Submit a Valentine

Ways to participate:

Create a card:

Image-based
Code-based
Text-based

Create a webpage:

A blog post
A shrine
Anything related to Valentine's Day or love!

Multiple submissions are allowed and encouraged! ♡

Create a card:

The main display on the event page will be a gallery of valentine's cards created by you! Feel free to interpret the greeting card theme as literally or as loosely as you'd like. Maybe you'll take inspiration from cheesy eCards, come up with some web-related puns, or express admiration and support for your fellow webmasters. Maybe your card won't be a card at all, but a locket holding a picture of what's dear to you. Maybe your submission will just have a big 'ol heart on it. It's up to you!

Even though the 32-Bit Cafe Discord server is 18+, please keep your cards PG-13.
A pink and red color palette is not required.

Image-based cards

Pixel art, traditional art, photography, graphic design, we love it all! Send us two images and we'll display it like the example on the main page, shown again below.

XOXO,

your name here

Guidelines:

The two images must be the same size.
The maximum allowed width is 250px and the maximum height is 300px.

Code-based cards

Because we're a community centered around crafting websites, we wanted to try allowing code as submissions for this event. Will it be a challenge to put it all together? Maybe! Will it be fun? Yes!

To make this work, we're going to have you go against best practices and use inline styling only. This is to prevent each card's styling from conflicting with the other submissions. View the source of this page to see how the cards are formatted and check out the inline styling on the example below.

I'm proud to have you on my button wall, Valentine!

XOXO,

your name here

Guidelines:

We recommend downloading this event's stylesheet so you can test out your code with the animation along with fonts, default padding, etc.
Please specify the dimensions of your card on the <div class="book">. The maximum allowed width is 250px and the maximum height is 300px.
Links within cards are broken, so avoid includng them. Mouse and touchscreen users can't click links on the front page because the card opens, and keyboard users can't see focused links on the inner page because the card will be closed.
Because of the restriction to inline styling, you won't be able to load custom fonts. The fonts on this page are Borel and Raleway. You can also use web safe fonts.

Text-based cards

This option is the easiest! Just send us the text you'd like to appear on each page of the card, and we'll put it together for you! It'll look something like the example below.

Your text here!

I'll adjust the
size & colors.

What will
you write?

So many possibilities...

XOXO,

your name here

Guidelines:

You may include <b>, <i>, or <u> tags for style.
The cards are small, so submissions should be less than 300 characters per page.

Create a webpage:

Like previous 32-Bit Cafe events (Holiday, Halloween), you can participate by submitting a webpage based on the theme. This can take the form of a blog post, a shrine, or anything else you can dream up! We're excited to see what you create!

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