⚒ HOW TO make a Web site ↹
| Process / Problem |
My Advice |
The Method |
Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getting a domain | ...godaddy... | Optional step since
Neocities can already host your site as
"<yourname>.neocities.org," but I like my
custom domain personally. I hear a lot of shit spoke
about GoDaddy in particular, maybe I've lucked out
with my cheap niche domain name, but your mileage
will vary so shop around!! its just, i've got mine
you know, so... Conveniently for me, Apple iCloud+
lets you make a custom email using a domain of your
own- i love having noah@noahmarino.nl,
so, if that makes your mind up at all... E-mail me
for help/whatever BTW |
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| Getting online |
Neocities |
The yellow brick road
for all the New Netizenry... noahmarino.nl has
always exclusively been hosted via Neocities, it is
a friend to all, so accessible, FREE, accept no
alternative imo. If you're already HTML savvy you
could code all your pages from scratch, otherwise...
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| Constructing your site |
SeaMonkey |
Free, open-source internet suite from 2006 with all the tools I need to maintain my Web site. Access the web editor by pressing Ctrl+E (or Cmd+E) and work away. There's some depth to it- familiarize yourself with the Layer tool to move elements around more freely eg. When you're done making a page, copy-paste the <HTML> source code into the respective .html file on your Neocities dashboard-- keep in mind that any images used will also need to be uploaded to your Neocities dashboard, and properly pointed within the code, thusly... | (1) |
| Choosing colors |
Venngage, Randoma11y |
Accessible color
palette generators- gets you some nice colors not
too garish or eye-sore-ing |
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| Gathering GIFs |
GifCities |
From the brilliant
Internet Archive, GifCities catalogues 4 million
+(!) animated GIFs from GeoCities, a webhosting
titan of early internet notoriety. Google images
also works great |
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| Editing GIFs |
Ezgif.com |
thanks Latvia!!!
Ezgif.com lets you mess with GIFs any which way:
crop, optimize, change speed, add effects, make
colorful, etc. |
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I AM A SITE-MAKING NOVICE! don't take
anything here as best practice-- even if all you want is
a bullshitty sort of space like mine. there are many
eggs to cook with and many omelette/sunnysides/general
outcomes to heed to, "do your own research!," but also
I'm fond of my process so i'll let you in on it...
notably, my site does not consider mobile users
really, because fuck them, right, but if you care more
about that kind of thing you may need to chart your own
course here, or get verry smart here, smarter than ive been,
definitely..