TANTALIZING TALES!
MAD SCIENCE!
COSTUMES AND TREATS!
Hang on, this picture is only one bit. What about the other 31?!
'Tis the Season...
It's time for a Halloween extravaganza! The 32-bit Cafe invites you to join us in celebrating the spooky season with a two-week webweaving party!
This event is open for submissions from October 13th to October 27th!
How to Participate
For this year's Halloween event, there are four ways you can participate! You can do one or two or three or even all of them if you're feeling especially festive!
CREEPY COSTUMES!
Dress up your website! Make a Halloween theme or put up some decorations and submit a link to show off your site's spooky look in our costume showcase! Please also include a Wayback Machine or other archival snapshot - such as a dedicated page on your site - of your decorations, so that the decor can be viewed even after the Halloween season ends!
DREADFUL DOORS!
Make a page featuring a front door for visitors to trick-or-treat at! Hand out treats or tricks... or nothing at all; a dark porch with the lights turned off is an important part of Halloween, too, after all.
Please submit a picture of a door for the display page as well as a link to your door's page! Your display door should be approximately 250px tall (or at least look okay shrunk down to that size!) and a maximum of 250px wide.
(W)ROTTEN WRITING!
Do you have a favorite cryptid, urban legend, haunted house, or scary story? A harrowing tale? An exclusive scoop on a phenomenon unknown to science??? Spread the word! Submit a piece of Halloween writing to the spectacular and salacious Sensationalist Spectre Spectator - the 32-bit Gazette's disreputable sister publication.
Submissions will be formatted into a newspaper-like presentation (similar to this very page!) for display! Submit any bit of writing about ghosts, cryptids, hauntings, monsters, or anything else Halloweenish. Feel free to submit a link to your piece hosted on your own site as well as the text! Maximum of 2000 words, please.
FRIGHTENING FRANKENSITE!
Participate in a mad scientific experiment with an exquisite corpse of a page!
Submit one Halloween-themed div, styled however you want - any size, any shape! At the end of the event, all the submitted divs will be stitched together into one Frankenpage! Will there be too many headers or none at all? Perhaps it'll be absolutely chock full of pumpkins?! Heh heh heh... only one way to find out!
Need ideas for what to put in your Frankendiv?
- ...a fond Halloween memory!
- ...a scary movie recommendation!
- ...a fistful of candy!
- ...a ghost story!
- ...your favorite Halloween costume art of your favorite characters!
- ...a navigation bar! Sure, you don't know what will be there, but you can take a guess...
- ...a footer with SCARY MONSTER FEET!
- ...an assortment of Halloween color palettes!
“I don't have a site. Can I still participate?”
Yes! Your writing and Frankendiv don't need to have dedicated homes outside of this event. Submit away! That said, this is a great opportunity to create a homepage, and two weeks is a good amount of time to get started! There is a guide to creating your own website here: 32bit.cafe/cyowebsite and many more resources and tutorials linked on the 32-Bit Cafe site and forums.
