Neocities.org

This is exactly how I update my site! Local copy gang rise up. I try to use the 'last page big thumbnail' trick whenever I update my darker pages so that isn't the first thing people see. I've also been trying to to keep my images optimized, but I didn't start doing that until recently, so my site is still huge lol ...

Also, 'secret' tip (?): I always upload my images before I upload the HTML files. Images upload to Neocities just fine the first time, but if you replace the same filename with a different image, it can take quite a while to update. HTML changes are almost instant but images take a lot longer.

Oh yeah I upload images first basically always. I've never had issues with images with the same filename getting updated yet? If you want the thumbnail to update, just add a random space in the HTML and it'll change quickly.

I have a local copy running on localhost, so I can easily preview all the changes and accumulate them to push them all at once later. For editing, I use VSCode, and my uploading option is the CLI. I upload the entire website by running "neocitiess push .", which takes a bit of time for my website (but only the files that have some changes are uploaded), but it's completely hassle-free.

As for the thumbnails, I resize them manually for single images (e.g. blog posts), but for my photo galleries I have made a simple python script that grabs all the images in the temporary folder, makes thumbnails, uploads everyting to catbox.moe and generates the HTML. All I have to do is drop the photos and wait for my code to be ready, then just paste it into the base page template.

https://shadowm00n.neocities.org/tech/neocities_management_script.html <-- i use this script makes it nice n ez lol

https://thricegreat.neocities.org/neocities_in_rc_shell.txt I use this script which I made.