Hi folks, I’m so dang tired of the internet as it currently is. The idea of a small web, personal websites, returning to what the internet was intended to be sounds incredibly exciting to me and I’d like to invest in that… but I don’t really know where to start? So much of what I read seems to have a ton of coding jargon. I clicked on Small Web 101 and it was a masterlist of somewhat confusing links.

The most coding I’ve done was on Khan Academy as a teenager or setting up an automatic macro to run the coliseum for me in Flight Rising. I pirate basically everything I watch but I’ve only torrented one or two things and don’t really grasp how that works. I don’t really know anything about my laptop but I have a vague idea that I should switch to Linux and I replaced the screen once.

What’s step one for a wannabe Small Web enthusiast?

  • lurch (he/him)@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    8·
    28 days ago

    You can create static HTML-Websites/-Documents on your PC and view them in your browser. You can then add features using CSS or JS.

    Then, you can use a VM and install a webserver in it. You can use it to simulate and practice server side scripting, for example with PHP. You can also try out open source software in it, for example blog software.

    Then, when you have something to publish, you can rent webspace. Nowadays SSL is important. You need to figure out how to get a certificate installed at your hoster.

    IMPORTANT: Do NOT rent a root server, because you will be responsible for keeping the whole OS updated and secure. Something that fails often. Use a managed option, so you’re just responsible for your web apps.

    • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net
      2·
      28 days ago

      Do you know any good tutorials for building a simple web page that includes CSS styles and a really simple js component? In school we were taught to build straight html web pages but I have no clue how to use css instead of in-line style tags. Been messing around with a neocities page somewhat unsuccessfully.