My broad goal is to stay excited. Keep the interest up, keep adding things, play around, have fun. Projects often turn to chores for me and I want to stave that off as long as I can.
I feel you on that one! I want to preserve the novelty of doing small web stuff as much as I possibly can. And I want to avoid taking it too seriously. This conflicts a bit with my desire to have a "polished"-looking site (or even just a site that looks like I know what tf I'm doing); even as I'm trying to let my site be silly and imperfect, I want it to look "cool" xD It's a battle.
I'm a professional web developer and many of us feel serious fatigue with the amount of stuff the sites we maintain are build from: dynamic frameworks, applications with complex life-cycles, advertisement systems, layers upon layers of tracking. To make something that's just a few paragraphs and links is incredibly refreshing.
Oh my god, yes. I love that about small web site-building, too. Originally when I set out to make a personal fanworks archive, I thought that I would host it on WordPress so that I could archive without worrying about the look or code. I installed WP and looked at the dozens of files on my web host and thought, "...I have no idea what any of these are for." And the idea of not understanding my own site made me sad. So, I deleted it all and made a static HTML site instead \o/
My first encounter with something that could be labeled Small Web was through tildes (sorry for the Medium.com link, the article is worth it).
Oh, that sounds very fun! And from 2014, too! Is tilde.club still going today?
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Date: 2024-09-03 03:24 am (UTC)I feel you on that one! I want to preserve the novelty of doing small web stuff as much as I possibly can. And I want to avoid taking it too seriously. This conflicts a bit with my desire to have a "polished"-looking site (or even just a site that looks like I know what tf I'm doing); even as I'm trying to let my site be silly and imperfect, I want it to look "cool" xD It's a battle.
Oh my god, yes. I love that about small web site-building, too. Originally when I set out to make a personal fanworks archive, I thought that I would host it on WordPress so that I could archive without worrying about the look or code. I installed WP and looked at the dozens of files on my web host and thought, "...I have no idea what any of these are for." And the idea of not understanding my own site made me sad. So, I deleted it all and made a static HTML site instead \o/
Oh, that sounds very fun! And from 2014, too! Is tilde.club still going today?