the art of creating website(s), webpages, what have you believe it or not once used to be fun + creatively highly therapeutic. until the super nerds got a hold of it and corrupted it, turning it into an IQ contest. the early web wasn’t in fact constructed by nerds but by designers who pushed the envelope and paved the way. not all of us got it right, and we’d come up with some crazy, funky, fun, bad ass, kookie, wtf is that constructs. it was a beautiful, hot mess indeed. one didn’t belabor about every conceivable gaping flaw or process of going about it. gone are those days.

in those times there was an expectancy not only to encourage others towards the goal of self expression, but actually helping them along with actual resources. nowadays there’s no shortage of available resources. back then? We had to literally view the source code of others masterpieces and study their code. trying to figure out how tf this was conceived of and snatching bits to see if they fit together lolz. anyways I’m running out of words now so enjoy this collection I managed to string together during my lunch hour on taco tuesday.

here’s a laundry list of stuff. hopefully some of it might prove useful. if not? well there are other sites out there that can.

apps
visual studio code: this has become the de facto code editor of late.
light table: another good, clean minimalist one.
komodo edit: yet another, I don’t use this anymore but it’s still quite good considering it’s free.
atom: by GitHub, not half bad.
brackets: Adobe’s editor. I hate Adobe save for a few of their apps. But yeah, they’re a bunch of soulless, greedy corporate fucks.
dreamweaver: Adobe’s aging dinosaur, still clinging to life support. It’s the modern-day Microsoft FrontPage. It would have been nice if Adobe merged it with Adobe Muse somehow, but that never went down.
adobe muse: an abandoned orphan of Adobe, which means it’s actually pretty good heh heh. See, if Adobe made an excellent product, it wouldn’t actually generate them much revenue. It’s a great way to visually design websites + pages without touching code much.

 

hosting

you need a space to actually host your website at. once this used to be plentiful. nowadays its a money making industry obviously. here’s a few options I’d suggest. trust me, I’m a DJ.
neocities: a community as well as a hosting platform. They offer a substantial webspace for you to get your creation up and running.

tilde: like Neocities, only with crappier websites/pages.

Sdf.org: like Tilde, but even crappier ones. Looks like an abandoned graveyard of incompleteness. However, I’ve been here for some time—fun retro computing adventures abound.

cloudflare pages: free static site hosting via Cloudflare’s CDN, great for JAMstack setups.

github pages: free static site hosting via GitHub. Might be a bit over the top for noobs.

freehostia: an offering by a Chicago-based data center that gives a generous free tier package, with database + PHP capabilities.

infinityfree: completely free hosting with PHP and MySQL, though backend ads exist.

byethost: free web hosting with cPanel, subdomains, and FTP access.

ctrl-c club: free shell accounts with web hosting for those who enjoy the command line.

awardspace: free hosting with PHP, MySQL, and no forced ads.