At 12/25/24 12:59 PM, Jasonbunny wrote:

At 12/24/24 07:19 PM, LegitChip wrote:Hey! I've been spending the day messing around with HTML and experimenting with blogging, and it made me realize how cool it would be to have a personal website of my own. I sometimes see users on here with personal websites on their page, and I love checking them out when I see them linked.

Share your website here, I want ideas (and you're really cool if you have one)!

Also how much does it generally cost to run one? I haven't done much research into server providers and stuff.

I have a website which pretty much mostly has flash stuff on it I made
http://jasonbunny.neocities.org
for some reason I also made mirrors of my page on other areas aswell including angelfire lol but yea
i guess just maybe try to make a style unique to ur site or something like dat like what I attempted to do with mines

At 12/25/24 03:01 PM, TheJayJay wrote:

At 12/24/24 07:19 PM, LegitChip wrote:Hey! I've been spending the day messing around with HTML and experimenting with blogging, and it made me realize how cool it would be to have a personal website of my own. I sometimes see users on here with personal websites on their page, and I love checking them out when I see them linked.

Share your website here, I want ideas (and you're really cool if you have one)!

https://jaypedia.xyz/ is my personal website. Coded entirely from scratch by me using plain HTML and CSS.

Also how much does it generally cost to run one? I haven't done much research into server providers and stuff.

I paid about £2 for the domain name, and renewing it each year costs me about £8. The registrar service I use is Epik, I had heard it was good at the time when I bought the domain and it was only a year later I discovered that they have ties to the alt-right :(

I host my website using Netlify. Usually you have to pay for web hosting but Netlify has a very generous free tier which gives you something like 100GB of bandwidth per month. I think if you need to host more than 1 website or you need more bandwidth then you need to pay for one of their higher-tier services, but I'm happy to do that if I need to, I had very little trouble getting my website setup and updating is literally just a drag-and-drop process.

That's what I use, I like my website a lot and I'm very proud of the fact that I built it myself. I have had some basic experience with dynamic-site builders like WordPress and Squarespace, but if you just want to have a basic website just to write your own things on than you don't need a dynamic website like the ones those builders produce, a static site will be easier to maintain and much more efficient for the user as it will load on just about any device very quickly.

(For further reading on the above topic, check out this, this and then this)

I've also heard good things about Neocities, but I've never used it myself so I can't tell how good or bad it is.

At 12/25/24 11:30 PM, thepixelizer wrote:Yeah I got a neocities site it's fairly new.
https://thepixelizer.neocities.org/
It's got an interactive art gallery, character bios, videos, fan art, some comics, world lore, and links to my socials. I went to w3schools.com to learn all of the html, css, and javascript coding. They make it fun and easy to learn with they're mini tutorials.
Don't be intimidated html it's a bare bones and a simple cave man language and is super easy to pick up and get right. You don't even have to do any maths.

I pretty much have everything I planned on having on there but I want to add more in the future. I was thinking about an art blog, and maybe an interactive wiki.

At 12/25/24 11:38 PM, SlyBalto wrote:

At 12/25/24 06:59 AM, LegitChip wrote:

At 12/24/24 11:13 PM, SlyBalto wrote:Yes! I use Neocities.com for mine. I have a website for personal recommendations that I'd like to expand in the future, for now it's got a few music entries of albums, tracks, and playlists I love that may not be on others' radars: https://slybalto.neocities.org/

This is a really cool idea, I sat on your webpage refreshing to see all the reccomendations... before I realized I could just go to the music page and see all of them. All the blinkies you're showing off are cool too!

Thanks so much for checking it out!! i can make it a bit more obvious that users can click on the left side navigation, maybe I could add an arrow that shows up on a first visit? I dunno, but I'll get some more feedback from some friends online/IRL!

At 12/26/24 08:41 PM, LegitChip wrote:

At 12/26/24 05:58 PM, M-kirbs wrote:I got a StrawPage if that's worth something https://m-kirbs.straw.page/

Oh my god, dude, I was doing an anonymous drawing for you on the website, WITH MY MOUSE, and it looked so good and i accidentally reset the page im going to go insane

At 12/27/24 06:16 AM, RosieUV wrote:I have a website on neocities but it's not finished getting updated so here's a video on the home page that I recorded earlier today for a bluesky post.
https://bsky.app/profile/rosieuv.neocities.org/post/3leasa3ro7k2d

I used to use website builders but I found them too limiting so I basically make them from scratch (kinda) now so I can do whatever I want and it's great. It's also good because neocities is free.

At 12/26/24 05:20 PM, LegitChip wrote:

At 12/25/24 11:38 PM, SlyBalto wrote:

At 12/25/24 06:59 AM, LegitChip wrote:

At 12/24/24 11:13 PM, SlyBalto wrote:Yes! I use Neocities.com for mine. I have a website for personal recommendations that I'd like to expand in the future, for now it's got a few music entries of albums, tracks, and playlists I love that may not be on others' radars: https://slybalto.neocities.org/

This is a really cool idea, I sat on your webpage refreshing to see all the reccomendations... before I realized I could just go to the music page and see all of them. All the blinkies you're showing off are cool too!

Thanks so much for checking it out!! i can make it a bit more obvious that users can click on the left side navigation, maybe I could add an arrow that shows up on a first visit? I dunno, but I'll get some more feedback from some friends online/IRL!

An arrow could work! I was also thinking you could just add a small background to the two tabs, so they stand out against the background and seem more interactable, that way people register them as buttons and not just text, which is what I thought at first.

At 12/24/24 07:19 PM, LegitChip wrote:Hey! I've been spending the day messing around with HTML and experimenting with blogging, and it made me realize how cool it would be to have a personal website of my own. I sometimes see users on here with personal websites on their page, and I love checking them out when I see them linked.

Share your website here, I want ideas (and you're really cool if you have one)!

Also how much does it generally cost to run one? I haven't done much research into server providers and stuff.

At 12/24/24 07:19 PM, LegitChip wrote:Hey! I've been spending the day messing around with HTML and experimenting with blogging, and it made me realize how cool it would be to have a personal website of my own. I sometimes see users on here with personal websites on their page, and I love checking them out when I see them linked.

Share your website here, I want ideas (and you're really cool if you have one)!

Also how much does it generally cost to run one? I haven't done much research into server providers and stuff.

At 12/27/24 04:26 PM, LegitChip wrote:

At 12/27/24 10:53 AM, BlakeTakesTheCake wrote:https://marshiscool.neocities.org/
I'm still working on it a LOT

It's a nice start though, the bottom right of the site says you are using a theme, are there preset Neocities themes that you can format your site by?

At 12/24/24 07:19 PM, LegitChip wrote:Hey! I've been spending the day messing around with HTML and experimenting with blogging, and it made me realize how cool it would be to have a personal website of my own. I sometimes see users on here with personal websites on their page, and I love checking them out when I see them linked.

Share your website here, I want ideas (and you're really cool if you have one)!

Also how much does it generally cost to run one? I haven't done much research into server providers and stuff.

At 12/28/24 12:18 PM, BlakeTakesTheCake wrote:

At 12/27/24 04:26 PM, LegitChip wrote:

At 12/27/24 10:53 AM, BlakeTakesTheCake wrote:https://marshiscool.neocities.org/
I'm still working on it a LOT

It's a nice start though, the bottom right of the site says you are using a theme, are there preset Neocities themes that you can format your site by?

neocities doesn't have themes built in. but if you look up "neocities themes" you'll find a lot of them. here's the theme i'm using. it's best to have a basic understanding of html and/or css so you can modify the theme.

At 12/28/24 07:18 PM, LegitChip wrote:

At 12/28/24 02:17 PM, Tlegendprox0x2 wrote:im working on one i have bought this of of fasthosts.co.uk but i need to figure out how to host it first, it's called dexerand.com & you can see it here here

It seems the website is down at the moment, unless you linked it incorrectly