Quote from DedRoll on November 18, 2024, 2:31 am

Is making website in Carrd limited? By limited i mean the way you can add or make things there

Some people use Neocities and there's also Nekoweb. These the only 2 i know that have the capability to make website from the scratch so a lot of flexibility there on what you can do

Mine using  Neocities for hosting and using Brackets to write my code. Here's my website: https://dedroll.neocities.org/

Quote from Gildrom on November 18, 2024, 7:25 pm

I use GitHub Pages to host my site.
I write the HTML and CSS in a code editor and upload them to GitHub with Git.

For code editor, my choice is VSCodium. It is essentially the same as VSCode, but without all the Microsoft telemetry.

For learning HTML and CSS, I used the Odin Project, MDN, W3 (and lots and lots of YouTube tutorials).

This is a bit technical, but as I come from the Linux world, it suits me.

Quote from Kallias Dornan on November 20, 2024, 7:42 pm

Quote from Coyote on November 17, 2024, 11:56 pm

Hello! I hope this is the right place, if not I am sorry.

I am just wondering what everybody else has used for their website creation and what resources they may have to share?

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Attached below is a screenshot of my website which I am thinking is very bland compared to the beauty I see here..

Hey there! You are definitely in the right place!

First, I wouldn't say your website is bland at all! It's fun!

Secondly, I would argue that Carrd is rather limited in terms of making websites, as it only allows one page (iirc). I currently have four websites built and hosted on WordPress:

• https://da12thkind.com/
  • Main Website
• https://kallisjournal.wordpress.com/
  • Blog
• https://doormanstradingpost.wordpress.com/
  • Store Site
• https://kalliasdornan.art/
  • Portfolio

WordPress can be good for starting out, but I can't really recommend it in good faith anymore, as they have continued to restrict the amount of storage you can have on top of themes coming out that are hard to edit into what you want.

I'm currently in the process of making a website through NeoCities that's effectively an encyclopedia for my projects with some help from a friend.

NeoCities, I would argue, is the most bang-for-your-buck you can get with website hosting. The free plan is amazing, and for $5 a month you can get some more storage, plus custom domain, and some other cool stuff. You have to build your site from scratch, but I would argue that's a good thing, as you get to be fully in control of what you're doing.

Welcome to the world of web design and the StarSubculture community!

Quote from Fireye on November 20, 2024, 10:55 pm

I'm hosting mine (https://fireye.coffee) off Cloudflare pages which automatically pulls from my github repository, can deploy test sites off every branch, and link a production branch to my domain. You can pretty easily get the same feature for free (sans custom domain name) with github pages though. To edit, I'm using neovim, but I'd reccommend some form of VSCode for beginners. For either, there are plugins that allow you to host the website locally and update it whenever you make an edit.

I also have a few static site generation features using Jekyll, such as my blog. This allows me to write a blog post in markdown (a fancy plain text file format) then the tool converts it into html automatically. If you want to ignore actual coding as much as possible and just use this kind of tool exclusively, there are options like Hugo that allow you to write content in markdown files and still benefit from the numerous advantages of coding your site by hand.

For my backend, I'm using a cloudflare worker linked to a D1 SQL Database, also by cloudflare. These are both free up to a point (up to 100,000 requests/day on the worker and 5million reads/ 100,000 writes per day on the database) but I fall far below all of these limits and am able to use both without worrying about it at all.

Having the code on github also allows me to open source the site and allow people to use my code as they please and/ or improve it if they want to. (I'm a big proponent for free and open source software!) Hand coding might have a higher upfront time cost in that you have to learn to code, but it'll save you a lot of money in the long run, as you can essentially do anything you want to for minimal cost. (All I've paid for thus far is a domain name and if I want to expand my backend or if my site gets a lot more traffic I'll have to pay for a server).

Quote from Demogoorl on November 24, 2024, 1:13 pm

I'm new here, wanting some inspiration to do my websites, i have my portifolio on Caard but for me is very limitating, I'm currently working on learning code(html, css, js, python) to make my site and some gaames in the future, the site goes first hehe. Just wanted to interact jksdkfjs.

Quote from Bailey / Jay ⋆˚🐾˖° on December 25, 2024, 7:26 am

I made my site with HTML/CSS! I keep the code on Github, and I have my site hosted on both Netlify and Neocities (I moved from Netlify to Neocities but decided to keep the Netlify version to minimize links breaking). It took time, but with the help of w3schools, sadgrl.online, some youtube tutorials, and a lot of trial and error, it's gotten to a place I'm proud of! shameful self-promo but I made a mini-site to show some stuff I use to make my websites, it's here if you wanna see. I'd say learning HTML/CSS is worth the effort, since you can keep every page of your site, it's just a matter of where you put it up! but, I also know it's a lot of work :')

in terms of wysiwyg (what you see is what you get) website makers, carrd is VERY restrictive, especially on their free plan. A lot of people use WordPress, Squarespace, and WIX, but I've never tried them, and I'm under the impression some of them are sketchy? Idk. Anyways, my recommendation, especially if you want the sort of silly/creative vibe that a lot of personal sites have, would be straw.page! strictly speaking, it's aimed at mobile users, but you CAN put things outside of the margins to fill up the page so long as you keep in mind it's only visible on desktop ^^; it gives a lot more freedom than carrd, you can make multiple pages instead of just a single tabbed page, there's no coding required, and it even has a built-in way to receive anonymous messages and drawings! I don't use it for my main website, but I do have a site on there, and it's pretty fun to play around with 🙂