources I had created or compiled on online spaces throughout the years. Furthermore, I settled for Neocities because I like the flexibility of customisation by coding my website with HTML, CSS and JavaScript. Initially, I considered and tried <ahref="https://carrd.co/">Carrd</a> to create my web pages, but free accounts on Carrd can only add up to 100 elements on a web page, which is not enough for my purpose.</p>
<p>This site's <ahref="/changelogs/">changelog</a> and <ahref="/changelogs/layouts">layout archive</a> document the evolution of Leilukin's Hub throughout the past year: from the humble beginning of a simple black background with white text and light brown titles, to the responsive, mobile-friendly, full-fledged personal website with its own site button, <ahref="/feed.xml">RSS feed</a>, a <ahref="https://htmltomd.com/blog/">blog</a> and multiple <ahref="/shrines/">shrines</a>.</p>
<p>This site's <ahref="/changelogs/">changelog</a> and <ahref="/changelogs/layouts">layout archive</a> document the evolution of Leilukin's Hub throughout the past year: from the humble beginning of a simple black background with white text and light brown titles, to the responsive, mobile-friendly, full-fledged personal website with its own site button, <ahref="/feed.xml">RSS feed</a>, a <ahref="/blog">blog</a> and multiple <ahref="/shrines">shrines</a>.</p>
<p>Coding my own website was also an excellent way to put my HTML and CSS knowledge and skills into good use. I already had basic knowledge of HTML and CSS from what I learned from my teenage years of customising my blog on Blogger.</p>
<p>Working on Leilukin's Hub had ignited my interest in coding, so I took courses to learn more about HTML, CSS, JavaScript and more about coding, and in turn, I put my new coding knowledge into good use by improving and adding more features to Leilukin's Hub, which was totally worth it. Therefore, I have also <ahref="/resources/web-building-resources">compiled resources for building websites</a> here for those who need it.</p>
<p>You may feel intimidated by the idea of building your website because you do not know how to code, but good news! There are plenty of resources for you to learn HTML, CSS and JavaScript, including free courses. Neocities also has <ahref="/tutorial/html/">its own HTML course</a> for you to get started. Happy coding!</p>
<li>Improve the site's <ahref="/feed.xml">RSS feed</a>:
<ul>
<li>Make RSS feeds <ahref="https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/automatically-discoverable-rss-feeds/">automatically discoverable</a> by feed readers</li>
<li>Use time and time zone to make feed items' timestamps accurate</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">6 August 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>New article: <ahref="/articles/accessible-footnotes">"How I (Tried to) Implement Accessible Footnotes"</a>, which is also my entry for <ahref="https://32bit.cafe/">32-Bit Cafe</a>'s <ahref="https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/">Community Code Jam #5: Back to School</a>.</li>
<li>Added my first publicly released code snippet on this website: <ahref="/projects/snippets/disability-pride-flag-background">Responsive Disability Pride Flag CSS Background</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">27 July 2024</h3>
<h3class="date-style">26 July 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>Leilukin's Hub and all its subsites have been migrated to <ahref="https://www.hostinger.my/">Hostinger</a></li>
<li>New blog post: <ahref="/blog/posts/2024-07-27-hostinger-migration-leilukins-hub">Leilukin's Hub Has Migrated to Hostinger</a></li>
<li>Leilukin's Hub now has a tumbleblog at <ahref="https://tumbleblog.leilukin.com/">tumbleblog.leilukin.com</a>! Read the latest blog post to learn more: <ahref="/blog/posts/2024-06-21-leilukins-hub-tumbleblog-launched">Leilukin's Hub Tumbleblog Launched</a>.</li>
<li>Add new article: <ahref="/articles/palestine-masterlist">Palestine Masterlist</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">13 June 2024</h3>
<h3class="date-style">12 June 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add a Virtual Pets section to the home page.</li>
<li>The <ahref="https://status.cafe/">status.cafe</a> widget and the <ahref="https://www.websitecarbon.com/badge/">Website Carbon badge</a> on the home page will display a note about JavaScript being required for these widgets if the visitor has disabled JavaScript.</li>
<li>Remove JavaScript from the "Back to top" button.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">12 June 2024</h3>
<h3class="date-style">11 June 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>Remake the navigation hamburger menu for mobile, so JavaScript is no longer needed to open and close the navigation menu, although JavaScript is still used to enable closing the menu with the Escape key. (Special thanks to Kale for the <ahref="https://kalechips.net/projects/snippets/burger">accessible hamburger menu code snippet</a>).</li>
<li>New blog post: <ahref="/blog/posts/2024-06-12-performance-improvement-leilukins-hub/">Improving Site Performance of Leilukin's Hub</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">11 June 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>Improve "Back to top" button and footer link:
<ul>
<li>Replace arrow unicode with inline SVG for the button and border styling for the footer link</li>
<li>Display the footer link only if JavaScript is disabled</li>
<li>Use anchor HTML tag (<code><a></code>) instead of button tag (<code><button></code>) for the button</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>Disable smooth scrolling for users with reduced motion settings.</li>
<li>New blog post: <ahref="/blog/posts/2024-05-29-new-guestbook-leilukins-hub">The Search for a Guestbook Solution for Leilukin's Hub</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">26 May 2024</h3>
<h3class="date-style">27 May 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li><ahref="/shrines/asummersend"><cite>A Summer’s End — Hong Kong 1986</cite> shrine</a>: Add Passion Patch screenshots section to the <ahref="/shrines/asummersend/gallery">Gallery page</a> (<strong>Warning:</strong> The Passion Patch screenshots are not safe for work, though they are hidden by default when you visit the gallery page).</li>
<li>Add a "Skip to content" button for screen reader and keyboard users (thank you <ahref="https://kalechips.net/projects/snippets/skip">Kale</a> for the inspiration).</li>
<li>Add "Personal Sites I Love" section to the <ahref="/links">Links</a> page.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">25 May 2024</h3>
<h3class="date-style">24 May 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>Use <ahref="https://groundedwren.neocities.org/pages/demo_controls/guestbookDemo">Grounded Wren's guestbook code</a> for this site's <ahref="/guestbook">guestbook</a>.</li>
<li>Add "Link Exchanges" section to the <ahref="/links">Links</a> page.</li>
<li>Replace the <ahref="https://www.htmlcommentbox.com/">HTML Comment Box</a> widget on the <ahref="/guestbook">guestbook page</a> with a guestbook that is powered by <ahref="https://firebase.google.com/docs/database/">Firebase Realtime Database</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">18 May 2024</h3>
<h3class="date-style">17 May 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add footnotes section to <ahref="/shrines/asummersend/trivia/"><cite>A Summer’s End — Hong Kong 1986</cite> shrine Trivia page</a> and <ahref="/shrines/cassettebeasts/facts/"><cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> shrine Facts page</a>.</li>
<li>New blog post: <ahref="/blog/posts/2024-04-21-april-2024-leilukins-hub-overhaul-with-eleventy/">April 2024 Leilukin's Hub Overhaul with Eleventy</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">20 April 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>Finished overhauling this entire website with the static site generator <ahref="https://www.11ty.dev/">Eleventy</a>.</li>
<li>Finished overhauling this entire website with the static site generator <ahref="https://www.11ty.dev/">Eleventy</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">5 April 2024</h3>
<ul>
<li>Add table of contents to my <ahref="/projects/videogamemods/kotor1/">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic</a> and <ahref="/projects/videogamemods/kotor2/">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords mods</a>.</li>
<li><ahref="/shrines/cassettebeasts/">Cassette Beasts shrine</a>: The <ahref="/shrines/cassettebeasts/articles/">Articles</a> page now includes other people's Cassette Beasts articles that I recommend.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">6 September 2023</h3>
<ul>
<li>Moved pages of my video game mods and playlists to <ahref="/projects/">Projects</a> page.</li>
<li>Moved pages of my video game mods and playlists to <ahref="/projects/">Projects</a> page.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">4 September 2023</h3>
<ul>
<li><ahref="/shrines/cassettebeasts/">Cassette Beasts shrine</a>: Updated the Development History section of the <ahref="/shrines/cassettebeasts/trivia">Trivia</a> page.</li>
<li><ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic shrine</a>: Added new article: <ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/articles/keep-juhani-a-lesbian">Keep Juhani a Lesbian and Keep Juhani's Romance Exclusive to Female Characters</a>.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">27 June 2023</h3>
<ul>
<li><ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic shrine</a>:
<ul>
<li>Added new article: <ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/articles/faq-same-gender-romance-mods">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for My Same-Gender Romance Mods for Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic Series</a>.</li>
<li>Make the sidebar table of contents of <ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/guides/kotor-redeeming-bastila-guide">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Redeeming Bastila Guide</a> sticky.</li>
<li>Fixed broken links on the navigation bar.</li>
<li>Modified footer content.</li>
<li>Removed unnecessary code in CSS.</li>
<li>Removed the background image of the shrines that was accidentally done through importing the main CSS.</li>
<li><ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic shrine</a>:
<ul>
<li>Added new article: <ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/articles/faq-same-gender-romance-mods">Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ) for My Same-Gender Romance Mods for Star Wars: Knight of the Old Republic Series</a>.</li>
<li>Make the sidebar table of contents of <ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/guides/kotor-redeeming-bastila-guide">Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic: Redeeming Bastila Guide</a> sticky.</li>
<li>Fixed broken links on the navigation bar.</li>
<li>Modified footer content.</li>
<li>Removed unnecessary code in CSS.</li>
<li>Removed the background image of the shrines that was accidentally done through importing the main CSS.</li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">26 June 2023</h3>
<ul>
<li>Replaced incorrect uses of semantic HTML tags throughout the entire website, such as replacing <code><em></code> that were used for media titles with <code><cite></code>, <code><strong></code> that were used for styling with custom CSS class.</li>
<li>Added my latest mod, Juhani Item Pack for TSL, to <ahref="/projects/videogamemods/kotor2">my mods for Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords</a> page.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">28 January 2023</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added a <ahref="/links">Links</a> page.</li>
<li>Move the link to <ahref="/changelogs/">changelog</a> to the sidebar.</li>
<li>Due to these new changes to the navigation links on the sidebar, I wrote a JavaScript file to dynamically generate the contents on the right sidebar and the footer across multiple pages on this site.</li>
<li>Adjust the line spacing and the spacing between the listed items on the <ahref="/changelogs/">changelog</a> page.</li>
<li>Made adjustments to the relative paths in the HTML files, to ensure this site's favicons will show up on the title bar by default.</li>
<li>Fixed the issue of the page style not applied to the Not Found page.</li>
<li>Updated the <ahref="/about">About</a> page.</li>
<li>Update the <ahref="/not_found">Page Not Found</a> page.</li>
<li>Move the link to <ahref="/changelogs/">changelog</a> to the sidebar.</li>
<li>Due to these new changes to the navigation links on the sidebar, I wrote a JavaScript file to dynamically generate the contents on the right sidebar and the footer across multiple pages on this site.</li>
<li>Adjust the line spacing and the spacing between the listed items on the <ahref="/changelogs/">changelog</a> page.</li>
<li>Made adjustments to the relative paths in the HTML files, to ensure this site's favicons will show up on the title bar by default.</li>
<li>Fixed the issue of the page style not applied to the Not Found page.</li>
<li>Updated the <ahref="/about">About</a> page.</li>
<li>Update the <ahref="/not_found">Page Not Found</a> page.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">26 January 2023</h3>
<ul>
<li>The entire website has been redesigned! See the <ahref="/blog/posts/2023-01-26-new-year-leilukins-hub-redesign">2023 New Year Redesign of Leilukin's Hub</a> for more information!</li>
<li>Added the <ahref="https://ogp.me/">Open Graph protocol</a> on each page.</li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">5 October 2022</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added navigation links bar under the websit banner on each page.</li>
<li>Added new article about Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: <ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/articles/handmaiden-sisters-mother">Where is the Mother of the Handmaiden’s Sisters?</a>.</li>
<li>Added resource: <ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/resources/kotor2-female-exile-recruit-handmaiden-mods">List of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Mods that Allow Female Exiles to Recruit the Handmaiden as a Party Member</a></li>
<li>Added navigation links bar under the websit banner on each page.</li>
<li>Added new article about Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords: <ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/articles/handmaiden-sisters-mother">Where is the Mother of the Handmaiden’s Sisters?</a>.</li>
<li>Added resource: <ahref="/shrines/starwarskotor/resources/kotor2-female-exile-recruit-handmaiden-mods">List of Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords Mods that Allow Female Exiles to Recruit the Handmaiden as a Party Member</a></li>
</ul>
<h3class="date-style">4 October 2022</h3>
<ul>
<li>Added download links to <ahref="https://www.dropbox.com/s/ilntlihyaabthzg/Love%20Between%20Brianna%20And%20The%20Exile%20-%20TSLRCM%20version.zip?dl=0">Love Between Brianna and the Exile - The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod Version</a> and <ahref="https://www.dropbox.com/s/af3h6y793f3zjxq/Remote%20Tells%20Influence%20Patch%20for%20TSLRCM.zip?dl=0">Remote Tells Influence Patch for The Sith Lords Restored Content Mod</a> on my <ahref="/projects/videogamemods/kotor2">KotOR 2 mods</a> page.</li>
<li>New article: <a href="https://leilukin.com/articles/accessible-footnotes">&quot;How I (Tried to) Implement Accessible Footnotes&quot;</a>, which is also my entry for <a href="https://32bit.cafe/">32-Bit Cafe</a>'s <a href="https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/">Community Code Jam #5: Back to School</a>.</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>How I (Tried to) Implement Accessible Footnotes | Articles</title>
<contenttype="html"><p class="center-text"><a href="https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/" class="inline-img"><img src="https://leilukin.com/assets/images/articles/accessible-footnotes/32bitcafe-backtoschool.png" alt="32-Bit Cafe &quot;Back to School&quot; Code Jam button" /></a></p>
<p class="center-text">(32-Bit Cafe &quot;Back to School&quot; button made by <a href="https://ribo.zone/">Loren</a>)</p>
<p><a href="https://32bit.cafe/">32-Bit Cafe</a> is holding its fifth community code jam, titled <a href="https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/">&quot;Back to School&quot;</a>, from 4 to 17 August 2024. I have been looking forward to participating in 32-Bit Cafe's community code jam for the first time, so I am excited. This motivates me to finally write a how-to article I have been meaning to do for a while: how to implement accessible footnotes on Leilukin's Hub, or at least, I tried to do so to the best of my abilities.</p>
<p>On <a href="https://discourse.32bit.cafe/">32-Bit Cafe's Discourse forum</a>, I made a <a href="https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/handling-citations-and-or-footnotes/1061/2?u=leilukin">post on 28 June 2024</a> in response to <a href="https://solaria.neocities.org/">solaria</a>'s thread <a href="https://discourse.32bit.cafe/t/handling-citations-and-or-footnotes/1061">&quot;Handling Citations and/or Footnotes&quot;</a> to share my methods of adding footnotes on my website. Now, I am writing an extended version of that post of mine in the form of this article, so I could share what I learned about web page footnotes on my website as well.</p>
<p>(Note: This article assumes a foundational familiarity with HTML and CSS)</p>
<p>Plagiarism.org <a href="https://www.plagiarism.org/article/what-are-footnotes">defines footnotes</a> as notes placed at the bottom of a page, and what footnotes do is to cite references or comment on a designated part of the text above it.</p>
<p>My use case of footnotes is citing sources of information, particularly citing the same source multiple times on the same page when information from the same source is spread across my page. As of this writing, my website pages that use footnotes include the <a href="https://leilukin.com/shrines/asummersend/trivia/">trivia page of my <cite>A Summer’s End — Hong Kong 1986</cite> shrine 1</a> and the <a href="https://leilukin.com/shrines/cassettebeasts/facts/">facts page of my <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> shrine</a>. You are free to look at the HTML and CSS for reference, including when you are reading this article as I am explaining how I implement the footnotes.</p>
<p>Footnotes are used both on print and on the web. However, maintaining footnotes on the web can be tedious, especially if you want to update a web page to add or remove them, since you will need to change the number references of existing footnotes.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h2">
<h2 id="attempted-to-use-css-counters">Attempted to Use CSS Counters</h2>
<p>When I was searching for how to implement accessible footnotes, I discovered <a href="https://kittygiraudel.com/">Kitty Giraudel</a>'s article, <a href="https://www.sitepoint.com/accessible-footnotes-css/">&quot;Accessible Footnotes with CSS&quot;</a> which teaches the method of using the combination of HTML <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Accessibility/ARIA/Attributes/aria-describedby"><code>aria-describedby</code></a> attribute and <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/CSS_counter_styles/Using_CSS_counters">CSS counters</a> to add numbered references, to reduce the hassle of manually re-numbering all existing footnotes in case you want to update or reorder the references.</p>
<p>Her article also teaches adding a highlight background colour when heading to a footnote from a reference, as well as providing back links to head back to a reference from a footnote, by using the combination of the backlink Unicode icon (↩) and the HTML <code>aria-label</code> attribute with a value of “Back to content”. The uses of ARIA labels make footnotes more screen reader-friendly.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Kitty created the <a href="https://github.com/KittyGiraudel/eleventy-plugin-footnotes">eleventy-plugin-footnotes plugin</a> for the static site generator <a href="https://www.11ty.dev/">Eleventy</a>, and wrote a blog post about it, <a href="https://kittygiraudel.com/2020/12/02/footnotes-in-11ty/">&quot;Footnotes in 11ty&quot;</a>. Since I already had begun to <a href="https://leilukin.com/blog/posts/2024-04-21-april-2024-leilukins-hub-overhaul-with-eleventy">use Eleventy to build my website</a>, I tried Kitty's plugin.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, a known limitation of using CSS counter method to generate footnotes is <a href="https://github.com/KittyGiraudel/eleventy-plugin-footnotes/issues/83">not being able to reference the same footnote multiple times</a>. As I want to be able to reference the same footnote more than once when I am citing sources on my shrine pages, I had to give up the plugin and look for an alternative.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h2">
<h2 id="starting-with-markdown-it-footnote-plugins-default-footnote-markup">Starting with markdown-it-footnote Plugin's Default Footnote Markup</h2>
<p>Kitty Giraudel's blog post about creating footnotes in Eleventy mentioned <a href="https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it-footnote">markdown-it-footnote</a>, the footnotes plugin for <a href="https://github.com/markdown-it/markdown-it">markdown-it</a> Markdown parser, which is integrated in Eleventy by default to convert Markdown to HTML. Kitty commented on the accessibility shortcomings of markdown-it-footnote in the blog post:</p>
<blockquote>
<p>[...]it’s not super accessible (let alone by default), even considering all the customisation options. That’s because the footnote references end up being numbers (e.g. [1]) which are meaningless when listed or tabbed through because devoid of their surrounding context.</p>
</blockquote>
<p>That said, since the plugin is customisable, I still wanted to give it a shot to see if I could make configurations to improve its accessibility, so I installed markdown-it-footnote and looked into the plugin's default HTML markup output.</p>
<p>Here is a sample of what the HTML markup output of markdown-it-footnote looks like:</p>
<li>Adding a footnote reference as a superscript by using the <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/sup"><code>&lt;sup&gt;</code></a> tag with numbers as the content.</li>
<li>Using a <code>&lt;hr&gt;</code> horizontal line element to separate the main body of the page and the footnote section;</li>
<li>Using the <code>&lt;ol&gt;</code> tag to render the footnotes as a numbered list;</li>
<li>Each footnote list item has an <code>id</code> attribute</li>
<li>If a footnote is referenced more than once, the additional footnote references are labelled with colons.</li>
</ul>
<p>(Note: the class names were added by markdown-it-footnote, but if you do not use it, you can rename the class name to whatever you want, and even if you use markdown-it-footnote, you can still change the class names if you want to go deep into it)</p>
<p>Next step is trying to improve this HTML markup by making it accessible.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h2">
<h2 id="make-markdown-it-footnotes-markup-more-accessible">Make markdown-it-footnote's Markup More Accessible</h2>
<p>As pointed out by Kitty Giraudel, labelling the footnote reference as mere numbers like [1] is an accessibility shortcoming, because these reference links become meaningless when being focused on by tabbing through the links, as these reference links would be devoid of context.</p>
<p>What I did to tackle this was changing the reference labels by adding a word &quot;Footnote&quot; to clarify that these links are for footnotes. For example, [1] becomes [Footnote #1], so when screen readers focus on a footnote reference link, it will be read out as &quot;Footnote number one link&quot;.</p>
<p>Optionally, if you want your footnote labels to still display only numbers on screen, you can use a CSS class to <a href="https://www.a11yproject.com/posts/how-to-hide-content/">visually hide</a> the extra characters in the footnote label. This <code>.visually-hidden</code> utility class is a useful tool in your arsenal for accessible web design, as it is often used to hide a content that you do not mean to show on screen, but you still want it to be read by assistive technology.</p>
<p>To make my footnote reference labels display only a number on screen, I use a <code>span</code> tag with <code>visually-hidden</code> as the value of the <code>class</code> attribute to wrap around &quot;Footnote #&quot;, so on screen, [Footnote #1] is changed to [1].</p>
<p>Next step is adding an ARIA label to the footnote backlinks, by adding an <code>aria-label</code> attribute with &quot;Back to reference #[Insert reference number]&quot; as its value. For example:</p>
<p>When a footnote back link is focused on via tabbing, screen readers will read it out as &quot;Back to reference number one link&quot;.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h3">
<h3 id="add-heading-to-footnote-section">Add Heading to Footnote Section</h3>
<p>As for the CSS, in addition to using the <code>.visually-hidden</code> utility class, I refer to Kitty Giraudel's <a href="https://www.sitepoint.com/accessible-footnotes-css/">&quot;Accessible Footnotes with CSS&quot;</a> article to style the highlight background color when heading to a footnote from a reference.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h2">
<h2 id="configure-markdown-it-footnote-in-eleventys-configuration-file">Configure markdown-it-footnote in Eleventy's Configuration File</h2>
<p>(If you do not use Eleventy, you may skip this section)</p>
<p>My final step was to configure the markdown-it-footnote plugin, by editing Eleventy's configuration file (I named mine <code>eleventy.config.js</code>), so the plugin would render my accessible footnote HTML markup.</p>
<p>If you are a fellow Eleventy user, feel free to borrow my markdown-it-footnote configurations in your own. Make sure you install markdown-it-footnote first by keying in the installation command in the terminal:</p>
<p>As you likely have realised, footnotes are really tricky to implement on web pages, so you may be wondering: is there any alternative to footnotes?</p>
<p>For extra comments and tangents, by favourite approach is using HTML's details disclosure element with the <code>&lt;details&gt;</code> tag, with a <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/summary"><code>&lt;summary&gt;</code></a> element and a sibling element wrapping the content displayed when the disclosure is expanded.</p>
<p>I have been using the disclosure element for additional comments or information on this website, like in my blog post, <a href="https://leilukin.com/blog/posts/2024-06-24-cassette-beasts-fanlisting-approved/">&quot;My Cassette Beasts Fanlisting Application has been Approved&quot;</a>. As for the styling, initially I indented the content inside the disclosure to differentiate the disclosure content from the rest of the content of the page, but recently I switched to adding top and bottom borders after being inspired by <a href="https://starbreaker.org/">Starbreaker</a>'s website, who also has a post about footnotes, <a href="https://starbreaker.org/blog/tech/footnotes-no-fun-to-create-either/index.html">&quot;Footnotes: No Fun to Create, Either&quot;</a>.</p>
<summary class="content-disclosure__summary">More ways to use <code>&lt;details&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;summary&gt;</code> elements</summary>
<div class="content-disclosure__content"><p><code>&lt;details&gt;</code> and <code>&lt;summary&gt;</code> have become among my favourite HTML elements due to how useful they are. In addition to extra comments and info, Leilukin's Hub has also used the elements for the following purposes:</p>
<ul>
<li>Table of contents, like the one this very article has</li>
<li>Hiding spoilers, like in my <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> shrine article, <a href="https://leilukin.com/shrines/cassettebeasts/articles/cassette-beasts-more-than-a-pokemon-clone/">&quot;How Cassette Beasts is Much More than a Pokémon Clone&quot;</a></li>
<li>Content warnings, like in my <a href="https://leilukin.com/shrines/asummersend/gallery/"><cite>A Summer’s End — Hong Kong 1986</cite> shrine's gallery page</a>, with its styling being inspired by another Kitty Giraudel's blog post, <a href="https://kittygiraudel.com/2022/09/04/a-content-warning-component/">&quot;A content warning component&quot;</a></li>
</ul>
</div>
</details>
<p>As for citing sources, the simplest way would be naming and linking to the source in the main text of your page, though it does mean you may end up repeating the title of the source if you want to attribute to it more than once on your page. This was once the approach of my shrine pages, though I found the pages looked rather cluttered, so I eventually chose to use markdown-it-footnote alongside Eleventy.</p>
<p>Creating and maintaining footnotes on web pages is tricky, so I hope my article about accessible footnotes is helpful if you want to create them.</p>
<p>I am still not completely certain if my method is the best, although I tried to the best of my abilities, so I am interested in hearing feedback for my way of implementing accessible footnotes.</p>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 2 August 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-08-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Added my first publicly released code snippet on this website: <a href="https://leilukin.com/projects/snippets/disability-pride-flag-background">Responsive Disability Pride Flag CSS Background</a>.</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 27 July 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-07-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Leilukin's Hub and all its subsites have been migrated to <a href="https://www.hostinger.my/">Hostinger</a></li>
<li>New blog post: <a href="https://leilukin.com/blog/posts/2024-07-27-hostinger-migration-leilukins-hub">Leilukin's Hub Has Migrated to Hostinger</a></li>
<li>Change the theme of <a href="https://tumbleblog.leilukin.com/">Leilukin's Hub Tumbleblog</a> to a custom theme based on the Umbra theme from Chyrp Lite</li>
<li>Add a link to contact me via email to the website's footer</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Leilukin's Hub Has Migrated to Hostinger | Blog</title>
<contenttype="html"><p>Starting with 25 July 2024, Leilukin's Hub and all its subsites, including its <a href="https://tumbleblog.leilukin.com/">tumbleblog</a> and <a href="https://fan.leilukin.com/">fanlisting collective</a>, have been migrated to <a href="https://www.hostinger.my/">Hostinger</a>. In other words, I have moved hosts again almost two months after <a href="https://leilukin.com/blog/posts/2024-05-31-domain-name-hosting-change-leilukins-hub">moving Leilukin's Hub to Netlify</a>.</p>
<p>Before talking about why I chose Hostinger as my new website host, I want to talk about why I was considering to move hosts again.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h2">
<h2 id="why-decided-to-move-hosts-again">Why Decided to Move Hosts Again</h2>
<p>The first major reason is that leilukin.com has evolved into more than a static site; since I have also begun to dip my toe into PHP to build dynamic sites, including a tumbleblog, fanlistings and a fanlisting.</p>
<p><a href="https://www.netlify.com/">Netlify</a>, which previously hosted the main site of Leilukin's Hub, does not support PHP hosting, so I hosted my tumbleblog and fanlisting collective on <a href="https://www.infinityfree.com/">InfinityFree</a>, one of the very few platforms to provide PHP and MySQL website hosting for free. InfinityFree has been a decent platform for PHP and MySQL beginners to experiment with the languages, however as you might have expected, its free hosting plan comes with limitations.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h3">
<h3 id="limitations-of-infinityfrees-free-hosting">Limitations of InfinityFree's Free Hosting</h3>
<p>InfinityFree places <a href="https://forum.infinityfree.com/docs?topic=49356">their own security measures</a> on websites on their free hosting plan to ensure <a href="https://forum.infinityfree.com/docs?topic=49353">only regular browsers can access these websites</a>. While it is understandable to apply these security measures on free websites to prevent abuse, it can be a dealbreaker depending on your needs.</p>
<p>In my case, tht thing that frustrated me the most about InfinityFree's security system on their free websites is the fact that my tumbleblog was unable to provide RSS feed in usual way. <a href="https://chyrplite.net/">Chyrp Lite</a>, which powers my tumbleblog, includes the feature of providing blog RSS feeds, but InfinityFree's security system blocks feed readers from reading feeds from websites on their free hosting, so I had to use Feedburner to proxy my tumbleblog's feeds to get around it.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h3">
<h3 id="invested-in-webmastery-enough-to-spend-money">Invested in Webmastery Enough to Spend Money</h3>
<p>Lastly, I am invested in building my own websites enough to spend money on them, as already evident in my purchase and registration of a custom domain name leilukin.com for this website.</p>
<p>That said, I do need to consider carefully about how much money I am going to spend on my hobbies, which factors in why I eventually chose Hostinger to host my websites.</p>
<p>The biggest draw about Hostinger is its pricing — it is not only cheap, but also offering regional pricing. This is a huge deal for people who live in countries with weaker currencies than US Dollars and Euro, as the pricing scales to the level we are more comfortable spending, without worrying about currency conversion rates.</p>
<p>For reference, as of this writing, 1 USD equals approximately 4.6 Malaysian Ringgit (MYR), while the minimum wage in Malaysia is 1,500 MYR, which approximately equals to 321.03 USD, per month. Therefore, if a Malaysian like me is going to spend money, every USD counts.</p>
<p>Compare the pricing of the 48-month Premium Shared Hosting plan, which was what I ended up spending to host my websites, of <a href="https://www.hostinger.my/">Hostinger.my</a> to <a href="https://www.hostinger.com/">Hostinger.com</a>: The plan costs 7.99 per month in MYR (approximately 1.71 USD), while 2.99 per month in USD (approximately 13.97 MYR). This means I ended up saving almost 6 MYR per month by purchasing the plan on the Malaysian branch of Hostinger. This is just comparing Hostinger's own hosting plan with different currencies, let alone comparing Hostinger's hosting plan to its competitors.</p>
<p>As a bonus, being able to purchase Hostinger's hosting plans in Malaysian Ringgit means I can pay by directly transferring money from a Malaysian bank account.</p>
<p>Being cheap is not even the only reason I chose Hostinger; what is better than being cheap is to provide many, many features at the same time.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h3">
<h3 id="many-many-features-at-a-cheap-price">Many, Many Features at a Cheap Price</h3>
<p>The cheap price of the Premium Shared Hosting Plan of Hostinger is jam-packed with many features, including but not limited to:</p>
<ul>
<li>Ability to create up to 100 websites (Netlify allows you to deploy 500 sites, but 100 sites are still significantly more than enough for average users)</li>
<li>100 GB SSD storage</li>
<li>Unlimited bandwidth (InfinityFree's free hosting also allows unlimited bandwidth, but Netlify has a limit of 100GB per month)</li>
<li>Unlimited MySQL databases (while Infinity has a limit of 400 databases)</li>
<li>Email accounts included for free</li>
<li>Built-in Git support, which allows me to continue deploying my main site from its Git repository</li>
<li>And more!</li>
</ul>
<p>On the subject of email accounts, it is worth pointing out that Hostinger's Premium Shared Hosting plan allows you to create an email account for each website you made, and you can have up to 100 addresses and forwarders for each email account.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h2">
<h2 id="a-birthday-present-for-myself">A Birthday Present for Myself</h2>
<p>Last but not least, another motivator for me to purchase a premium website hosting plan for my websites now is the fact that my birthday is coming soon on July 28, so I spent money on premium hosting for my websites as a birthday present for myself this year.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h2">
<h2 id="domain-names-remaining-at-porkbun">Domain Names Remaining at Porkbun</h2>
<p>While Hostinger provides domain registration and transfer service, I chose to have the leilukin.com domain name stay with <a href="https://porkbun.com/">Porkbun</a>, because I already spent money on the domain name, so Hostinger's hosting plan providing domain name registration for free for the first year does not benefit me.</p>
<p>In addition, Porkbun's renewal rate for domain names is cheaper than Hostinger. For example, Porkbun renews the <code>.com</code> domain extension at 10.37 USD per year, while Hostinger renews at 15.99 USD per year. Even the Malaysian Ringgit pricing of Hostinger's domain renewal rate for <code>.com</code>, 55.99 MYR per year, is still more expansive than Porkbun's approximately 48.3 MYR per year rate.</p>
<p>Leilukin's Hub's migration to Hostinger has been smooth. There was no significant change on the front end of my websites after the switch, aside from changing the theme of my tumbleblog, so my websites will continue to operate as usual, as well as improved site performance for my tumbleblog and fanlisting collective by loading custom web fonts faster to the extent I intended by <a href="https://web.dev/articles/codelab-preload-web-fonts">preloading the fonts</a>.</p>
<p>Moving hosts for my website again reminds me of one of the benefits of owning a custom domain name of making the host migration more seamless, since it saves the trouble of having to change and update my website's address every time I move hosts.</p>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 22 July 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-07-22T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Add a <a href="https://zine.kalechips.net/index">Salad Magazine</a> section to my <a href="https://leilukin.com/adoptables">Adoptables pages</a>.</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 21 July 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-07-21T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Add a section for the <a href="https://divergentrays.com/kitty">Kitty Friends Pixel Club</a> to my <a href="https://leilukin.com/adoptables">Adoptables page</a>, including my kitty friends!</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 20 July 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-07-20T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Remake the mobile version of navigation menu by using the HTML <a href="https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Global_attributes/popover"><code>popover</code></a> attirbutes, allowing the navigation menu to be dismissed without JavaScript</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 18 July 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-07-18T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Add list of web cliques I joined to the home page</li>
<li>Add pixel cliques I joined to the <a href="https://leilukin.com/adoptables">Adoptables page</a></li>
<li>Add a <a href="https://leilukin.com/links/#joined">Joined</a> tab to the <a href="https://leilukin.com/links">Links page</a> to list the web cliques and widgets of web rings I joined, as well as linking to my fanlisting collective.</li>
<li>Upgrade Eleventy to version 3.0</li>
<li>Bundle page-specific CSS and JavaScript in the <code>&lt;head&gt;</code> element with Eleventy 3.0's <a href="https://github.com/11ty/eleventy-plugin-bundle">built-in bundle plugin</a></li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 13 July 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-07-13T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Add an inline SVG icon to external links</li>
<li>Use inline SVG for Font Awesome icons to remove the need of hosting Font Awesome assets</li>
<li>Add dark mode support for <a href="https://leilukin.com/shrines/cassettebeasts"><cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> shrine</a> based on user preference in system setting</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 6 July 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-07-06T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Implement accessible tooltips that meet Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 success criterion for <a href="https://www.w3.org/WAI/WCAG22/Understanding/content-on-hover-or-focus.html">1.4.13: Content on Hover or Focus (Level AA)</a>, by utilising <a href="https://github.com/scottaohara/a11y_tooltips">Scott O'Hara's ARIA Tooltips</a> script. (Thank you <a href="https://www.groundedwren.com/">Vera</a> for your feedback on my previous implementation of the tooltips)</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 3 July 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-07-03T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Add <a href="https://leilukin.com/links/#articles">Articles</a> and <a href="https://leilukin.com/links/#resources">Resources</a> tabs to the <a href="https://leilukin.com/links">links page</a>.</li>
<li>Show visible stylised tooltips for some website buttons on mouse hover or keyboard focus (thanks to <a href="https://solaria.neocities.org/accessibility">Solaria's web accessibility guide</a> for the inspiration).</li>
<li>Add a list of webrings my website is part of to the home page.</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 2 July 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-07-02T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>The main site header now would display a Disability Pride Month blurb and the disability pride flag during July</li>
<li><a href="https://fan.leilukin.com/">My fanlisting collective</a> and <a href="https://fan.leilukin.com/cassettebeasts"><cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting</a> launched!</li>
<li>Reorganised pages for my video game mods into their own directory</li>
<li>Add code projects, started with <a href="https://leilukin.com/projects/code/bellabuffs-phpmailer">BellaBuffs with PHPMailer Integration</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li>New blog post: <a href="https://leilukin.com/blog/posts/2024-07-02-fanlisting-collective-launch">Cassette Beasts Fanlisting and My Fanlisting Collective Launched</a></li>
<li>Add tabs to sort my link collection by category (thanks to <a href="https://kalechips.net/projects/snippets/tabs">Kalechips' JavaScript-free tabs code scnippet</a> for the inspiration)</li>
<contenttype="html"><p>I am incredibly excited to announce the official launch of <a href="https://fan.leilukin.com/cassettebeasts">Land of Confusion</a>, <a href="https://thefanlistings.org/">The Fanlistings Network</a>-approved fanlisting for <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite>, and <a href="https://fan.leilukin.com/">Beehive</a>, my fanlisting collective! 🥳</p>
<p>If you are a fan of <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite>, feel free to join my fanlisting! If you like fanlistings as well, feel free to check out my fanlisting collective!</p>
<p>In addition, in light of the launch of my first fanlisting, I am also releasing <a href="https://leilukin.com/projects/code/bellabuffs-phpmailer">my fork of BellaBuffs</a>, the fanlisting script written in PHP, with integration of <a href="https://github.com/PHPMailer/PHPMailer">PHPMailer</a>, the email sending library!</p>
<p>My fanlisting collective and <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting are hosted on <a href="https://www.infinityfree.com/">InfinityFree</a>, since <a href="https://www.netlify.com/">Netlify</a>, which currently hosts the main site of Leilukin's Hub, does not support PHP.</p>
<p>In <a href="https://leilukin.com/blog/posts/2024-06-24-cassette-beasts-fanlisting-approved">my previous post</a>, I announced that The Fanlistings Network (also known as TFL.org) had approved my application for building and running a fanlisting for <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite>.</p>
<p>After completing the <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting on 30 June 2024, I submitted a <a href="https://thefanlistings.org/finished.php">finished form</a> to TFL.org to let them know that I have finished my fanlisting. The Fanlistings Network responded by emailing me and informing me thatthey have added the URL of my <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting to the list of approved fanlistings under the Games category and the <a href="https://www.thefanlistings.org/browse.php?show=games&amp;start=8">Computer, Console, &amp; Video Games subcategory</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240702062715/https://www.thefanlistings.org/browse.php?show=games&amp;start=8">view the web archive version</a>).</p>
<p>The launch of my <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting is a major moment for me as both a webmaster and a <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fan, as I am enthusiastic about the fact that the very first fanlisting I create would be for my absolute favourite video game.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h2">
<h2 id="first-foray-in-php">First Foray in PHP</h2>
<p>My <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting is powered by <a href="https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/scripts/bellabuffs/">BellaBuffs</a>. I was new to PHP when I started considering building fanlistings myself, as my main site Leilukin's Hub is a static site, so building the <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting was my first foray in learning to code in PHP.</p>
<p>Before starting to actually work on building the <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting, I tried out <a href="https://scripts.indisguise.org/enthusiast/">Enthusiast</a>, the other commonly used fanlisting script also written in PHP. I tried <a href="https://github.com/DudeThatsErin/enth">Erin's fork of Enthusiast</a> specifically, since InfinityFree uses version 8.2 of PHP Enthusiast also has extra features that BellaBuffs does not have, including allowing fanlisting members to set passwords and even managing the entire fanlisting collective.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, I encountered a critical issue with Enthusiast when I tried it: whenever I added a fanlisting to my joined fanlisting list in the admin panel, the home page of the fanlisting collective would go completely blank. I do not know the cause of the issue, and I was not familiar enough with PHP to be confident in attempting to investigate the entire fanlisting collective code just to find the culprit, especially when it uses MySQL database to store data, adding another complexity in troubleshooting it.</p>
<p>Therefore, I later tried BellaBuffs, and chose BellaBuffs as the script to power my fanlistings, then code my own fanlisting collective myself.</p>
<p>There were a few setbacks I encountered when I was building the <a href="https://fan.leilukin.com/cassettebeasts"><cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting</a> with BellaBuffs and hosting the fanlisting on InfinityFree — I learned that InfinityFree's free hosting plan <a href="https://forum.infinityfree.com/t/sending-email-from-your-website-php-mail/49242">does not support PHP <code>mail()</code> function</a>, which is used by BellaBuffs.</p>
<div class="heading-wrapper h2">
<h2 id="integrating-phpmailer-into-bellabuffs">Integrating PHPMailer into BellaBuffs</h2>
<p>BellaBuffs includes the optional features to email new members after submitting the join form, email the fanlisting admin when a new member joins or email new members when their applications were approved. The original BellaBuffs script achieved this by using PHP's built-in <code>mail()</code> feature, which unfortunately the free hosting of InfinityFree does not support, so I had to figure out an alternative way for my fanlisting on InfinityFree to send emails.</p>
<p>Thankfully, InfinityFree suggested using PHPMailer, and even providing a <a href="https://github.com/InfinityFreeHosting/contactform">contact form powered by PHPMailer</a> as a sample. As a result, I spent time in trying to incorporate PHPMailer into BellaBuffs based on the InfinityFree's PHPMailer contact form code, and voilà, I did it!</p>
<p>I am glad that despite my inexperience in PHP, I was able to apply the programming knowledge I learned from building my main site and taking online coding courses to build my fanlisting.</p>
<p>After successfully setting up the <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting, I decided to fork BellaBuffs and release my version of the fanlisting script with PHPMailer integration, in case there are others who want to use BellaBuffs to build fanlistings, but cannot or do not want to use the PHP <code>mail()</code> function.</p>
<p>You can download my BellaBuffs fork and learn about how to use it from <a href="https://github.com/helenclx/BellaBuffs-PHPMailer">its GitHub repository</a>.</p>
<p>To give myself more practice in PHP as I built my first fanlisting, I decided to code my fanlisting collective in PHP as well.</p>
<p>I decided to name my fanlisting collective Beehive, since I have been using my drawing of a bee with a pair of glasses as my main avatar on the Internet, I figured it would be a good idea to name a subsite of mine something related to bees.</p>
<p>Furthermore, Beehive is a fitting name for a fanlisting collective, as beehives house honey bees, while this website houses all the fanlistings I created, maintain, joined and have applied to join.</p>
<p>Welcome to Beehive! 🐝</p>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 27 June 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-06-27T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Added a <a href="https://leilukin.com/articles/palestine-masterlist/#spotlight-crowdfunding-campaigns">Spotlight Crowdfunding Campaigns</a> section to my <a href="https://leilukin.com/articles/palestine-masterlist">Palestine masterlist</a> to highlight fundraising campaigns that I have been asked to help and share by Palestinians on Tumblr, and that have been vetted by other Palestinians on Tumblr.</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 26 June 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-06-26T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>Added my other websites to my <a href="https://leilukin.com/projects">Projects page</a>.</li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Changelog: 24 June 2024</title>
<linkhref="https://leilukin.com/"/>
<updated>2024-06-24T00:00:00Z</updated>
<id>https://leilukin.com/</id>
<contenttype="html"><ul>
<li>New blog post: <a href="https://leilukin.com/blog/posts/2024-06-24-cassette-beasts-fanlisting-approved">My Cassette Beasts Fanlisting Application has been Approved</a></li>
</ul>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>My Cassette Beasts Fanlisting Application has been Approved | Blog</title>
<contenttype="html"><p>On 22 June 2024, I submitted an <a href="https://thefanlistings.org/start/apply.php">application form</a> to <a href="https://thefanlistings.org/">The Fanlistings Network</a>, also known as TFL.org, to build and run a <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting, and now TFL.org has approved my application! <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> is now on TFL.org's approved list under the Games category and the <a href="https://www.thefanlistings.org/browse.php?show=games&amp;start=8">Computer, Console, &amp; Video Games subcategory</a> (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20240624045621/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.thefanlistings.org%2Fbrowse.php%3Fshow%3Dgames%26start%3D8">view the web archive version</a>).</p>
<summary class="content-disclosure__summary">What is a fanlisting?</summary>
<div class="content-disclosure__content"><p>For those who do not know what a fanlisting is, TFL.org has defined fanslitings as below:</p>
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<p>A fanlisting is simply an online listing of fans of a subject, such as a TV show, actor, or musician, that is created by an individual and open for fans from around the world to join. There are no costs, and the only requirements to join a fanlisting are your name and country. Fanlistings do not have to be large sites (although some are) - they are just a place where you can have your name listed along with other fans of the same subject. TheFanlistings.org is the original (but not only) web directory for fanlistings, dedicated to uniting fans across the globe.</p>
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<p>This is a major moment for me as both a webmaster and a <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fan. As a webmaster, I have been applying and joining fanlistings since I built my own website, as I have always found fanlistings a neat idea to gather and discover other people who share your interests across the world, as listing your country is a requirement when you apply to join a fanlisting. Recently, I have been considering building and running a fanlisting myself, with <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> being my first choice since there is no fanlisting for <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> yet. I began to dabble in PHP, so I can use a script like <a href="https://www.jemjabella.co.uk/scripts/bellabuffs/">BellaBuffs</a> to build a fanlisting. With my application approved by The Fanlistings Network, the <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting will be the first fanlisting I build and run.</p>
<p><cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> has become my favourite video game ever since I started playing it in July 2023, to the extent that not only I have a <a href="https://leilukin.com/shrines/cassettebeasts"><cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> shrine</a> on my website, I had already begun to consider creating the shrine even before beating the main campaign. I have also been tirelessly recommending the game throughout various online spaces. Therefore, I am honoured to be given this opportunity to build and run a fanlisting for <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> that is approved by The Fanlistings Network, to add to my ongoing effort to boost the game's visibility.</p>
<p>The <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting is not ready yet at this moment, especially since I was not certain if The Fanlistings Network would approve my application, but now with their approval, I am going to work on building the <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting. TFL.org has a <a href="https://thefanlistings.org/start/rules.php">rule</a> that fanlisting owners need to complete their fanlisting within four weeks, so stay tuned for upcoming updates for my <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting!</p>
<p>Now that I will be running my own fanlisting, I will be also creating a fanlisting collective to gather all fanlistings I own, join and have applied to in one place. Since <a href="https://www.netlify.com/">Netlify</a>, which currently hosts the main site of Leilukin's Hub, does not support PHP, I will be hosting my fanlisting collective, including my <cite>Cassette Beasts</cite> fanlisting, on <a href="https://www.infinityfree.com/">InfinityFree</a>.</p>
<li>Leilukin's Hub now has a tumbleblog at <a href="https://tumbleblog.leilukin.com/">tumbleblog.leilukin.com</a>! Read the latest blog post to learn more: <a href="https://leilukin.com/blog/posts/2024-06-21-leilukins-hub-tumbleblog-launched">Leilukin's Hub Tumbleblog Launched</a>.</li>
<li>New article: <ahref="/articles/accessible-footnotes">"How I (Tried to) Implement Accessible Footnotes"</a>, which is also my entry for <ahref="https://32bit.cafe/">32-Bit Cafe</a>'s <ahref="https://32bit.cafe/~xandra/events/codejam5/">Community Code Jam #5: Back to School</a>.</li>
<li>Improve the site's <ahref="/feed.xml">RSS feed</a>:
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<li>Make RSS feeds <ahref="https://blog.jim-nielsen.com/2021/automatically-discoverable-rss-feeds/">automatically discoverable</a> by feed readers</li>
<li>Use time and time zone to make feed items' timestamps accurate</li>
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