Rather than showing a finished product, I show the process of building it.
What was made and fixed, grouped by period.
Ready for posts to pile up
Every post now has its own address. Before, all post bodies were stacked onto a single category page, so the page grew endlessly and there was no way to share just one post. The list now shows only the title and an excerpt, and clicking opens a page for that post alone — with its own share preview.
The site also got a contact address, reachable from the bottom of any page and from the About page. While at it, the privacy policy was corrected: it still claimed the site had no login, comments or inquiry form.
Fixing what the refactor broke
The day after the refactor, the comment box had vanished from every page. It attaches itself just above the footer, and the footer now renders slightly later, so it silently found no place to attach — with no error at all.
It now works regardless of load order. This Journey page also got a comment box; it was created after the comment feature existed, so it was the only page without one.
Registered with Google
The site is now registered in Google Search Console, with its 25-page sitemap submitted, so I can see which search terms show it. Analytics (GA4) went in too — thanks to the previous day's refactor, adding it to one shared file applied it to all 25 pages at once.
The admin screen was fixed as well: the post category list was missing Hobbies and Journey, so there had been no way to publish to those two pages.
Everything scattered, gathered into one place
The top menu, mobile toolbar and footer that were copied into all 25 pages now live in one file, and the database connection settings that sat in five places were merged into one. Nothing changed on screen, but a menu edit now updates all 25 pages at once.
Deploys changed the same day — from dragging a folder in a browser to a single terminal command. A log-out link, the English version of this Journey page, and the four programs missing from the English Apps page were added too.
Letting visitors speak
Comments and likes were added to the bottom of every public page. The Social work and Beauty art pages also got an inquiry form, with an admin-only screen for reading what comes in.
At first nothing was actually being saved, which was fixed right away. Likes used to be one button for the whole page; now, like YouTube, each comment has its own. On pages that bundle several menus, comments are split per item. An empty selector box, and a like heart that didn't render on some computers, were fixed as well.
This very page was created
Since the process — not the finished look — is the concept of this site, it got its own menu and this page. Home page spacing and the YouTube button icon were tidied at the same time.
When you're signed in, the "Log in · Sign up" text in the top menu now turns into your account name, so you can tell at a glance on any page.
Login, for the first time
Sign-up and login were built for the first time — both email with password and Google sign-in. The menu item started as an icon on the right; after feedback that it was hard to spot, it moved to the left as an orange text link.
The top menu was also cut down to four items, and the About page rewritten in much more detail.
Deciding what this site is
The whole site was redesigned. My own apps moved to the top, and this was when I first wrote the home tagline: not "finished", but "a work in progress".
An admin-only post editor and quiet visitor statistics were added. The Beauty art page received a VIABLE company introduction and income-disclosure section based on the official disclosure.
Where it started
It began with a feels-like temperature calculator — the first coding I ever did. try3rd.com started with just two pages: the calculator and an about page.
Then came working apps, one after another: a scientific calculator, a lottery generator, a trip room assigner, an AI meal analyzer. All within three days.