Under construction
Welcome to this website! I can't believe I'm actually wasting my vacation time building this shit. In good Geocities fashion, Don't be a Shiela is being released while it's still a work in progress. It might get finished one day. Or it might end up joining the limbo of eternally under construction websites.
For the time being, enjoy these freebies!
Beea
Yes, I gave this font my own name. I'm that nacissistic. I should also mention that my handwriting is a lot uglier in real life. I have nothing else to say. Just click on this totally legit button to download the font.
I'm legit, trust meShiela
What's even more inconvenient than a Shelia? That's right, it's a font named Shiela that only lets you write misspelled variations of Sheila and barely sensical sentences like this one:
Shall hale Shelia heal all hail ail eh
The truth is that I'm too lazy to draw all the glyphs. Swat the bee to download it. You're allowed to ask your cat for help.
🐝Palm Leaf Rag, composed in 1903 by Scott Joplin and performed in 2016 by James Brigham, via Wikimedia Commons
"But who are you, to begin with?", you might be asking yourself. There isn't much to tell about myself. All I can say is that I certainly am not Shiela.
As for the website, I decided to create a guide about Shiela because I was out of better ideas. I have to fill this paragraph for the sake of design, so I'll list the tools I've used so far. My computer is a notebook that has the Vaio logo on its lid, but is actually manufactured in the Free Economic Zone of Manaus by a Brazilian company called Positivo (they basically acquired the rights to use the Vaio trademark). If you ask any Brazilian about Positivo, they'll tell you it is garbage. The text editor is Kate. Why Kate? Because I liked the mascot. VS Code is boring and I've tried using Vim because it's the shit that comes in every Unix based OS out of the box, but ended up figuring out a way to get out of it. Regarding the vector graphics, the simpler ones, like the play and pause symbols, were written using Kate, and the rest, including the fonts, were drawn on Inkscape with a cheap Huion HS64 pen tablet. Speaking of fonts, I used Fontforge, although the GUI gives an intimidating 90's vibe.
This website is supposed to look OK on all modern browsers, but Firefox is the one that renders it the best. Especially the font-stroke CSS property on the header. I don't understand why all the other ones insist on creating these weird spikes... I might have to switch to SVG later.