love this!!! i wanna do weird web october too and this is such a lovely first entry <3
thanks! the effect is from a process called dithering, which reduces the number of colors in an image (and the file size). there are a bunch of online dithering tools, but my go-to is https://app.dithermark.com/
also i just noticed my guestbook was broken for TWO MONTHS! fixed now, but i'm sorry to anyone who sent a message that got stuck in the digital abyss.
oh hell yeah. get boxed 😎👊
REALLY like the CSS box page