--- title: "Adding badges to my website" date: 2023-11-26T22:57:08-05:00 draft: false tags: [] math: false medium_enabled: false --- I've been coming across more [neocities](https://neocities.org/) websites recently. It's really cool how many people there hand craft their HTML and CSS to really make a website theirs. One idea I'm stealing for my website is adding web badges. ![Example Badge](/badges/fedora.gif) These web badges are often small images that shows a product or message. Historically, it dates back to when Netscape in 1996 made the [Netscape Now!](https://sillydog.org/netscape/now.html) badge. Since then, the Geocities picked it up and standardized many of the web badges to have a pixel size of 88x31. These badges are sometimes animated as GIFs, though they usually don't hold dynamic information. In recent times, we've seen badges hold dynamic information such as [code coverage on GitHub](https://github.com/badges/shields). Also, Wikipedia has Userboxes that people can add to their User Pages to show dynamic information about themselves. [Ruben's User Page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:RubenSchade/Userboxes) showcases many of these. Though to get started with my own website, I decided to look primarily at the traditional 88x31 style web badges. Looking around the web, there are some webpages that have large listings of web badges: https://web.badges.world/ https://cyber.dabamos.de/ https://capstasher.neocities.org/ From there, we can (1) pick the ones we like (2) download them, and (3) upload them to our webserver. We can then create the `img` tag in our footer to showcase them. ```html ```