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“What is a personal website even FOR?“
When making a personal website for the first time, you may ask yourself this!
The answer is: fucking anything. Personal websites don’t have to be “presentable” if they’re not tied to your IRL identity or whatever. Look at old captures of geocities, tripod, angelfire sites. You had dedicated single-topic sites, sure, but you also had sites that were arbitrary, slapdash little hoards of the website owner’s Favorite Things, no matter how unrelated they were.
Some suggestions:
links to your 3 favorite other websites.
an essay about how cool hydraulic engines are
a sanctuary for all your favorite images, such as memes, that you’ve collected over the years
facts about centipedes you think everyone should know
competitive hardcore sims 2 speedrunning strategies
a portfolio of your artwork, or links to other people’s artwork you enjoy
elaborate lies and hoaxes (maybe even a whole arg)
useful survival tips specific to where you come from (personal recipes, trustworthy doctors, good music venues, eats that are both good and affordable, hot goss on who’s up to what horseshit on your city council/school board/university faculty/whatever)
original fiction that noone on social media cares about because people only like and reblog about what they already know. explain your entire fictional country that you wanna put in a real novel one day.
making people not have to dig through your tags to know where to find all your dracula meta (including the shipping manifesto you wrote 10 years ago)
speaking of fandom, you know that one piece of media you love that nobody else seems to have heard of? you post into the void and nobody reblogs or likes? nothing in the tags? Yea. Built a shrine to that explaining why EVERYONE should care about it. tell me how that pirated copy of Telefang made you the human being you are today
explaining your personal philosophies on life without worrying that you will get reblogged by randos calling you cringe
just generally being fucking a weird, unrelatable, unmarketable, extremely specific ass human being
My old person trait is that I think a website should work in a web browser and not try to open an app