History

I started coding because I signed up for a class in python during the summer of 2025. While I didn't enjoy the class, it led me to discover neocities and thus, HTML, CSS, JavaScript, and the IndieWeb. I fell in love. My original idea for a website was a Hogwarts Student Portal:

I wanted a site where I could pretend that I was a student in Hogwarts (from Harry Potter) without the name HARRY POTTER in my face all the time. I wanted to pretend that Harry Potter was a celebrity of the past and I was a current student of Hogwarts. As you can see in the image above, I didnt get very far into this idea, student portals are very boring to code. But I want to take you through what I DID code before I stopped.

Student Portal

When you clicked on any of the words in the Nav Bar at the top (Schedule, Class Converter, Teacher Converter, House) it would bring you to a new page of the portal. In any of those windows, if you clicked on the title at the top of the page (HOGWARTS STUDENT PORTAL), It would bring you back to the main page that you see above. Lets explore Class Converter and Teacher Converter next:

The Teacher and Class converters were small chatbots that were made to convert your "muggle" classes and teachers into their Hogwarts equivalent. The two converters looked very similar except for some small details. The class converter, pictured above, was slightly more accurate when it came to conversions:

The Teacher converter, on the other hand, needed lots of work:

This is because the responses were manually put in by me, it was not AI that could learn responses on its own, it wasn't "smart". The code looked something like this for both:

Besides their accuracy, the teacher and class converters were really only told apart by their slight differnece in instructions:

After I got bored of adding in countless if - thens, I moved on to the schedule maker. The idea of this was that you would use the teacher and class converters to get your Hogwarts Schedule, and then solidify your schedule in this page:

When you clicked on "Settings", it would open buttons that you could add to the slots on the schedule:

Once you were happy with your selected schedule, you could click "Finalize Schedule" and you would not be able to move the classes or teachers around anymore:

The whole thing is quite comical because of course Professor Mcgonogall doesn't teach Herbology! In fact she is the Headmistress of Hogwarts after Dumbledore! But I was just working with a small amount of research on this topic and waning inspiration for this project. Finally, we will go through the "Houses" page. This was the first Page I ever coded but I wanted to save it for last:

And under that:

When you clicked on any of the images of the "heads of houses" it would bring you to an incredibly laggy and frustrating wikifandom page about that character. These heads of houses were not even accurate to the time that I was going to pretend in but once again, I put little effort into the specifics of this project because I was just learning how webdev worked.

When you clicked on the "Which House are You?" image it would bring you to my favorite Sorting Hat Quiz

This quiz is very good at digging deeper than the surface level house. I always thought I was a Ravenclaw because im "smart" and I "Like to Read", but this told me I was a Gryffindor for very logical and relatable reasons. I personally think that this is what would've been what the actual sorting hat would be looking at... not if you're just "smart" or "brave" or "shy" or "cunning".

Hint: That answer up there made me cry, I have never felt so heard about my inner turmoils in any other personality, enneagram, or even autism test. If you want to know how I feel about some things inside, read that ^.

What Happened Next?

After I got bored with the Hogwarts Student Portal, I decided to change my web name from "HogwartsPortal" to "Luneth-Landing" because I wanted a wider creative range. Then I started working on an OS design. At first, the background was of a dusky library. My idea at the time was that it was a school computer OS theme and there would be the portal among other hogwarts extentions. All that was there was the library background and the portal with an image of green books. I was very proud of how I made it so that when you clicked on the icon it would highlight green, and when you double clicked it would open a window. Later, I decided I wanted even more freedom and I changed the entire theme for my OS, Blue.

After I finished this update, I added an About Me page. I loved the computer image so much. I made it into a binder tab style so that you could click through the "About Me", "Goals", Friends", and "Guestbook"

After that, I was gone for a week for a camp and I thought about my page. I was running into some type of coders - block. I couldnt figure out what to make next. I started trying to google and pinterest ideas but there was nothing there. Finally I settled on a fandoms page. This did not go very far...

I got very bored with this after one day of choosing colors and formatting and so that evening I moved on to a music player:

This took FOREVER to figure out how to make and it had so many issues, I dropped it. I stopped coding my website for a few days, mostly out of frustration, nothing was working, I was uninspired and bored. Then, one sunday afternoon, my family and I decide to watch a Wes Anderson Film: "Moonrise Kingdom". My life was changed. That night, I tried to sleep but the ideas and inspiration were filling my head to the point of bursting! So I got up and began to code this new web update you see now. I am super happy with it and proud of it and I can't wait to see all the things I add to it. Thanks for reading!