Personal websites are attracting attention again as people rediscover the value of owning a domain, controlling their work, and building an Internet outside...
    • Allero@lemmy.todayEnglish
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      9 hours ago

      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.

    • chunes@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      5 hours ago

      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.

  • DeckPacker@piefed.socialEnglish
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    18 hours ago

    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.worldEnglish
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      12 hours ago

      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).

  • humanspiral@lemmy.caEnglish
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    20 hours ago

    For a while, the personal website looked like a leftover from an earlier Internet.

    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.worldEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      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.

      • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        9 hours ago

        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…

  • jj4211@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    22 hours ago

    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.netEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      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.

    • katze@lemmy.4d2.orgEnglish
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      10 hours ago

      Most personal blogs I stumble upon are written by people who actually have not much to say. The post timeline usually is like:

      1. I have started blogging
      2. <something about Linux>
      3. Why I moved this blog to Hugo

      <months of nothing>

      1. I now microblog
      2. <some “micro” post about Linux>

      <months of nothing>

      1. Microblogging is just regular blogging
      2. 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.

    • GrackleBirb@lemmy.caEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      “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.caEnglish
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        12 hours ago

        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.caEnglish
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          8 hours ago

          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.

  • EmilieEasie@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    I started a blogger not too long ago, but I’m finding blogger kind of limiting and might shift back to wordpress.

  • justlemmyin@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    23 hours ago

    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.

  • sonstwas@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day 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

    • boraginoru@lemmy.zipEnglish
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      20 hours ago

      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.zoneEnglish
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      22 hours ago

      I just paid for bear blog because it’s a small open source project guy who runs it has values I agree with.

    • palordrolap@fedia.io
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      1 day ago

      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.

      • perishthethought@piefed.socialEnglish
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        23 hours ago

        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!

  • atomicbocks@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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 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.

  • darklamer@feddit.orgEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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.)

      • darklamer@feddit.orgEnglish
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        24 hours ago

        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.)

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)@slrpnk.netEnglish
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        17 hours ago

        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!

        • 🌞 Alexander Daychilde 🌞@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          16 hours ago

          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. :)

  • rozodru@piefed.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    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.