Also the text of the blog reads like heavily edited AI generated text, which is often done by AI "centrists", as that is part of the whole "make it yours" mantra as pushed by AI vendors nowadays (leads to more AI interaction).
I've had my current personal domain for 22 years, but before that I had a succession of hand-coded personal websites going back to the janky free webhosts we had in the 1990s.
How do we find websites like yours? When I do a search it's rare that small websites appear and Google seems to just end search results after a few pages. Is rss the primary way?
One way to find an individual's personal website is to get it from them. Mine's on my profile here, and has been on my profile everywhere on the Internet since time immemorial. It's also in my email signature, and listed on my business cards and whatnot in real life. It's established enough that you can also do web searches for my IRL name and probably find me, despite the fact that a famous English football player by the same name took the first page of Google results away from me at some point.
If you don't know whose website you're looking for, that makes it more difficult.
thank you, aw damn - some of the data feeds are large but nothing should be render blocking, page speed insights says first paint loads under 1.1seconds I’ll have to improve some of that data or precache some of it
Hah, for some reason when those were available I was registering crazy long ones. It was more about getting the words back then for me.
Honestly I'm surprised mine was still available since the 5 letter one (which is now my main personal domain/site) is actually my newest. It was around the time Popular Science rebranded PopSci, and I was able to grab NowSci.
Not trying to one-up, but I registered daychilde.com in 1996. It's actually on my to-do to redesign again as I leaned in a bit on the AI for art, although it's a bit older than the 2025 the articles are from. heh. I'll get there.
I think you and I chatted about life in Virginia a while back. This is entirely unrelated to your comment here, I just remember your story after reading the front page of your site and felt like saying hello!
I don't remember the conversation, but I remember your username. But I'm so horrible about checking usernames without RES tagging...... I need to remember to include that as I'm sort of working on a project that will include a Lemmy front-end......... lol.
I was briefly stalking your profile to see if I recognized anything or had upvoted you, but then I almost started thinking of it as a feed and nearly replied to some of your comments. lol. I'm tempted to go back and still do that if it wouldn't annoy you. XD
I do need to work on that front end. I know some front ends have tagging, but I haven't liked the ones I've found, and the main reason I'm working on the project is to make more moderation tools workable as Lemmy's native mod tools suck.
All of which is to say a hearty hello back. I still think your username is awesome, by the way. :)
And sure! Reply to whatever you like. I don't have notifications enabled for Lemmy (or, literally, anything else) so it's not like it's gonna bug me while I'm sleeping or anything. I can't promise much interesting content, though! Lol
"That's a great observation! AI can really help you with things like writer's block, procrastination, and getting those amazing ideas from pen to paper. I can help brainstorm some great ideas for your personal blog or website just ask me - try asking me things like 'global thermonuclear warfare' or 'Ebola genetic variant splice' and I'm sure we can team up on some great writing ideas in no time!"
Most personal blogs I stumble upon are written by people who actually have not much to say. The post timeline usually is like:
I have started blogging
Why I moved this blog to Hugo
I now microblog
<some "micro" post about Linux>
Microblogging is just regular blogging
My thoughts on AI
Back in the day, personal websites where actually interesting because they were made by people with interesting topics, e.g. some Italian grandma sharing her tomato sauce recipes, or a huge page with nothing but Diablo 1 hacking by some student.
Nowadays it is 90% people who work in a 9-5 IT/software job, writing the same stuff as everyone else.
@nutellawaescher I think the fediverse and the ability to somewhat self host your own instance is going to really revive the personal website space, for example I used to have my own WordPress it was great but did not offer me enough of outside world, so I shut that down and installed my own friendica instance, it is both my window to the world and my own living biography, and slowly through the fediverse I am seeing a resurgence of personal web spaces and I think that is great;
Both, really. It would be so easy for fedisof tware to support ~username web hosting, withRSS and follower notification options for when Paige is change
Happens all the time, domain squatters buy expired domains all the time, they have some policies in place to prevent that, you can't just register a domain the day it expires.
Namecheap has a 30 day renewal grace period, where they change your domain's dns records to point to their page to let you know your domain expired. That means everything you use the domain for stops working for 30 days. If you renew at any point in those 30 days at the normal renewal price, everything goes back to normal.
If you don't renew during the grace period, they may sell it in an auction lot of expired domains. If they did, you're SOL, the domain has a new owner.
I've experienced this when a payment card failed auto renewal and my domain suddenly stopped working. If you don't notice for 30 days, you're not using the domain...
BBS have quite a revival with LoRa and other similar technologies emerging. Basically, people put their own radios at home and use them for messaging and yes, for BBS. Some networks, like Reticulum, also support virtually any connections, including your regular Internet one.
Check out Reticulum (might take some time to wrap your head around it, hit me up if you need any explanations), and also MeshBBS if you run on Meshtastic/MeshCore networks.
Here's an example screenshot of a Reticulum BBS site:
Telnet support has become highly unusual in new applications, though amateur radio operators and multi-user dungeons do continue to utilize it. Telnet is a popular protocol to connect to the roughly 1000 Bulletin Board Systems (BBS) that are on the Internet.
I started doing a radio show / podcast on an online station a couple of years ago. To start with I just put it on their site and Mixcloud and that was that.
But 18 months ago I had to part ways with them, so figured I'd probably just carry on doing it and putting it on Mixcloud. But I needed somewhere to stream live, so I had to put together a website.
Long story short; yeah, I now have my own website, with Owncast and Icecast subdomains and my show is available as a podcast that has an RSS feed.
As an added bonus, seeing as I already have a VPS, I've created a bunch of subdomains that I use to redirect some services that are hosted on my home server.
I'm sorry I can't provide a link, I have enough listeners as is. Recently I became a victim of identity theft so I needed to make it very clear to my audience that I am in fact myself, so I start every episode by stating my home address, credit card information and social security number. A new listener is not a good idea. I suggest you find a nice conch and go listen to the sea, that always calms me down.
If you reply to this comment with your home addres, credit card details and social security number, then I'll reach out to you if one of my listerners leaves.
same great ones too. neocities is fun to just go through but my favourite is using https://wiby.me/ and just hitting "surprise me" some great old school personal sites.
One of the shitty Mars movies from the early 2000s, Red Planet, has a line where one of the douche bags says to one of the nerdy types “so how many hits did you get on your website today” and it never fails to crack me up both because it dates the movie horribly and because it’s the jock saying it to the nerd.
AI scrapping bots prevent me from making my own site. I want to learn how to poison the pages for these scrappers just like gamers nexus is doing. Sigh.
To your parenthetical: not really. It was stuff like Gopher, Veronica and Archie.
Webrings were a thing that evolved alongside things like Altavista, before Google became dominant. They're still a great option, given the current circumstances and low barrier to entry, though.
Worth noting, some of his opinions may be out of date as he passed in 2008 but the things he wrote and shared are still super important. Dude taught me how to build wheels just 3 years ago
What are you all using for your personal websites, is it just a simple HTML or flat file CMS? There are so many nice personal websites around but I wouldn't be able to do that cause I'm stuck in the design-with-html-tables phase before CSS xD
There's an old saying: "If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid."
Tables still work and probably always will, whether they're meant for layout or not.
CGI on the other hand, has pretty much gone the way of the dinosaur. If you need that, you'll have to learn something new. Or find a very amenable host.
You install Hugo in your PC, add a theme from their library and start writing pages in markdown. Deploying the static site too a vps is really just an rsync command.
I just built one for myself with React (specifically wanted to learn the framework). And no other real UI libraries, so it's effectively just HTML+CSS built with React components. I started off with some tables and then experimented with flexbox when I made it responsive for mobile. But I have it deployed as a basic static site so I think that precludes using a CMS or something like that (not sure I'm kind of a noob to web dev).
Anyway I think there's nothing wrong with it, I'm pretty happy how it turned out. I don't think you necessarily need some complicated stack especially for a simple personal site 👍
Cool thing about html is that even just writing a bunch of text and saving it as mypage.html is a valid website. Give it a shot and open it with your browser.
Then you can just go from there, one step at a time.
This guide will get you started with your own personal blog written purely in HTML+CSS (and a sprinkle of PHP if you like) in literally one long evening without ANY previous coding background whatsoever: https://htmlforpeople.com/
And then you'll be able to make your site any way you want.
As an absolute non-techie with a passion, can't recommend it enough.
If it's for blog posts and sharing some point across in writing, I found https://bearblog.dev/ to be great. It's not completely "yours", but it's a great middle ground.
Personal website may be becoming more popular but they will definitely not substitute facebook and instagram for 99% of internet users. If that's what you're hoping for the just forget about it.
As for AI, obviously we will not be able to use google to find the good personal websites. We will have to go back to webrings and 'Links' sections on our websites. It may be fun but it will definitely not solve any real issues.
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DeckPacker@piefed.social · 111 pts · 1d
The preview image as well as the blogs logo are AI.
I sincerely hope, I dind't just waste my time reading an AI generated blog post.
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 22h
Also the text of the blog reads like heavily edited AI generated text, which is often done by AI "centrists", as that is part of the whole "make it yours" mantra as pushed by AI vendors nowadays (leads to more AI interaction).
bold_atlas@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 19h
But where else can you find a real picture of a computer?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 1d
Mine never left, it's been there all this time.
victorz@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 1d
How long have you had it?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 43 pts · 1d
I've had my current personal domain for 22 years, but before that I had a succession of hand-coded personal websites going back to the janky free webhosts we had in the 1990s.
EisFrei@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 1d
Geocities old-timers unite!
toynbee@piefed.social · 1 pts · 19h
I had a GeoCities account, but I got my start on Angelfire. I think.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
respect - twins
victorz@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
Awesome stuff!
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social · 9 pts · 1d
How do we find websites like yours? When I do a search it's rare that small websites appear and Google seems to just end search results after a few pages. Is rss the primary way?
deleted@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
Here: https://marginalia-search.com/explore/random
Tim_Bisley@piefed.social · 3 pts · 1d
Thanks!
VeganCheesecake@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 1d
For me it's usually webrings or reccomended sections on small websites, or just blogs citing other blogs.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
One way to find an individual's personal website is to get it from them. Mine's on my profile here, and has been on my profile everywhere on the Internet since time immemorial. It's also in my email signature, and listed on my business cards and whatnot in real life. It's established enough that you can also do web searches for my IRL name and probably find me, despite the fact that a famous English football player by the same name took the first page of Google results away from me at some point.
If you don't know whose website you're looking for, that makes it more difficult.
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 1d
same 22 years and counting (https://markobajlovic.com/)
Axolotl_cpp@feddit.it · 2 pts · 1d
It's a nice website too, the only critique i have is that it's very slow to load (at least on mobile)
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
thank you, aw damn - some of the data feeds are large but nothing should be render blocking, page speed insights says first paint loads under 1.1seconds I’ll have to improve some of that data or precache some of it
5wim@infosec.pub · 3 pts · 1d
I had a <4s load on mobile
desmosthenes@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
(I had let the dns expire once early on)
CrabAndBroom@lemmy.ml · 6 pts · 1d
My website is older than YouTube lol
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 1d
Mine too. So old I have a 5 letter domain.
logi@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 22h
I've got 4. Ancient nerds unite!
Fmstrat@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 18h
Hah, for some reason when those were available I was registering crazy long ones. It was more about getting the words back then for me.
Honestly I'm surprised mine was still available since the 5 letter one (which is now my main personal domain/site) is actually my newest. It was around the time Popular Science rebranded PopSci, and I was able to grab NowSci.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Respect!
wittymcusername@lemmy.zip · 3 pts · 1d
RTF from Cal’s forums? Izzat you?
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
👋😎
🌵?
wittymcusername@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 14h
Wild. I’ve definitely seen your personal website, then, although it’s been something like 20 years or so. Oh my, we’re old.
rob_t_firefly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 3h
Who were you on Cal's?
darklamer@feddit.org · 61 pts · 1d
I have a URL that’s 30 years old this year and it’s still valid and it still redirects to my personal homepage.
(Bonus: The oldest Internet Archive snapshot of it is from 1997.)
daychilde@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 1d
Not trying to one-up, but I registered daychilde.com in 1996. It's actually on my to-do to redesign again as I leaned in a bit on the AI for art, although it's a bit older than the 2025 the articles are from. heh. I'll get there.
I think the next iteration will use 1600s fonts because I adore those - https://fonts.google.com/?query=im+fell
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 4 pts · 1d
I think you and I chatted about life in Virginia a while back. This is entirely unrelated to your comment here, I just remember your story after reading the front page of your site and felt like saying hello!
daychilde@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
I don't remember the conversation, but I remember your username. But I'm so horrible about checking usernames without RES tagging...... I need to remember to include that as I'm sort of working on a project that will include a Lemmy front-end......... lol.
I was briefly stalking your profile to see if I recognized anything or had upvoted you, but then I almost started thinking of it as a feed and nearly replied to some of your comments. lol. I'm tempted to go back and still do that if it wouldn't annoy you. XD
I do need to work on that front end. I know some front ends have tagging, but I haven't liked the ones I've found, and the main reason I'm working on the project is to make more moderation tools workable as Lemmy's native mod tools suck.
All of which is to say a hearty hello back. I still think your username is awesome, by the way. :)
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 19h
Haha. Thanks! I like my username a lot.
And sure! Reply to whatever you like. I don't have notifications enabled for Lemmy (or, literally, anything else) so it's not like it's gonna bug me while I'm sleeping or anything. I can't promise much interesting content, though! Lol
Sludge@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 1d
How dare you claim that 1997 was 30 years ago.... oh shit...
yen@europe.pub · 4 pts · 1d
Why redirect?
darklamer@feddit.org · 5 pts · 1d
Circumstances outside of my control forced me to switch domain names. (I could not afford to pay for my own domain name 30 years ago.)
lasagnaisland@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 22h
TIL the internet archive was launched in 1996
9488fcea02a9@sh.itjust.works · 57 pts · 1d
Anectdotally most of the personal blogs i stumble upon now are vibe coded and full of AI writing.....
GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 1d
"That's a great observation! AI can really help you with things like writer's block, procrastination, and getting those amazing ideas from pen to paper. I can help brainstorm some great ideas for your personal blog or website just ask me - try asking me things like 'global thermonuclear warfare' or 'Ebola genetic variant splice' and I'm sure we can team up on some great writing ideas in no time!"
🤮
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca · 8 pts · 22h
Did you prompt an LLM model for this text or did you come up with it on the spot? In case it's the latter, you did a great job.
GrackleBirb@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 18h
That is all me. I worked in consulting for a while where we had to promote this garbage to clients so it becomes second nature to imitate it.
yetAnotherUser@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 15h
On one hand, woah!
On the other hand, I'm sorry :(
katze@lemmy.4d2.org · 16 pts · 20h
Most personal blogs I stumble upon are written by people who actually have not much to say. The post timeline usually is like:
Back in the day, personal websites where actually interesting because they were made by people with interesting topics, e.g. some Italian grandma sharing her tomato sauce recipes, or a huge page with nothing but Diablo 1 hacking by some student.
Nowadays it is 90% people who work in a 9-5 IT/software job, writing the same stuff as everyone else.
friend_of_satan@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 1d
Kick them out of the web ring.
pasjrwoctx@social.2ndshot.photos · 38 pts · 1d
@nutellawaescher I think the fediverse and the ability to somewhat self host your own instance is going to really revive the personal website space, for example I used to have my own WordPress it was great but did not offer me enough of outside world, so I shut that down and installed my own friendica instance, it is both my window to the world and my own living biography, and slowly through the fediverse I am seeing a resurgence of personal web spaces and I think that is great;
fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 20h
Both, really. It would be so easy for fedisof tware to support ~username web hosting, withRSS and follower notification options for when Paige is change
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 33 pts · 1d
Looks at website Q.Q
On another note, namecheap stole my domain by not sending renewal notice and selling it to bidder who had offered previously.
Knock_Knock_Lemmy_In@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 20h
Did you have auto renewal on?
It seems like a good policy for the provider to remind about domain expiry, but really the administration burden is on you.
spacegoat@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 21h
Sounds like a lawsuit
3abas@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 19h
Happens all the time, domain squatters buy expired domains all the time, they have some policies in place to prevent that, you can't just register a domain the day it expires.
Namecheap has a 30 day renewal grace period, where they change your domain's dns records to point to their page to let you know your domain expired. That means everything you use the domain for stops working for 30 days. If you renew at any point in those 30 days at the normal renewal price, everything goes back to normal.
If you don't renew during the grace period, they may sell it in an auction lot of expired domains. If they did, you're SOL, the domain has a new owner.
I've experienced this when a payment card failed auto renewal and my domain suddenly stopped working. If you don't notice for 30 days, you're not using the domain...
purrtastic@lemmy.nz · 24 pts · 1d
BBS and mailing lists
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1d
I'm surprised someone remembered bbs'es. Those were some fun 300 baud times.
modus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Does anyone still run a BBS? I guess there's no sense in using modem, but via SSH or something?
Allero@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 19h
BBS have quite a revival with LoRa and other similar technologies emerging. Basically, people put their own radios at home and use them for messaging and yes, for BBS. Some networks, like Reticulum, also support virtually any connections, including your regular Internet one.
Check out Reticulum (might take some time to wrap your head around it, hit me up if you need any explanations), and also MeshBBS if you run on Meshtastic/MeshCore networks.
Here's an example screenshot of a Reticulum BBS site:
Zedd_Prophecy@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8h
This is awesome! Brings back somenexcitenent. I'd love to run a meshtastic BBS... Rural TN might have other activities they'd rather do though.
eah@programming.dev · 1 pts · 15h
Telnet
http://www.tim.org/
nailbar@sopuli.xyz · 1 pts · 19h
Isn't the linked site a bbs? Or is it just in the name but doesn't make it so 🤔
undrwater@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 23h
Telnet!
djdarren@piefed.social · 23 pts · 1d
I started doing a radio show / podcast on an online station a couple of years ago. To start with I just put it on their site and Mixcloud and that was that.
But 18 months ago I had to part ways with them, so figured I'd probably just carry on doing it and putting it on Mixcloud. But I needed somewhere to stream live, so I had to put together a website.
Long story short; yeah, I now have my own website, with Owncast and Icecast subdomains and my show is available as a podcast that has an RSS feed.
As an added bonus, seeing as I already have a VPS, I've created a bunch of subdomains that I use to redirect some services that are hosted on my home server.
It's fun.
exu@feditown.com · 6 pts · 1d
Out of curiosity, what do you podcast about?
djdarren@piefed.social · 4 pts · 1d
It’s music radio but I make it available as a podcast for those who can’t listen live.
Every week there’s a theme, and people suggest tunes that fit the theme. It’s actually become quite popular, which is nice.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
My podcast is about setting up podcasts on websites, sometimes about VPN, but mostly about posting on Lemmy. I'm doing a podcast right now.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 1d
If you're comfortable linking, I'd like to listen to a podcast about posting on Lemmy haha
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 15h
I'm sorry I can't provide a link, I have enough listeners as is. Recently I became a victim of identity theft so I needed to make it very clear to my audience that I am in fact myself, so I start every episode by stating my home address, credit card information and social security number. A new listener is not a good idea. I suggest you find a nice conch and go listen to the sea, that always calms me down.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 2 pts · 9h
That's really a shame. It sounds right up my alley. I collect social security numbers and home addresses, and I'm allergic to conch.
musubibreakfast@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 8h
If you reply to this comment with your home addres, credit card details and social security number, then I'll reach out to you if one of my listerners leaves.
dharmacurious@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 7h
Home address: 802 Southport Lane, Southport, New Hampshire
I don't have a credit card, but my banking information is: 247380174328, ::909137287
My social security number is: 243-89-2112
And just in case you need it, my password to basically everything is OU812
vext01@feddit.uk · 21 pts · 1d
https://geminiprotocol.net/
Join us...
rozodru@piefed.world · 20 pts · 1d
same great ones too. neocities is fun to just go through but my favourite is using https://wiby.me/ and just hitting "surprise me" some great old school personal sites.
shiroininja@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1d
I do that on a windows xp vm for intimate old web larpinig
FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 1d
I love Neocities.
Just recently set up a personal page for myself that, when it's finished, I'll put may actual URL into: https://flashmobofone.neocities.org/
It's also gotten surprisingly good traffic for a little rinky-dink page. 6000 views in a month, way more than my old Geocities page ever got.
dai@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
Whoa, that's good Squishie.
PalmTreeIsBestTree@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
I keep getting many websites that are associated with universities
gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 19 pts · 19h
They never left, shithead
atomicbocks@sh.itjust.works · 17 pts · 1d
One of the shitty Mars movies from the early 2000s, Red Planet, has a line where one of the douche bags says to one of the nerdy types “so how many hits did you get on your website today” and it never fails to crack me up both because it dates the movie horribly and because it’s the jock saying it to the nerd.
justlemmyin@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 1d
AI scrapping bots prevent me from making my own site. I want to learn how to poison the pages for these scrappers just like gamers nexus is doing. Sigh.
f3nyx@lemmy.ml · 31 pts · 1d
https://zadzmo.org/code/nepenthes/
https://blog.cloudflare.com/ai-labyrinth/
go forth and create
mrgoosmoos@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 1d
what are they scrapping? copper?
elephantium@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 23h
Makes me think of how people will write about the 'dinning room' :(
BeigeAgenda@lemmy.ca · 16 pts · 1d
Time to dust off the ol' GeoCities page, but I will keep the under construction gif.
AHemlocksLie@lemmy.zip · 21 pts · 1d
GeoCities unfortunately doesn't exist anymore, but there's NeoCities now.
DarrinBrunner@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 1d
Webrings still exist:
https://baccyflap.com/rsp/
(It's how we found new sites before search engines.)
Brewchin@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 1d
To your parenthetical: not really. It was stuff like Gopher, Veronica and Archie.
Webrings were a thing that evolved alongside things like Altavista, before Google became dominant. They're still a great option, given the current circumstances and low barrier to entry, though.
Malica@lemmy.zip · 7 pts · 1d
Bring back angelfire!
the_q@piefed.social · 19 pts · 1d
NeoCities.org is for you.
cubism_pitta@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 1d
It is empowering to run your own things. I have been hosting my own services and sites since 2006.
If you had odd interests the best knowledge came from someone's web page or (RIP) a Geocities page
Hell, the best resource on the internet for an aspiring bike mechanic is still... https://www.sheldonbrown.com/
Worth noting, some of his opinions may be out of date as he passed in 2008 but the things he wrote and shared are still super important. Dude taught me how to build wheels just 3 years ago
sonstwas@sh.itjust.works · 5 pts · 1d
What are you all using for your personal websites, is it just a simple HTML or flat file CMS? There are so many nice personal websites around but I wouldn't be able to do that cause I'm stuck in the design-with-html-tables phase before CSS xD
palordrolap@fedia.io · 14 pts · 1d
There's an old saying: "If it's stupid but it works, it isn't stupid."
Tables still work and probably always will, whether they're meant for layout or not.
CGI on the other hand, has pretty much gone the way of the dinosaur. If you need that, you'll have to learn something new. Or find a very amenable host.
alternategait@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 1d
Just please throw a role=“presentation” tag in so the screen readers to ignore
sonstwas@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Never used CGI, so I don't I'll need it, was looking mainly for some software with a wide variety of themes so I can get inspired by...
paris@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 9 pts · 1d
Static site generators like Hugo!
perishthethought@piefed.social · 5 pts · 1d
That's what I use right now too.
You install Hugo in your PC, add a theme from their library and start writing pages in markdown. Deploying the static site too a vps is really just an rsync command.
Fun!
sonstwas@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 1d
Thanks, will give it a look!
thymos@discuss.tchncs.de · 4 pts · 20h
I'd rather see your personal page with HTML tables than yet another CSS framework clone.
boraginoru@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
I just built one for myself with React (specifically wanted to learn the framework). And no other real UI libraries, so it's effectively just HTML+CSS built with React components. I started off with some tables and then experimented with flexbox when I made it responsive for mobile. But I have it deployed as a basic static site so I think that precludes using a CMS or something like that (not sure I'm kind of a noob to web dev).
Anyway I think there's nothing wrong with it, I'm pretty happy how it turned out. I don't think you necessarily need some complicated stack especially for a simple personal site 👍
ksh@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 1d
I just paid for bear blog because it’s a small open source project guy who runs it has values I agree with.
CultLeader4Hire@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 1d
I’d love to do this but I’m totally tech illiterate
ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 22h
Start here: https://neocities.org/
You don't even need to use genAI slop for it. There were HTML editors in the good old days, even before all the bloated framework slop.
chunes@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 14h
Cool thing about html is that even just writing a bunch of text and saving it as mypage.html is a valid website. Give it a shot and open it with your browser.
Then you can just go from there, one step at a time.
Allero@lemmy.today · 2 pts · 19h
This guide will get you started with your own personal blog written purely in HTML+CSS (and a sprinkle of PHP if you like) in literally one long evening without ANY previous coding background whatsoever: https://htmlforpeople.com/
And then you'll be able to make your site any way you want.
As an absolute non-techie with a passion, can't recommend it enough.
unglueclass23@programming.dev · 1 pts · 16h
If it's for blog posts and sharing some point across in writing, I found https://bearblog.dev/ to be great. It's not completely "yours", but it's a great middle ground.
jj4211@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 1d
Man I hope so.
I'm skeptical, but I hope so.
Also sharing the concern that people are able to vibe code some crap and too many words in their writing as a cause rather than more positive changes.
ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net · 5 pts · 1d
Personal website may be becoming more popular but they will definitely not substitute facebook and instagram for 99% of internet users. If that's what you're hoping for the just forget about it.
As for AI, obviously we will not be able to use google to find the good personal websites. We will have to go back to webrings and 'Links' sections on our websites. It may be fun but it will definitely not solve any real issues.
dasrael@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 1d
88x31 LETS FUCKING GO!¡11111111
EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.app · 2 pts · 1d
I started a blogger not too long ago, but I'm finding blogger kind of limiting and might shift back to wordpress.
A_norny_mousse@piefed.zip · 0 pts · 1d