Everyone talks about how sick they are of social media, but then they don’t make a personal web site where they can share their thoughts without any of the downsides of social media! Let’s make having a personal website cool again.
Mine right now is just a springboard towards projects that reside elsewhere on the Internet, but I would like to expand it with a knowledge base of stuff on various topics I’m passionate about instead of keeping all of that knowledge locked away in hours of my podcast.
I long for the good old days of the Internet, where most of the pages you visited were documents instead of applications. It’s never too late to experience making your own Web site, and low-techsimple websites are making a comeback anyway. Ride the wave! Share your home pages and ask for help if you need it!
I hear zonelets are good for anyone who wants to set up a wordpress type blog using neocities, have been meaning to try if I ever having an actual, uh, idea for one.
I recently made a retro website for Preserving Worlds that gives a lot of supporting info for the series and links out to useful educational resources and utilities for the games we featured: https://preservingworlds.net/
Also, here’s a website I made for my feature back when I was first learning HTML and CSS: https://sarasotamovie.com/
I wrote that last homepage in notepad. I miss writing websites from scratch, but the practicalities of things like Wordpress have taken me away from that
after yesterday’s failure i decided to try again and managed to put up some placeholders thanks to cobbling together tumblr css and some codes from neocities itself. i completely nuked my other account and started over. here’s the link:
It made me extremely nostalgic to right-click-view-source and just copy and paste shit. And trace CSS files back and everything, it’s a great time.
(I am downplaying the amount of work I put into getting the SVG background to show up properly, changes in palette, tiny bits of JS here and there, etc. etc.)