People are sharing a lot of resources on how to make your own website so I've updated the website-building section of my site with a link to some of the best I've found. PLEASE make your own website, it is fun (sometimes)! Fast (sometimes)!! Free (sometimes)!!! 💻 evegwood.com/links#resour...
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I tries using wordpress and got pissed at the limitations so thank you so much!!
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Could also look into the tildeverse, find yourself a pubnix server you like and join up. You get a shell account and free hosting for your web page (among other services). If you own a domain you can just point it there.
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Thank you for linking my guide 🙏🏾
you can also commission very broke transfem software engineers to build you websites 👋
If you want a free webshop and website with easy wysiwig editing that's aimed at UK folks (with our increasingly weird relationship with the rest of the world) then I always recommend Payhip. They only take a cut of your sales, not your listings. Hosting is free, they handle EU Digital Goods VAT
Their servers are here in the UK so not subject to complications with cross-border data handling weirdness, and their support has been excellent. They're also very responsive to users requesting new features.
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If I do this won't I still need visa or Mastercard as a payment processor?
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I used Hugo to made mine, at first it seemed impossible but now its up and running! It's really awesome to have that space
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Was thinking recently of creating my own website for my characters. Making your own website is a lot of work, but I think it could still be worth it. Thanks for sharing and all those that keep sharing their advice in the comments!
for everyone that happens upon here... i like www.freecodecamp.org ; they have a lessons kinda model that works really well for my brain. its similar to codehs which i also really liked but um, unlike freecodecamp it codehs uh,, isnt free, lol. it + w3schools taught me a lot
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I made a little classless css library for semantic html if you want to make a basic site look good without messing with css digitallytailored.github.io/Classless.css/
I have some resources available as well related to understanding domain names and low-cost shop platforms! And a few notes on accessibility, search indexing, link previews, etc~ help.deguwebdev.com
My problem is always that I can easily code the most complex stuff, but have zero clue on how to make stuff look nice. It just doesn't click with my brain. So often I get disencouraged and not finish or maintain my websites, because they look bad and I don't know how to make them look better 😁
Look into style sheets (CSS). Once you make the site functional, you can beautify it later. Also, you can organize and group elements with divs and spans.
I know how css works, I just don't know how to make something beautiful (or rather not ugly). It's something my artist wife is scratching her head over 😁 being color blind is probably half the problem. My art was always the written word for that reason.
Besides building a website yourself, W3Schools is by far the best free way to learn HTML & CSS (and more!) I have ever used
I have been using them for decades, they’re awesome and they cover pretty much everything!
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nekoweb is another free hosting site similar to neocities!
I've been building ours with Hugo and hosting on neocities and it's been great. I even setup a GitHub action that automatically uploads/updates the site to neocities when I make a git commit
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i built my website from scratch with my own bare hands and it isn't nearly as fun and expressive as what else is out there (check out the Cool Websites section of the same link above for examples) but it's MINE and no one controls it but ME. people will always be able to find my work there.
neocities is FREE!!!!!!!! NEOCITIES IS FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! NEOCITIES IS FREE!!! IT'S FREE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I've always had a soft spot for links pages thanks to my early webcomic days, where every comic site had a section dedicated to what the artist was reading, but the art of the ~*~Links Page~*~ is dying bc of social media. Thinking a lot about this article: thoughts.melonking.net/thoughts/eve... 🔗
muting the thread now so if you got problems or questions or comments that's a shame ✌️
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Remember web rings? Sites that had a shared theme would cross link with little banners, eg I was in equi-ring for horse education sites. At the bottom of each main page you placed a banner that linked the viewer to the next site in the ring, so you passed viewers around your community to learn more
i actually run a webring myself! knifebeetle.neocities.org
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You might want to put Nekoweb in there as well. It's similar to Neocities, but EU hosted, thus less likely to be rugpulled by a dictator.
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I’d also recommend adding www.freecodecamp.org to the tutorial section; it’s how I got my start as a web dev (doing it professionally now). W3Schools has a history of providing inaccurate info, so I usually point folks toward developer.mozilla.org/en-US/ for documentation instead.
If you are looking for a good host for your website. i advise "Vicetemple" they are cheap (starting at 6 bucks a month), dedicated to adult content, and situated in a country/city were adult content is a religion (amsterdam :p) that's where i hosted mine vicetemple.com
I have no idea whether I would need to use this, but you know what? I’m saving it anyway.
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im just so sleepy though
Pinning to have a look at later! Thanks for posting this! 📌
But who has relatively inexpensive hosting? That doesn't suck. I've tried a few but after one year they raise their prices significantly to renew.
Neocities. $5 a month for everything you need
I've had good experiences with Nixihost, I pay $6 a month forever
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Yep. I started my own message board because I wanted a place where I could just speak freely, and of course for anyone else who wants to be able to talk about left wing topics without being silenced for it by advertisers and corporate milquetoasts.
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I made my own simple site years back in HTML4 using CSS just to see if I could, using 2 books and peeking at other peoples’ code :) Great fun, it worked and very satisfying.
Great resource set, thank you!! One of my favorite things about Neocities/indie web in gen is going through everyone's toy boxes if they have coding/resource pages, it's so fun
I have two websites, one for each passion (writing and game design). Both built from the ground up using PHP, JavaScript, and CSS with a MySQL database. I love it and am proud of what I have created, even though it is not glamorous. W3Schools and Stack Overflow are two sources I frequently use.
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Some of these are outdated, being based on HTML 2.x Do NOT ever use HTML 2.x. It is obsolete and contains several deprecated tags and attributes that may function unpredictably on a modern browser. If you want to use single-page HTML, use HTML 3/4 or XHTML with embedded CSS code.
As a note, converting HTML 2.x to HTML 4 + Embedded CSS or XHTML + Embedded CSS is actually quite easy. Just create style names to replace each of the major HTML 2.x tags then use those. Most modern browsers run HTML 2.x through a similar script tied into a quirks CSS/JS loader document.
I think for more reliable rendering someone should write a tool that does this conversion for web page authors.
An HTML 1-2 to XHTML/CSS Core strict converter would be a godsend. This would go double if it could add SVG embedding of images for single page publication and then have a script to break it up into multiple pages for parallel loading once on the server.
Another thing that would be cool is a simplified HTML similar to Coffeescript is to Javascript that is easily converted by the appropriate XHTML/CSS loader page.
I wrote a tutorial on how to use Eleventy, a free tool for converting Markdown posts to HTML web pages! github.com/nycki93/elev...
Can't not recommend Grawlix, as a bit more advanced php alternative to Rarebit. My webcomic uses it! github.com/Ayemae/Grawl...
i'll add it!
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📌 looking at this later ty :)
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(guy with suspicious nekoweb username) hey you should try nekoweb
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o shit thank u so much!!
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I like to use hugo gohugo.io, with the code hosted on a Github repository, and the actual website hosted (for free) on Cloudflare Pages Including the website I made for my best friend (a sex worker) to list all her profiles: bunnyislewd.com
FYI, you probably want to set the top photo's width to auto or else provide an appropriate object-fit property, otherwise it's quite squashed horizontally, being a 4:3 image in a 1:1 container
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Thank you for your hard work! I miss the Internet being fun. 🥲 📌
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Ty for compiling this!! 📌
the mozilla developer network is also an invaluable resource, it's always the first thing i refer to when i need to check how something works developer.mozilla.org/en-US/
Thank you!
:D 📌 I'll look into these later!
I need a tutorial for Neocities because I want to make my website with Neocities
Neocities isn't an easy website builder like Carrd or Wordpress. Neocities is just a host for your files that you need to write the code for yourself (or use a template instead)
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Please do NOT get tempted by the YouTuber ads promoting Wix and Squarespace. They are insanely overpriced and have awful customer service. They're the Walmart of web hosts. Wix is also an Israeli company which... yeah
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