Website crafting

[BlazingCobaltX]

Very curious to see who else here has a personal website and/or has built a site before!

Building a website is a wonderful way to exercise personal creativity and build a space exactly as you want it. The only restriction is your own technical knowledge, which you can grow thanks to the many tutorials online. I have found it an incredibly satisfying endeavour to grow my website from a standard template to an archive of my life and the things I do.

If you have a site, link it! This is mine: https://blazingcobaltx.neocities.org/

If you got curious about making your own website, there's so many resources out there I don't even know what to point at first. I personally got my start off this Tumblr post: https://www.tumblr.com/agentromanoffsir ... d-your-own

[daydreamerdisease]

Thank you for sharing this!

I've been thinking about doing it, honestly, so I appreciate the opportunity to see what it entails nowadays compared to the past.

What do you think you've struggled with the most in setting up your site? I did some poking around, by the way! It was interesting to see the different page formats., especially the arrow drops for the movies/books/etc!

Sidenote from what I read: I agree about the debates 100000% and it sucks you've dealt with fibro. As someone with chronic fatigue and other things that also cause pain who has lost some ability the last few years, I'm still figuring out my needs and what will help without good doctors.

[BlazingCobaltX]

Thank you for sharing this!

I've been thinking about doing it, honestly, so I appreciate the opportunity to see what it entails nowadays compared to the past.

What do you think you've struggled with the most in setting up your site? I did some poking around, by the way! It was interesting to see the different page formats., especially the arrow drops for the movies/books/etc!

Sidenote from what I read: I agree about the debates 100000% and it sucks you've dealt with fibro. As someone with chronic fatigue and other things that also cause pain who has lost some ability the last few years, I'm still figuring out my needs and what will help without good doctors.

Glad to be of help!

I'd say the thing I struggled most with is when there's a clear gap between what I want and what I can do with my skill level. Sometimes it is a matter of setting an idea aside until you have enough knowledge to actually get it done. It's frustrating, but bashing your head on your keyboard because you don't understand the code is just as bad.

About the fibro: I have an old draft for a page where I explain what my treatment was like and what people could do at home to improve their pain and fatigue a little. You saying this motivates me to get it done ASAP! One thing I can already recommend is graded activity, which makes you build up fitness from a very low base level. I found it incredibly effective.

[daydreamerdisease]

Glad to be of help!

I'd say the thing I struggled most with is when there's a clear gap between what I want and what I can do with my skill level. Sometimes it is a matter of setting an idea aside until you have enough knowledge to actually get it done. It's frustrating, but bashing your head on your keyboard because you don't understand the code is just as bad.

About the fibro: I have an old draft for a page where I explain what my treatment was like and what people could do at home to improve their pain and fatigue a little. You saying this motivates me to get it done ASAP! One thing I can already recommend is graded activity, which makes you build up fitness from a very low base level. I found it incredibly effective.

That definitely sounds like a struggle, I can see why it would be difficult! It's sorta a combination of accepting limitations and needing to make time to learn (when of course we just want to know thing now) .

What do you enjoy the most about the website making?

Fibro: Glad I can motivate you to continue. That makes a lot of sense. Thanks for the advice! I think I've heard of graded activity in the past, briefly, but have never really looked into it. I'll check it out!

[Dolorisa]

Very curious to see who else here has a personal website and/or has built a site before!

Building a website is a wonderful way to exercise personal creativity and build a space exactly as you want it. The only restriction is your own technical knowledge, which you can grow thanks to the many tutorials online. I have found it an incredibly satisfying endeavour to grow my website from a standard template to an archive of my life and the things I do.

If you have a site, link it! This is mine: https://blazingcobaltx.neocities.org/

If you got curious about making your own website, there's so many resources out there I don't even know what to point at first. I personally got my start off this Tumblr post: https://www.tumblr.com/agentromanoffsir ... d-your-own

I want to make a blog like this but I am too dumb to do it. Is the technical knowledge really demanding? I am inept when it comes to development. Perhaps I should start with a base template and work on tiny alterations.

[BlazingCobaltX]

What do you enjoy the most about the website making?

Like many others, I turned to website creation after getting burnt out from social media. What I like is that you have an infinite amount of space to talk about whatever you want, in whatever structure you want. This total freedom is honestly very addicting.

I want to make a blog like this but I am too dumb to do it. Is the technical knowledge really demanding? I am inept when it comes to development. Perhaps I should start with a base template and work on tiny alterations.

If you want to simply have a blog with one theme then it is better to look at static site generators. There's many different options here and honestly I don't have enough experience with these to recommend you anything. But I think this fits more when you just want to focus on writing and less on coding each single page.

[daydreamerdisease]

Like many others, I turned to website creation after getting burnt out from social media. What I like is that you have an infinite amount of space to talk about whatever you want, in whatever structure you want. This total freedom is honestly very addicting.

Honestly, yeah, I can understand that! I miss being able to adjust and get creative with layouts. Honestly, I was still attempting to do it with tumblr and things until it just became unfeasible for me to shove code at it properly. Even just looking at what others have done and playing with it can be so fun compared to stale socials pushed on us.

[onetrueking]

I don't make them now (not enough time and inclination. Between making sites and writing, I know what I wanna do in my free time), but I used to make websites back when I was a lot younger (like 20 years ago lmao). This was back in the geocities and angelfire days (look, I'm really that old), and I bought my own domain when I was like 19, because I didn't like the stupid long-ass addresses geocities gave me.

For the site design itself, I was studying back then to be a graphics artist (ultimately abandoned in favor of business management, because I like money), and had a massively over-designed page (listen, if you're gonna pay for your website anyway, might as well make it absurdly fucking fancy). It used layers and layers of CSS, inline frames, table-structured graphics so anyone on dial-up didn't have to wait forever for the graphics to load... the full works. I used it as a dumping ground for my fanfics back in the days when AO3 wasn't even a dream yet, and FFNET was still gestating.

But also, I cheated a lot in coding, because I had Adobe InDesign (which at the time, was one of the better wysiwyg website/web page design software). I can probably still code pretty advanced html and css now, but why does anyone bother to? There's an app for that.