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Note: Web pages and graphics on this site were produced with the assistance of ChatGPT.

Methods
Art and design: All the stories, web pages, illustrations, and content are mine (heapingscorn.com). ChatGPT's render engine makes most of the illustrations from my drawings and prompts. I often modify those illustrations, and create addditional art as needed.

HTML and CCS: ChatGPT scripts about 75% of the html and all of the CCS. I edit and maintain all the pages, though with much assistance from ChatGPT.

Prose: All mine, but some is vetted by ChatGPT for spelling and grammar. ChatGPT's sole writing contribution is the artist bios in the Artists Gallery It's an excellent piece.

Tools

  • ChatGPT
  • iPad Air Gen 4 (compact and reliable, but inferior file management and software)
  • Affinity Designer for compositing (super cheap but an incomprehensible UI, buggy, and zero documentation)
  • Affinity Photo for drawing and image editing and management (also super cheap and just as crap as AFF Designer)
  • Koder (a little buggy, but nothing fatal, and easy to use)
  • Namecheap domain and hosting tools (difficult to navigate, but I'm not tech savvy, so over my head from the jump; easy to contact competent tech support)

Feels
Growing the site is a ponderous slog through experiments and incremental tweaks of layout, storytelling, and images. In other words, It's great fun. -heapingscorn.com