ok finally found the answers for One thing i want to fix and, yeah, i am absoLUTELY gonna need to rebuild everything for the site to function the way i want it to. but thats ok! i knew i was gonna have to do that /anyway/, just means i actually have a Direction for how to get that basic framework Down now. so yeah, lets fuckin goooooo
it appears that ACTUALLY the type of coding required to do it the way i want to is NOT hosted by neocities. cest la vie, live and learn. frustrating as fuck though. so i guess neocities is purely gonna be a learning ground for me to figure things out on, and ill figure out something else in the future