What do you need to start archiving yours (or other's) works?
Hell if I know lol
(jk this is actually pretty important)
(I am by no means a professional so take everything with a grain of salt please and thank yew)
Archiving - never an easy work when you have a ginormous amount of data to tackle. But if there's a will, there's definitely a way.
(Yes I have a will and ten thousands project on my back please don't attempt the same thing-)
So if you want to start documenting for the sake of your personal enjoyment or for the sake of a whole community, take notes :3
Your contents
This obviously goes without saying: in order to archive something you need to have that "thing" first. In this case, the contents we archive are "rewrites" and "redesigns", so we have to prepare that.
I'll start by saving everything to a folder and organized the contents base on whatever criteria I need to focus on. For written contents, I copy everything to a text editor that can save a file - which can range from default options like Sticky Notes and Notepad to robust and over-the-top choices like Notion or Obsidian. Or, you know, the classic MS Word and Google Docs work just fine.
Your archive space
Now that you have your contents, time to put them somewhere! You wouldn't want to open 7749 files just to reference one work, don't you?
If you're basic and don't need a lot of customization, just put everything into a Google Docs and share it publicly. That's what I did initially, but the files are getting BIGGER so that's no longer an option.
Or if you don't want to spend to much time making the framework, Fandom got you covered! But don't ever talk to me about Fandom... oh I hate it, I hate its CSS with a fucking passion... Other wiki sites like wiki.gg or Miraheze required a lot more knowledge to customize and not very beginner friendly so I wouldn't recommend it either.
As for my case, I want full reign over how my archive look, feel and interact, thus led me down the web design rabbit hole (not complaining though, I love doing this) and birthed this site. Isn't it so beautiful?
Designs and how to customize your entries on the archive
Okay, so if you got to this part, I'm automatically assuming you want to put your work up here. Well congratulations, the exit is over there /j
As you can tell, this site is 100% hand-coded by me. That's right, I spent a huge chunk of my time typing out every single letter, styling every elements. Would be sad if someone just come and wreck it all down =( That's why I only give access to trusted individuals that can handle both the archive work AND dealing with the technicalities of web coding.
Though if you are eager to learn, that's great! HTML and CSS are relatively simple and has a low learning curve - would be fun to pick it up and study it over the weekends. My only tip? Everything are boxes. Boxes in boxes in boxes in boxes... THEY'RE ALL BOXES!!! It's simpler to think of it that way.
This is also one of the main reasons I don't use JavaScript - in favor of keeping things simple so I don't have to learn it. I was given HTML and CSS, might as well use 100% of it lol
Customizing the template
I figured you must be here for the template given to you, so here's a detail guide on how to customize each of them:
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