<p>Some good reasons for starting a website, from <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@davatron5000" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>davatron5000</span></a></span>.</p><p><a href="https://daverupert.com/2025/09/why-would-anybody-start-a-website/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="daverupert.com/2025/09/why-would-anybody-start-a-website/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">daverupert.com/2025/09/why-wou</span><span class="invisible">ld-anybody-start-a-website/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a> <a href="/tags/personalwebsite/" rel="tag">#PersonalWebsite</a></p>
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<p>"What if we didn’t think of a website as one thing that answers to a million people? What if instead, there were millions of websites, each one handmade by a single person?"</p><p><a href="https://www.figma.com/blog/making-space-for-a-handmade-web/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="www.figma.com/blog/making-space-for-a-handmade-web/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">www.figma.com/blog/making-spac</span><span class="invisible">e-for-a-handmade-web/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a> <a href="/tags/personalwebsite/" rel="tag">#PersonalWebsite</a></p>
<p>Speaking of online communities, is your personal website part of a webring?</p><p><a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a> <a href="/tags/webring/" rel="tag">#webring</a> <a href="/tags/personalwebsite/" rel="tag">#PersonalWebsite</a> <a href="/tags/internet/" rel="tag">#internet</a> <a href="/tags/theweb/" rel="tag">#TheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/community/" rel="tag">#community</a></p>
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<p>If you've been thinking about setting up your own website, you should check out <a href="https://neocities.org" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>neocities.org</a> and <a href="https://glitch.com" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>glitch.com</a>, which will let you make one for free.</p><p>Not interested in diving into HTML and CSS quite yet?</p><p>Here's a little tool I made that can help!</p><p><a href="https://simplepagebuilder.app" rel="nofollow"><span class="invisible">https://</span>simplepagebuilder.app</a></p><p>And some more resources to get you started: <a href="https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stefanbohacek.com/blog/resources-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.com/blog/resourc</span><span class="invisible">es-for-keeping-the-web-free-open-and-poetic/</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/personalwebsite/" rel="tag">#PersonalWebsite</a> <a href="/tags/website/" rel="tag">#website</a> <a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a> <a href="/tags/html/" rel="tag">#html</a></p>
<p>Starting a new series of tutorials with <span class="h-card"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@glitchdotcom" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>glitchdotcom</span></a></span> and <span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@eleventy" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@<span>eleventy</span></a></span>.</p><p>First up: making a fediverse-ready image gallery to show off your artwork, photography, or perhaps your favorite protest art.</p><p><a href="https://stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-static-sites-on-glitch-image-gallery/" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-static-sites-on-glitch-image-gallery/"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">stefanbohacek.com/blog/making-</span><span class="invisible">static-sites-on-glitch-image-gallery/</span></a></p><p>More coming soon!</p><p><a href="/tags/personalwebsite/" rel="tag">#PersonalWebsite</a> <a href="/tags/websites/" rel="tag">#websites</a> <a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a> <a href="/tags/makewebsites/" rel="tag">#MakeWebsites</a> <a href="/tags/maketheweb/" rel="tag">#MakeTheWeb</a> <a href="/tags/madewithglitch/" rel="tag">#MadeWithGlitch</a></p>
<p>This is a nice list of blogging platforms that highlights free options. Now you really have no excuse not to give blogging a try!</p><p><a href="https://manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms" rel="nofollow" class="ellipsis" title="manuelmoreale.com/blog-platforms"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">manuelmoreale.com/blog-platfor</span><span class="invisible">ms</span></a></p><p><a href="/tags/blogging/" rel="tag">#blogging</a> <a href="/tags/blogs/" rel="tag">#blogs</a> <a href="/tags/personalwebsite/" rel="tag">#PersonalWebsite</a> <a href="/tags/websites/" rel="tag">#websites</a> <a href="/tags/indieweb/" rel="tag">#indieweb</a></p>