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Never heard of that website, but it's bookmarked now. I'll see how much I enjoy it. My boss discovered chatgpt and has made my life more difficult parsing through his shit.
I completely agree. I've had my own websites since the early 2000's maybe even 1999. It was hosted on angelfire and has the 8-bit animated GIF's to prove it.
Now-a-days, unless you can dedicate time to staying up to date on web development trends, I think you need to use a tool like Wordpress or Joomla (both with their own learning curves and occasional iterations changes and challenges) so your set renders well on all devices. I learned HTML and hand coded static pages which was easy and fun. Then CSS started to become a thing and I learned a little of that but I never officially hand-coded an HTML+CSS website.
One last bit of nostalgia, I loved Dreamweaver from Macromedia, which was one of the early major Mac OS 10 applications you could buy.
Done and done. And I mean done.
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Just rebuilt on Hugo static site generator. Hosted on a buddy’s server. So satisfying!
Couldn't have said it better myself. This is why I've been maintaining my own little personal site for two decades now. Can I interest you in my research publications, or perhaps my ongoing review series of a 30 year-old X-Men cartoon? https://jdobr.es/blog/xmen-s01e0102/
A shout out here for https://kagi.com/smallweb,a site that serves up random personal websites updated recently. It has brought me back that internet joy of old, where you stumble across somebody’s passion project and are delighted by their creativity. I now try to use it to replace my aimless doomscrolling!
https://kagi.com/smallweb for those who clicked the link and were confused :P
Anyone have service that provides free domain and hosting for relatively limited personal use?
I don't know about free, but Dreamhost is very affordable. I've been with them for over a decade.
How many beautifully crafted, wise and insightful FB posts have I made over the years that are now unreachable? But seriously, it's sad to think that I've consigned stuff to social media platforms just so it could sink without a trace. tom-mcgee.com was started in 2006 and originally was a hand-coded HTML and CSS site. I soon moved it into WordPress to keep it simple.
I need to be posting there more instead of getting distracted by Threads and BlueSky.
Shout out to all the OG lastname.com bloggers despite long gaps in service. We here at McCorkindale.com salute you.
After 20+ years, I still do not know who registered kottke.com before i got to it and why they have never done anything with it.
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