The Internet Explorer window is the most visually bombastic component in Log Portfolio. It channels peak-1999 GeoCities energy: a black background dusted with a stardust texture, a pulsing yellow headline, lime-green marquee text, a magenta border glow, and a visitor counter rendered in a pixel font. The blog post inside is written in the voice of a developer who just discovered React and isn’t sure how to feel about it.Documentation Index
Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://mintlify.com/apursley2012/log-portfolio/llms.txt
Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further.
Retro Design Elements
| Element | Implementation |
|---|---|
| Background | bg-black with inline backgroundImage pointing to transparenttextures.com/patterns/stardust.png |
| Page title | text-yellow-400 drop-shadow-[2px_2px_0_red] animate-pulse — creates a red drop-shadow and a slow pulsing animation |
| Marquee | Native <marquee> element with bg-blue-900 text-lime-400 border-y-2 border-lime-400 and font-pixel |
| Blog card border | border-4 border-double with shadow-[0_0_15px_#ff00ff] for the magenta glow effect |
| Visitor counter | Fixed string 00042 rendered inside a bg-black border-2 border-gray-600 box with font-pixel text-red-500 tracking-[0.2em] |
| Under construction GIFs | Two <img> tags fetching the classic animated GIF from web.archive.org |
| Browser badges | Two bg-gray-800 bordered labels: Best viewed in Netscape and 800x600 Resolution |
Marquee Text
The marquee scrolls the following string across a dark blue bar:Blog Post Content
The blog card (max-w-2xl mx-auto bg-gray-900/80) contains two sections separated by a dashed cyan <hr>:
My Web Development Journey
Today I discovered something amazing called “React”. It’s like DHTML but way more complicated! I still prefer using Dreamweaver, but everyone says this is the future.Top 5 HTML Tags — rendered as a
list-disc list-inside unordered list:
<blink>(RIP)<marquee><center><font color="red"><table border="1">
Visitor Counter
The counter is a hardcoded string00042 displayed in a black bordered box below the blog content:
"00042" inside the Q component in components/Desktop.js.
Customizing
Edit the marquee text
Find the
<marquee> element inside the Q component in components/Desktop.js and replace the children string with your own scrolling announcement.Edit the blog post
The blog body is a JSX
<p> element inside the Q component. Replace the text content with your own story. The <hr> divider, Top 5 list, and visitor counter are all separate JSX nodes immediately below it.Change the visitor counter
Edit the hardcoded
"00042" string inside the counter <div>. All characters are rendered in the pixel font, so any digit string (or fun ASCII art) will display correctly.The
<marquee> element is deprecated in modern HTML but still renders in all current browsers. It is used intentionally here as a period-accurate retro element — resist the urge to replace it with a CSS animation unless you’re prepared to lose the authentic GeoCities vibe.