I suck at coding, but your last video inspired me to start learning how to make a website! I really want to post my art online, but I don’t know which platform to post in because they all have their flaws. You’re an angel for suggesting this idea so thank you so much ❤️❤️
website platform sites have their censorship standards too, often far more restrictive than social media platforms, the only way someone could freely express themselves on the internet is through coding. At the risk of getting political, but only provided project 2025 isn't successful since the agenda behind it is to make everything in America officially totalitarian (and yes, they plan to end free speech on the net too). Technically the U.S. isn't a free country, it is a country where the only ones who are given rights are the rich, the corporate elites, etc, the country provides liberties but with those in power expecting you (the poor class) to abide by how they want you to use your "promised liberties." Those aren't treated as rights, those are privileges in an in denial police state that pretends they're free and prosperous. In the U.S. it is illegal to be poor and if you're rich, especially if you have enough fame, you essentially have cart blanche to break all the rules in the book.
I started to build my own website bc I wanted a place to basically show my creativity and stories without the rules of other places. I recommend for people to try to use plain html and css. Its gonna be hard to try to build from scratch but I recommend its worth it!
I've been thinking of picking up html again after watching this video and Luvstar's previous one and this comment was like a finding a penny head's side up, lol I can't wait for more fun and personal websites to start sprouting again tbh, because seeing everyone here beginning to put a little bit of their love and soul into this revival makes me so excited! Even if I can't make my own website now, I hope I can see everyone else's soon! ٩(๑`∇´๑)۶
I have been working on my html site for a while but I think I should try using an editor maybe because this is hard (and that comes from someone who already has a little experience with coding)
@@FireJojoBoy Nothing wrong with using a CMS, but you will be a bit more limited. It's all a trade-off between time/effort vs flexibility. With enough time and effort you can combine HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to make your website look and function just about any way you can imagine and you can leverage the knowledge you gain into career opportunities. On the other hand, if you just want a website to be your own personal homepage for showing off your art or blogging and you don't mind giving up some flexibility, a CMS might be perfect for you. I personally think HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are really cool tools to show off your creativity, but if your goals are nontechnical and those tools are keeping you from reaching your goal of just getting your website out there, then they're not serving their purpose.
@@HedgeFlounder hm yeah. I decided I actually wanna learn coding now. I'm not gooa at it but I guess no one is when they start out. My website is probably going to be a little more... quirky anyway haha
Nowadays ChatGPT can be a huge help. It can give you the html and css for a simple website of your description and it works pretty well. Of course, you should still learn the basics because otherwise it's going to be hard to understand what's happening in the code.
The internet as it exists right now is not the internet as the concept that was invented The whole point was to have a sea of websites for people to explore, not 3 main megacorpo platforms that regurgitate from one another. YT, twitter, instagram, tiktok are only products. I think and hope it only makes sense that there'll be an indie web boom this decade. I want weird websites created by individuals and communities with unique styles and lots of personalization, I want the internet that was supposed to be when it started out as a public technological infrastructure deemed not profitable by the private sector, not the mainstream hellpit everyone's thrown into for a multibillion dollar supercomputer algorithm to scan your soul and determine that if they show a specific ad at 3:45am it'll hit you at the precise moment of a personal crisis for you to be 1.3% more likely to fill that hole with consumerism. Love this channel and all the new content I've been seeing about independent websites, the idea of a place within your website where you link to other ones you like is awesome and literally a community sustained web Can't wait to make my own some day
agree, kind of miss that 90s early 2000 web space. that's why i love vrchat in VR due to this exact reason, there are so many user generated wacky but wonderful world created by community to admire
I use Neocities (had mine up for about 10 months now) and yeah the control is just about 100% there except for music and limited file storage ....... BUT I host all of my files on catbox which keeps the size of my site down and lets me make it infinitely bigger; and I've embedded an mp3 player with my favorite music. I dont own a traditional domain because of money, but I think neocities is the next best thing (if you can code it, it can be done) ... Thinkin about making a second neocities page after seeing your website recently honestly LOL; you've got an awesome layout going on. ❤❤
I definitely wanna mke a neocities website but I sdly don't know how to code and there isn't much UA-cam tutorials sadly. Because other neocities websites look so cool!
@@JE.600 What do you mean not much tutorials? theres loads of html and css courses/tutorials on youtube, the basics can be learnt in an hour. There are even templates available if you struggle with setting everything up (like eggramen neocities, sadgrl website builder or codesharing neocities) and lots of effects can be also found online and just copy and pasted (like the ones from dynamic drive)
ever since i found out about neocities ive been OBSESSED with the idea of making my own little corner of the web, and even learning how to code has been personally very fun (although frustrating as well aaaaa)! Its honestly so cool to lose your mind trying to understand how any of this works and then one day just figuring it out and actually creating something from a few lines of text, its like a whole nother art form or art medium in and of itself! Its like building your own little room in the digital world from the ground up, making things appear from thin air, and it genuinely feels so similar to drawing, its like drawing but with text! Its also so important to not let yourself get carried away by perfectionism because as 32:51 said, give the big corpos a big fuck you and just make the craziest, ugliest, downright disgustingly visually assaulting website ever if you want (just make sure to include a static and blander colored version for people with sensory issues or include a visual warning before you enter the main site!) with as many buttons and menus and gifs as humanly possible because why not?? its your website! It adds to the exploration and discovery aspect lmao. I would rather get a stroke trying to find the artists shop or commissions info like a fuckin tresure hunt where i have to solve goblin riddles and play a minigame to enter a specific section than click on a link and see a powerpoint slides ahh cookie-cutter corporatized website where everything is optimized specifically to take me to the shop section as easily as possible (artistic intent vs. commercial intent). Id say just treat it as if youre trying to decorate your sketchbook cover with stickers, dont overthink it, go for a "vibe" and not a "look", and fill the insides with things you love and care about! Make something big corpos would never even think about!
LOVE this. the way you described a hypothetical artist's commission page treasure hunt is HILARIOUS XDDD and the analogy of a website being a sketchbook decorated with stickers is SO CUTE!! 💜screw corpos, support artists!!! 💜
I'm not all the way through watching but I suggest doing a video discussing RSS feeds. This is a protocol that lets users who run "feed reader" apps do follows/subscribes to your web site, just like how they work on centralized social media: the apps will automatically check in to see if the feed has changed, and notify the user. Today it's mostly used by professionals who are trying to follow news and industry developments, but it also works great for webcomics and anything else you might need periodic announcements for. Blogging and CMS software like Wordpress often builds in the stuff needed to generate the feed, but like with HTML, it can be authored by hand if you're really motivated.
What's good about sites that you've coded yourself is that if the place you've uploaded your site ever does go down... who cares! As long as you have a downloaded copy of your site, you can just reupload the whole thing somewhere else. If you have your own domain name, you can use that domain name on the new host, and people visiting your site won't even know it went down.
you can make backups when using a CMS. a CMS will also make it significantly easier to update content on a website, and to make changes across the whole site.
@horsescary I don't personally like how restrictive CMS is or how uniform it makes your site, but if it works for you, by all means you do you!! As long as people are getting their own sites up :)
@@AtelierAni I haven't messed with wordpress personally, but from the docs it seems relatively simple to write all the html/css for a theme yourself. I've found blogs and such running off of static webpages to be really annoying to maintain, as its much more difficult to do things programmatically; its more difficult to manage content without a content management system. (and it means that I have to write javascript)
@horsescary I just do literally everything in html and css 😆 uniform themesand everything being commodified as content is exactly what I'm trying to get away from with my own site!! A cms is great if you're running a blog or a site where info/articles is the focus, but it's restrictive if you want to have fun with the design or are just running a little personal site. For me, having a personal site isn't about "content", it's a personal and artistic expression 😊
I got SO excited by your last video! I've had my website for ages, but it's been only since the recent few years that I started updating it a LOT. After watching your previous video, I felt extremely motivated. I got SO many ideas for blog posts and art that I want to make! I also really want to try and get that 'old internet spark' back, so I'm even more excited to see you inspired so many people to also make a website! I'll be happy to contribute to exciting people all around the world to make their own website. I want to see those old networks get back to life, people linking to one another and stuff. Visiting webpages with a soul.
The displacement caused by AI is temporary. Things always balance themselves out. I could be wrong, but I think the displacement is caused by two main factors: - some jobs are formulaic and patternized - the hype is way overblown and there are a lot of liars On the first point, some jobs are easy to replace by AI or even non-AI programs, because they are just made of patterns. Patterns are the easiest thing to automate. I stumbled on a video recently of a guy saying he was replaced by AI, but two things stood out to me: 1) his work was just about all made from templates, and 2) template sped up his work flow, but he never told his employer about it. He did website layouts or something. I forgot. But he was replaced because, not only was his work made of easily automatable patterns, he was also misleading his boss into thinking he took way longer to get the job done than the AI did. Maybe if he hadn't done that, it might've played out differently. I think this is one good example of why we ought to be a bit skeptical of people complaining about loosing jobs to AI. All throughout history, automation always created more jobs than it took. We've been automating things for centuries, and there's only ever been an ever growing amount of jobs (especially considering how dramatically the world's population has also grown alongside that). On the second point, the overblown hype is leading a disproportional amount of people to AI. Eventually most people will have been disenchanted and things will simmer down. I'm a programmer, I don't work on AI, but I have a decent understanding of how LLMs and generative-AI works. I've been paying quite some attention to this from the programming perspective, and while there have been some people trying to make-believe that AI has improved their workflow tenfold or more, in reality most people have not been having that experience. For small code snippets, sure, AI can be great. But that's about it. The channel NeetCodeIO has made a video titled "Why is everyone lying?" that demonstrates perfectly how much of a waste of time AI can be. (No need know programming, his demonstration should be glaringly obvious to anyone). It's worth a watch, imo, for anyone who wants to see how much failure AI can yield. Ultimately AI is a tool, not an artist, not a programmer, etc. It can be used for inspiration, for some kind of assistance, but it can't generate what we need or what our customers need. It doesn't have -- and it can't have -- any understanding of context, or of the nuances of your customers' requests, etc. There's actually a whole lot that AI cannot possibly ever do. It also makes tons of mistakes and it takes quite some time to guide it to yield anything decent. An experienced artist might just get the job done faster, and better. :)
I'm pretty sure the person who just got replaced by AI is a UI/UX Designer. I know because I am one. Though I never use templates, but I often use free assets like illustrations and icons on my designs. Another thing to point out is that I'm lucky that my boss is somewhat against AI. However, I do think designing websites uses a lot of patterns and more objective than art. Compared to both programming and art, it doesn't take any special skill or talent to design a website, unless you create arts to be used ON the website. Ultimately, I do believe the ONLY thing that will never be replaced by AI is art. And artists should not be worried imo.
@@Kalitayy that may have been it, yea. I've found the video: it's by Nadestraight, titled "I Lost My Job Because of AI". He also made a follow up video. To be fair, he striked me as quite down to earth and honest, not whiny or doom&gloomy or anything. Just plain talking about what happened.
I'm only just getting started learning front end development but I gotta say, HTML is far easier to understand than I ever expected. There are tons of really great resources everywhere for learning it, and alot of help for when you get stuck. It'll be a journey but I'm happy to have started it!
Totally agree on having ownership of your website. Next step is having your own way to reach people that care about your work, which is basically a newsletter, a list of e-mails you can reach from your domain. Have a way for people to sign-up as soon as possible.
Thank you for this second video regarding the topic of website-ownership being part of the future of digital-art-content-creation, Kei 🙌 It is a great inspiration 🍃 ~ [sorry if the following is too-texty, just felt correct to share it here]: I'm a striving manga/comic artist from SouthAmerica, who doesn't seem to find the appropriate niche among my real-life contemporaries. So a few years I first made a blog for my comic/manga, and made the content available in Spanish and English. Of course, even if not much, the main number of visitors to my 'now' website, are Spanish-speaking. I have the hopes of sooner than later get my 'cólicbrook' (that's the word I 'invented' to refer to my comic/manga) seen by wordly-speaking people of many different places, and that gets me happy and motivated to keep making it better to visit. Sorry again, since I'm not sharing right at the get-go my site [which I lovingly refer to as my "web-cuento"🌟] in your comments, and that is because first I would like to finish-up making it look comfier, and then I'll share it around, since I know I'll be watching your future content, being website-related or nope~🌠 (but when I do 👁 I'll make sure to have your site as a personal recommendation, as you taught here) So thanks for that! ☀ 'Till another video~🐺🌻
I didn't know how much I missed just watching someone in front of the camera, opening heartfelt discussions with their community untill I saw this video. You're so refreshing and a star for motivating all these wonderful people down here in the comments to be creative. Great video!
同同. A year of reading abstract stuff and getting multiple terms for same things (CMS, web app; host, server…) and The Cake takes the cake🎉 It's review for me now, but, reinforcement- after this vid it's easier for me to recall the concepts, to hold them in mind while I do the creative work with them. And the cherry can be eaten (yummy) and another placed on top; can cause problems, patch-up work, I hear, but basically you can switch out themes and keep all/most of your blog articles, backgrounds, menus.
your video is inspiring me to get back into making content for my dumb website... I think my goal is to have an infinite number of pages eventually, each filled with strange and random ideas, thoughts, and content... I don't know what I'm doing and that's great!
if you embed a livestream on your website with a chatbox you can give a big incentive for people to use your website as well. just do the livestream on some random website, disable the websites chat, and embed it on your own site and just advertise that you're streaming on ur site. plenty of websites that you can do livestreams from too that wont throw ads on your streams like Dlive, definitely dont wanna use twitch lol nothing but ads.
Theres always wordpress and hosting it on your own hardware rather than wix or amazon and all that other crap... i personally have a nas and well i store alot on it so theres that, its also not that hard to have some old laptop or desktop you dont use anymore (some random dell optiplex back from 2010 should be more than enough)
thats true!! i was going to mention that as an alternative but i thought it wouldnt be too common of a solution for a beginner. but if you have the hardware for it, definitely :o
i also wasnt around for the early internet but i heard a bit about how fun it was and i want to maybe be a apart of that some day. i dont know exactly what i would make a website for yet even though im an artist too, but i think maybe ill get around to it. i mostly main twitter but its been tangibly falling apart so the idea of setting up my own tiny digital throneworld is really nice. and im also really into the idea of linking other people's too. i do actually like being social on social media and it would be a shame if twitter of all things got in the way of that :)
Re: link to each other I dunno if it's necessary to explain buuuut... Back in the before times there was a concept called a webring. Everyone in a group or network would link to one or more sites from their own and theoretically make a "ring". usually there was a hub site that listed all the sites out. Usually there wasn't much search-ability. You had to kind of manually browse, but you would find cool stuff. There were many issues with them, but i've be thinking about how to revive and modernize them recently. Because just having links and making a bigger space with similar sites would make having a website more interesting and probably more appealing.
I really love your website!! You make me wanna make my own little corner for my hobbies and funsies. Anyone else scared about what to show on your pages? Because i am
Fantastic illustrations, discussion! Thanks!!! You describe the core purpose of the internet- it's not only curated friends, like an exhibit of humans in a socmed corpo display case.* Also, I think your point on bottom line is domain ($20~/year) and free hosting with some hassle somewhere? (find the function to download your content once a [period] for backup); goes up in price about $20-50 increments for more (>$300 increments for high function). *that also exists and is great for what it is; maybe media algorithms just amplify cynacism and meanness for their natural infectiousness. It brought your vid to my feed-trough😂 though😊
If you're not happy anymore with the old domain, there's a trick you can do to avoid the pain of renaming every link leading to your website. You can make a permanent redirection to the new domain. Google will understand where your website now is based on the redirection, and all the old links will still work. The only downside is that you will have to pay for the old domain for as long as you want to support the old links.
I understand the desire to want a domain and hosting for free, especially if you're young, either too young to have a job or you have a job that just doesn't pay well enough that you can spare money for something as seemingly "frivolous" as a website. I've been there myself, and it sucks. Unfortunately, though, websites really do cost money: either you pay with money, or you pay with lack of control over the content, i.e. you get ads forced on to your site, or you get a big ugly corporate banner stuck at the top. And, just in case people are wondering *why* these things cost money: * Domains cost money because all the DNS servers around the world need to be maintained by someone, and they invest a lot of money into ensuring the web runs smoothly and into defending against bot nets and the like. * Hosting costs money because you're basically renting the use of someone's computer, ideally with the expectation that they'll take care of ensuring the server hardware (and possibly software, depending on what sort of hosting you have) is kept running. Add a big dollop of capitalism on top of that and here we are: things cost money :( edit: regarding the AI thing, I agree with you. People using AI to make art aren't artists, they're patrons commissioning "art" from an AI.
Remember the main drawback of starting a website is that there isn't generally any free traffic like you can get with social media. You can solve this problem by hooking up with other website owner and linking to each other.
I'm glad to see that others were just as inspired by your last video as I was. I've been having a blast with making my website and I'll def e-mail it to you when it's done. Even if it's not a good fit for you to showcase, I hope it's still cool. I sent your video to a super skilled artist friend of mine and she's also very motivated to get a website going which makes me so happy cause she's definitely someone whose work people need to be more aware of. 😤😤 I loved the cake and spider analogies. (im putting this at the bottom cause i didnt wanna feel like a leech but i gave an early tour of my website on my yt channel 😉)
19:35 links on your site: this was my plan from the start; haven't made it yet but always has been my intention to make a kind of 'site map' but for every other site I visited and have any interest in
Also, what you’re talking about at 20:00 or so is called a webring! Or, well, roughly in concept. I suppose if the loop of shared content isn’t closed it’s more like a webline, but still. It’s an old thing from ye olden days of Web 1.0!
A cool alternative to wordpress is file based content management, grav cms for example. Its less complex to run as a site on the internet since its just spits out regular html pages for you. And its easier to get started customising your css and html markup.
25:40 It's not being afraid of new technology at all. This argument is not at the core of the problem with generative AI, because it does not address the ethical implications of the technology's creation. It was built off the backs of people and artists whose work and information were scraped and used to train these models without their permission, being used to spit out low-quality forgeries of popular artist's styles, and so on. This technology has incredible potential for actually helpful applications, such as in medical and astronomical fields (detecting cancer well before human doctors can, or picking up on fascinating interstellar anomalies that scientists can't, for example). But right now, it's being used by large corporations to replace real people with soulless garbage, or in the case of search engines, feeding actually harmful misinformation to people who just want to answer simple questions.
Since i discovered Neocities a whole new world opened before my eyes, nowdays im busy with a job and other side responsibilities but your vids bring back the joy of making one, let's see if i can buy a domain someday ^_^
I am a 3d artist learning blender since the pandemic started before all the ai insanity started and it really bummed me out I was just short of my first 1k followers and now I hate instagram. Thanks a lot for the positive energy and the inspiration to get me started making a website. I was always afraid of these subscription services but if there is a free open source way that would be the next step for me and my small collective of artists and djs to get our own website
Thank you for making these videos! I'm an artist and you inspired me to do my own website. I don't have money for now so I might use the free alternatives you mentioned, hopefully one day I'll get my own domain, but in the meantime, when I'm done building it I might write you an email with the link ^^ ps: you give me vibes of a cool person, the way you address many opinions even if you don't fully agree with some makes me think you deserve to get back the good respect you give.
I've had a few different websites, just playing around with different designs, for 15 years. Now I have one that I don't really know what to do with. Mostly because it doesn't offer enough storage. I used to be able to have a lot of pictures on there, but Wix changed things. And now even the lowest monthly subscription cost would be too expensive, and still not enough storage. It's too much money for something only I and maybe 2 more people visit. So, I don't know if I should try another web builder, but that'd suck bc I've learnt and like this one. 🤔🙃
I've been debating on getting a website (years ago I started learning coding but it's very tedious.) for my buying and selling vintage, but I don't like having subscriptions and having to pay annually or monthly. :/ Another UA-camr uses Squarespace, and I even started creating a website with a free trial but can't do much in 2 weeks and now I have to pay if I want to see and use what I created.
would you recommend using neocities? idk if its any similar to what you described but is that a good place to start for free? im looking into website making but i dont really want to spend any money until im completely sure about it
To respond to the AI art discussion: virtual intelligence has a place. VI can detect cancerous cells YEARS before they become ever a problem, and can assess and predict patterns that we could never do, like, for example, weather patterns. Art is not in the list. It can't create nothing new and it spits out something from the will of a human from data banks that may or may not have been stolen. This is how today's virtual intelligence art works. It's not art, in my opinion, it's a nothing-burger. And, yes, I can agree on the fact that the technology behind it is very interesting and complex but nukes and guns and the psychology behind social media are also very complex and interesting, that doesn't mean that they aren't literally meant to, hurt people. This is not to say that I'm directly comparing AI art with nukes, guns and the addictive psychology of social medias, but their complexity and harm are equal in their engineering, although the scale of harm is different.
I used google sites for my website I am planning to redo the website in the future with Squarespace and buy a domain when I can (still in high-school so it's not my biggest priority) This video would have been sooooo helpful like 11 months ago when I made my other website but is still helpful now too (if that makes sense) Edit: I just finished watching the whole video and omg thanks you for reading my comment!
Hi I was on the web as a teen in the 90’s and you should just make funny websites that are things you share with your friends- then at some point decide to make a “real” website. You can make really excellent stuff with just html, don’t wait for some big moment.
@@gourdbox i actually started trying to learn html yesterday (cuz Google sites is a Google product so it'sonly a matter of time before that gets shut down)
This was so helpful omg, how are you not popular already 😭 anyways what age do you recommend would be the best for making a website? I’m a mostly young person and I’ve been stressed out on what to do :’)
hi guys i was thinking about starting a database on wikis with all the website links!! do let me know if yall are interested in something like this just to help with visibility.
wordpress and tumblr by themselves are not all that different - the difference is you can use wordpress to display content on your own website that you have full ownership over with a domain. on tumblr, your blog belongs to tumblr, and if they choose to shut down their website, your blog is also gone.
I just came across this video in my recommended and I could NOT be happier that other people are yearning to return to making their own sites too 😭 I first made my site back in 2021 and it was like the most fulfilling journey Ive started in terms of social media or internet-ing in general, its like youre quite literally carving out your own piece of the web :D also NEOCITIES FTW BEST FREE HOST IN THE GAME💥🤩💥🤩💥🤩🎉
Would you say having a square space site is considered your own site? I have one through square pace and purchased a domain through them and was wondering it that counts
This is actually pretty cool! To push this movement forward maybe there could be a hashtag..? I know that's kinda pandering to social media still, but if a lot of people started posting "I made my own personal website, so should you! #myownsite" or smt like that, it might get a few more eyes on this movement (especially if one of the posts blow up). p.s. Great vid :] I've made a few website designs just for fun but now I'm actually thinking about making my own domain
i recently learned about a movement from someone who reached out to me with their own website, its called #BeYourOwnPlatform and definitely fits within the theme of making your own personal websites!!
I think I wanna make a website also, but how are people gonna find it? It sort of just feels a distant island on the internet when it comes to art, you know what I mean?
I think ai is bad period. In every single way. I don't think it should ever be used and I am talking about generative ai. ai code, ai art, etc. I just find it disgusting.
Without ai, things like videogames wouldn't be able to work the way they do today. Ai can be a tool to make art with, but currently companies are using it the wrong way.
@@Crow-uo9ke Maybe learn to read a whole sentence before making an asinine comment. I'm talking about generative ai not video game ai. btw There are 0 good ethical uses for ai art. So you can go fool someone else with that ai art sympathizer speech.
I've been working on my own site for a while so I can have a dedicated place of my own for my portfolio and art/photography/film information. So far I've been designing it with Canva with no issues but I hope it stays that way! I'll send you an email when it goes live- have been using social media much less in the past months myself.
Btw usually domains ending in .me or .win are way cheaper. Here in Canada .ca tends to be way cheaper the NET COM or ORG too. A ca tends to be $20 a year and .me tends to be a few dollars a year.
Thanks for reading my comment. interactive tv. 😎 just wanted to say the algorithm sent me but i am interested in the topic. i used to do art but somewhere along the way my dream kinda fell asleep. maybe getting back into it through computerized stuff is the way to go. i am also interested in getting back to the old way the internet used to be but i think there might be too many people online now for it to work the same way any more. there was this really old protocol called bbs that was a thing a long time ago. it would be cool of people started to do that again i think. thats all i guess. hope to see some more of your videos in the future. also; minecraft is cool.
I suck at coding, but your last video inspired me to start learning how to make a website! I really want to post my art online, but I don’t know which platform to post in because they all have their flaws. You’re an angel for suggesting this idea so thank you so much ❤️❤️
Wordpress is a really good start imo, I work with it professionally and you can make some really stuff with minimal html and css!
website platform sites have their censorship standards too, often far more restrictive than social media platforms, the only way someone could freely express themselves on the internet is through coding. At the risk of getting political, but only provided project 2025 isn't successful since the agenda behind it is to make everything in America officially totalitarian (and yes, they plan to end free speech on the net too). Technically the U.S. isn't a free country, it is a country where the only ones who are given rights are the rich, the corporate elites, etc, the country provides liberties but with those in power expecting you (the poor class) to abide by how they want you to use your "promised liberties." Those aren't treated as rights, those are privileges in an in denial police state that pretends they're free and prosperous. In the U.S. it is illegal to be poor and if you're rich, especially if you have enough fame, you essentially have cart blanche to break all the rules in the book.
you can also just ask chatgpt to write code for you :)
I started to build my own website bc I wanted a place to basically show my creativity and stories without the rules of other places. I recommend for people to try to use plain html and css. Its gonna be hard to try to build from scratch but I recommend its worth it!
I've been thinking of picking up html again after watching this video and Luvstar's previous one and this comment was like a finding a penny head's side up, lol
I can't wait for more fun and personal websites to start sprouting again tbh, because seeing everyone here beginning to put a little bit of their love and soul into this revival makes me so excited!
Even if I can't make my own website now, I hope I can see everyone else's soon! ٩(๑`∇´๑)۶
I have been working on my html site for a while but I think I should try using an editor maybe because this is hard (and that comes from someone who already has a little experience with coding)
@@FireJojoBoy Nothing wrong with using a CMS, but you will be a bit more limited. It's all a trade-off between time/effort vs flexibility. With enough time and effort you can combine HTML, CSS, and JavaScript to make your website look and function just about any way you can imagine and you can leverage the knowledge you gain into career opportunities. On the other hand, if you just want a website to be your own personal homepage for showing off your art or blogging and you don't mind giving up some flexibility, a CMS might be perfect for you.
I personally think HTML, CSS, and JavaScript are really cool tools to show off your creativity, but if your goals are nontechnical and those tools are keeping you from reaching your goal of just getting your website out there, then they're not serving their purpose.
@@HedgeFlounder hm yeah. I decided I actually wanna learn coding now. I'm not gooa at it but I guess no one is when they start out. My website is probably going to be a little more... quirky anyway haha
Nowadays ChatGPT can be a huge help. It can give you the html and css for a simple website of your description and it works pretty well. Of course, you should still learn the basics because otherwise it's going to be hard to understand what's happening in the code.
The internet as it exists right now is not the internet as the concept that was invented
The whole point was to have a sea of websites for people to explore, not 3 main megacorpo platforms that regurgitate from one another. YT, twitter, instagram, tiktok are only products. I think and hope it only makes sense that there'll be an indie web boom this decade. I want weird websites created by individuals and communities with unique styles and lots of personalization, I want the internet that was supposed to be when it started out as a public technological infrastructure deemed not profitable by the private sector, not the mainstream hellpit everyone's thrown into for a multibillion dollar supercomputer algorithm to scan your soul and determine that if they show a specific ad at 3:45am it'll hit you at the precise moment of a personal crisis for you to be 1.3% more likely to fill that hole with consumerism. Love this channel and all the new content I've been seeing about independent websites, the idea of a place within your website where you link to other ones you like is awesome and literally a community sustained web
Can't wait to make my own some day
agree, kind of miss that 90s early 2000 web space. that's why i love vrchat in VR due to this exact reason, there are so many user generated wacky but wonderful world created by community to admire
@@partyhiveco7331 vrchat is awesome, literally what I thought the internet would be as a kid!
No, what the internet is today was the plan all along and it's just going to get worse.
I use Neocities (had mine up for about 10 months now)
and yeah the control is just about 100% there except for music and limited file storage ....... BUT I host all of my files on catbox which keeps the size of my site down and lets me make it infinitely bigger; and I've embedded an mp3 player with my favorite music.
I dont own a traditional domain because of money, but I think neocities is the next best thing (if you can code it, it can be done) ... Thinkin about making a second neocities page after seeing your website recently honestly LOL; you've got an awesome layout going on. ❤❤
Neocities is peak :D
I definitely wanna mke a neocities website but I sdly don't know how to code and there isn't much UA-cam tutorials sadly. Because other neocities websites look so cool!
@@JE.600 Newcities has a whole starter course that'll teach you the beginings!. Also there's whole sites like W3schools that have articles about it.
@@JE.600 What do you mean not much tutorials? theres loads of html and css courses/tutorials on youtube, the basics can be learnt in an hour. There are even templates available if you struggle with setting everything up (like eggramen neocities, sadgrl website builder or codesharing neocities) and lots of effects can be also found online and just copy and pasted (like the ones from dynamic drive)
dude link your site
ever since i found out about neocities ive been OBSESSED with the idea of making my own little corner of the web, and even learning how to code has been personally very fun (although frustrating as well aaaaa)! Its honestly so cool to lose your mind trying to understand how any of this works and then one day just figuring it out and actually creating something from a few lines of text, its like a whole nother art form or art medium in and of itself! Its like building your own little room in the digital world from the ground up, making things appear from thin air, and it genuinely feels so similar to drawing, its like drawing but with text!
Its also so important to not let yourself get carried away by perfectionism because as 32:51 said, give the big corpos a big fuck you and just make the craziest, ugliest, downright disgustingly visually assaulting website ever if you want (just make sure to include a static and blander colored version for people with sensory issues or include a visual warning before you enter the main site!) with as many buttons and menus and gifs as humanly possible because why not?? its your website! It adds to the exploration and discovery aspect lmao. I would rather get a stroke trying to find the artists shop or commissions info like a fuckin tresure hunt where i have to solve goblin riddles and play a minigame to enter a specific section than click on a link and see a powerpoint slides ahh cookie-cutter corporatized website where everything is optimized specifically to take me to the shop section as easily as possible (artistic intent vs. commercial intent). Id say just treat it as if youre trying to decorate your sketchbook cover with stickers, dont overthink it, go for a "vibe" and not a "look", and fill the insides with things you love and care about! Make something big corpos would never even think about!
LOVE this. the way you described a hypothetical artist's commission page treasure hunt is HILARIOUS XDDD and the analogy of a website being a sketchbook decorated with stickers is SO CUTE!! 💜screw corpos, support artists!!! 💜
@@luvstarkei2 YESS!!
You posted it right in the middle of me watching your previous video. You're amazing.
I'm not all the way through watching but I suggest doing a video discussing RSS feeds. This is a protocol that lets users who run "feed reader" apps do follows/subscribes to your web site, just like how they work on centralized social media: the apps will automatically check in to see if the feed has changed, and notify the user. Today it's mostly used by professionals who are trying to follow news and industry developments, but it also works great for webcomics and anything else you might need periodic announcements for.
Blogging and CMS software like Wordpress often builds in the stuff needed to generate the feed, but like with HTML, it can be authored by hand if you're really motivated.
What's good about sites that you've coded yourself is that if the place you've uploaded your site ever does go down... who cares! As long as you have a downloaded copy of your site, you can just reupload the whole thing somewhere else. If you have your own domain name, you can use that domain name on the new host, and people visiting your site won't even know it went down.
you can make backups when using a CMS. a CMS will also make it significantly easier to update content on a website, and to make changes across the whole site.
@horsescary I don't personally like how restrictive CMS is or how uniform it makes your site, but if it works for you, by all means you do you!! As long as people are getting their own sites up :)
@@AtelierAni I haven't messed with wordpress personally, but from the docs it seems relatively simple to write all the html/css for a theme yourself.
I've found blogs and such running off of static webpages to be really annoying to maintain, as its much more difficult to do things programmatically; its more difficult to manage content without a content management system. (and it means that I have to write javascript)
@horsescary I just do literally everything in html and css 😆 uniform themesand everything being commodified as content is exactly what I'm trying to get away from with my own site!! A cms is great if you're running a blog or a site where info/articles is the focus, but it's restrictive if you want to have fun with the design or are just running a little personal site. For me, having a personal site isn't about "content", it's a personal and artistic expression 😊
I got SO excited by your last video! I've had my website for ages, but it's been only since the recent few years that I started updating it a LOT.
After watching your previous video, I felt extremely motivated. I got SO many ideas for blog posts and art that I want to make! I also really want to try and get that 'old internet spark' back, so I'm even more excited to see you inspired so many people to also make a website! I'll be happy to contribute to exciting people all around the world to make their own website. I want to see those old networks get back to life, people linking to one another and stuff. Visiting webpages with a soul.
The displacement caused by AI is temporary. Things always balance themselves out. I could be wrong, but I think the displacement is caused by two main factors:
- some jobs are formulaic and patternized
- the hype is way overblown and there are a lot of liars
On the first point, some jobs are easy to replace by AI or even non-AI programs, because they are just made of patterns. Patterns are the easiest thing to automate.
I stumbled on a video recently of a guy saying he was replaced by AI, but two things stood out to me: 1) his work was just about all made from templates, and 2) template sped up his work flow, but he never told his employer about it.
He did website layouts or something. I forgot. But he was replaced because, not only was his work made of easily automatable patterns, he was also misleading his boss into thinking he took way longer to get the job done than the AI did. Maybe if he hadn't done that, it might've played out differently.
I think this is one good example of why we ought to be a bit skeptical of people complaining about loosing jobs to AI. All throughout history, automation always created more jobs than it took. We've been automating things for centuries, and there's only ever been an ever growing amount of jobs (especially considering how dramatically the world's population has also grown alongside that).
On the second point, the overblown hype is leading a disproportional amount of people to AI. Eventually most people will have been disenchanted and things will simmer down.
I'm a programmer, I don't work on AI, but I have a decent understanding of how LLMs and generative-AI works. I've been paying quite some attention to this from the programming perspective, and while there have been some people trying to make-believe that AI has improved their workflow tenfold or more, in reality most people have not been having that experience. For small code snippets, sure, AI can be great. But that's about it.
The channel NeetCodeIO has made a video titled "Why is everyone lying?" that demonstrates perfectly how much of a waste of time AI can be. (No need know programming, his demonstration should be glaringly obvious to anyone). It's worth a watch, imo, for anyone who wants to see how much failure AI can yield.
Ultimately AI is a tool, not an artist, not a programmer, etc. It can be used for inspiration, for some kind of assistance, but it can't generate what we need or what our customers need. It doesn't have -- and it can't have -- any understanding of context, or of the nuances of your customers' requests, etc. There's actually a whole lot that AI cannot possibly ever do.
It also makes tons of mistakes and it takes quite some time to guide it to yield anything decent. An experienced artist might just get the job done faster, and better. :)
I'm pretty sure the person who just got replaced by AI is a UI/UX Designer. I know because I am one. Though I never use templates, but I often use free assets like illustrations and icons on my designs. Another thing to point out is that I'm lucky that my boss is somewhat against AI. However, I do think designing websites uses a lot of patterns and more objective than art. Compared to both programming and art, it doesn't take any special skill or talent to design a website, unless you create arts to be used ON the website.
Ultimately, I do believe the ONLY thing that will never be replaced by AI is art. And artists should not be worried imo.
@@Kalitayy that may have been it, yea. I've found the video: it's by Nadestraight, titled "I Lost My Job Because of AI". He also made a follow up video.
To be fair, he striked me as quite down to earth and honest, not whiny or doom&gloomy or anything. Just plain talking about what happened.
Maybe LLM is really the better term to use (not gonna happen) than AI
I'm only just getting started learning front end development but I gotta say, HTML is far easier to understand than I ever expected.
There are tons of really great resources everywhere for learning it, and alot of help for when you get stuck. It'll be a journey but I'm happy to have started it!
Totally agree on having ownership of your website. Next step is having your own way to reach people that care about your work, which is basically a newsletter, a list of e-mails you can reach from your domain. Have a way for people to sign-up as soon as possible.
It’s time to make a website guys!
Thank you for this second video regarding the topic of website-ownership being part of the future of digital-art-content-creation, Kei 🙌 It is a great inspiration 🍃
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[sorry if the following is too-texty, just felt correct to share it here]:
I'm a striving manga/comic artist from SouthAmerica, who doesn't seem to find the appropriate niche among my real-life contemporaries. So a few years I first made a blog for my comic/manga, and made the content available in Spanish and English.
Of course, even if not much, the main number of visitors to my 'now' website, are Spanish-speaking.
I have the hopes of sooner than later get my 'cólicbrook' (that's the word I 'invented' to refer to my comic/manga) seen by wordly-speaking people of many different places, and that gets me happy and motivated to keep making it better to visit.
Sorry again, since I'm not sharing right at the get-go my site [which I lovingly refer to as my "web-cuento"🌟] in your comments, and that is because first I would like to finish-up making it look comfier, and then I'll share it around, since I know I'll be watching your future content, being website-related or nope~🌠 (but when I do 👁 I'll make sure to have your site as a personal recommendation, as you taught here) So thanks for that! ☀
'Till another video~🐺🌻
This is the energy i need to see in more youtube content. Thanks for being such a positive creator and promoting proper discussion.
I didn't know how much I missed just watching someone in front of the camera, opening heartfelt discussions with their community untill I saw this video. You're so refreshing and a star for motivating all these wonderful people down here in the comments to be creative. Great video!
I love the cake analogy. So cute!
同同. A year of reading abstract stuff and getting multiple terms for same things (CMS, web app; host, server…) and The Cake takes the cake🎉 It's review for me now, but, reinforcement- after this vid it's easier for me to recall the concepts, to hold them in mind while I do the creative work with them. And the cherry can be eaten (yummy) and another placed on top; can cause problems, patch-up work, I hear, but basically you can switch out themes and keep all/most of your blog articles, backgrounds, menus.
your video is inspiring me to get back into making content for my dumb website... I think my goal is to have an infinite number of pages eventually, each filled with strange and random ideas, thoughts, and content... I don't know what I'm doing and that's great!
if you embed a livestream on your website with a chatbox you can give a big incentive for people to use your website as well. just do the livestream on some random website, disable the websites chat, and embed it on your own site and just advertise that you're streaming on ur site. plenty of websites that you can do livestreams from too that wont throw ads on your streams like Dlive, definitely dont wanna use twitch lol nothing but ads.
I thought about that but gave up the idea for that reason- def gotta find those sites. Will UA-cam work? Saw 1 paid software but very expensive.
thanks for this!! finally taking the plunge and building my own website for my music portfolio and world building. this was super helpful!
Theres always wordpress and hosting it on your own hardware rather than wix or amazon and all that other crap... i personally have a nas and well i store alot on it so theres that, its also not that hard to have some old laptop or desktop you dont use anymore (some random dell optiplex back from 2010 should be more than enough)
thats true!! i was going to mention that as an alternative but i thought it wouldnt be too common of a solution for a beginner. but if you have the hardware for it, definitely :o
Love that this is so early 2010s core❤
the era of webrings and geocities had passed by 2010
It's not
Oh my goodness! I just watched your first video an hour ago and now this comes out. I'm so lucky!! Thank you for this!!!!
i also wasnt around for the early internet but i heard a bit about how fun it was and i want to maybe be a apart of that some day. i dont know exactly what i would make a website for yet even though im an artist too, but i think maybe ill get around to it. i mostly main twitter but its been tangibly falling apart so the idea of setting up my own tiny digital throneworld is really nice. and im also really into the idea of linking other people's too. i do actually like being social on social media and it would be a shame if twitter of all things got in the way of that :)
You've got something about you that inspires me. Thank you for posting. I love your website, about to make a purchase now! Keep going kiddo!
Re: link to each other
I dunno if it's necessary to explain buuuut... Back in the before times there was a concept called a webring. Everyone in a group or network would link to one or more sites from their own and theoretically make a "ring". usually there was a hub site that listed all the sites out. Usually there wasn't much search-ability. You had to kind of manually browse, but you would find cool stuff.
There were many issues with them, but i've be thinking about how to revive and modernize them recently. Because just having links and making a bigger space with similar sites would make having a website more interesting and probably more appealing.
neocities users have seemed to embrace the idea of webrings which is nice... I think the concept of bbs would make their heads explode tho
I really love your website!! You make me wanna make my own little corner for my hobbies and funsies. Anyone else scared about what to show on your pages? Because i am
Fantastic illustrations, discussion! Thanks!!! You describe the core purpose of the internet- it's not only curated friends, like an exhibit of humans in a socmed corpo display case.* Also, I think your point on bottom line is domain ($20~/year) and free hosting with some hassle somewhere? (find the function to download your content once a [period] for backup); goes up in price about $20-50 increments for more (>$300 increments for high function).
*that also exists and is great for what it is; maybe media algorithms just amplify cynacism and meanness for their natural infectiousness. It brought your vid to my feed-trough😂 though😊
now i rly wanna do this cuz i always have so many opinions on websites I visit
damn I worked at namecheap customer service a long time ago, was my first job. bringing back flashbacks 😭
(also great video obv thanks a lot!)
If you're not happy anymore with the old domain, there's a trick you can do to avoid the pain of renaming every link leading to your website. You can make a permanent redirection to the new domain. Google will understand where your website now is based on the redirection, and all the old links will still work.
The only downside is that you will have to pay for the old domain for as long as you want to support the old links.
I understand the desire to want a domain and hosting for free, especially if you're young, either too young to have a job or you have a job that just doesn't pay well enough that you can spare money for something as seemingly "frivolous" as a website. I've been there myself, and it sucks. Unfortunately, though, websites really do cost money: either you pay with money, or you pay with lack of control over the content, i.e. you get ads forced on to your site, or you get a big ugly corporate banner stuck at the top.
And, just in case people are wondering *why* these things cost money:
* Domains cost money because all the DNS servers around the world need to be maintained by someone, and they invest a lot of money into ensuring the web runs smoothly and into defending against bot nets and the like.
* Hosting costs money because you're basically renting the use of someone's computer, ideally with the expectation that they'll take care of ensuring the server hardware (and possibly software, depending on what sort of hosting you have) is kept running.
Add a big dollop of capitalism on top of that and here we are: things cost money :(
edit: regarding the AI thing, I agree with you. People using AI to make art aren't artists, they're patrons commissioning "art" from an AI.
Juat wanted to say that i luv ur website and honestly thx for the tips
Remember the main drawback of starting a website is that there isn't generally any free traffic like you can get with social media. You can solve this problem by hooking up with other website owner and linking to each other.
I found your channel 3 days ago (ish) but I love your content so much. I g’et so inspired!
Unrelated to the video, but! YOUR GORGEOUS!!! The purple hair looks so pretty in you :D 💜
aww thank you so much!!
@@luvstarkei2 your welcome!!!
I'm glad to see that others were just as inspired by your last video as I was. I've been having a blast with making my website and I'll def e-mail it to you when it's done. Even if it's not a good fit for you to showcase, I hope it's still cool.
I sent your video to a super skilled artist friend of mine and she's also very motivated to get a website going which makes me so happy cause she's definitely someone whose work people need to be more aware of. 😤😤
I loved the cake and spider analogies.
(im putting this at the bottom cause i didnt wanna feel like a leech but i gave an early tour of my website on my yt channel 😉)
If you just don't want to learn how to code html or are too lazy I'm pretty sure there are ways to get free html/css templates for websites out there.
19:35 links on your site: this was my plan from the start; haven't made it yet but always has been my intention to make a kind of 'site map' but for every other site I visited and have any interest in
Also, what you’re talking about at 20:00 or so is called a webring! Or, well, roughly in concept. I suppose if the loop of shared content isn’t closed it’s more like a webline, but still. It’s an old thing from ye olden days of Web 1.0!
Neocities not mentioned 😔
Yeah I'm curious why.
@@mysteriz_madii guess because if neocities shut down youd loose your website but i think the benefits of neocities totally outweigh that risk
she said that she wasn't gonna talk about entire domains!! neocities is a domain like wix, just way more ethical (from my understanding)
@@pop-punkreptile5827 Oh! I still know very little about things like this, so I didn't realize the terms.
Am i tripping? How are replies older than the comment?
A cool alternative to wordpress is file based content management, grav cms for example. Its less complex to run as a site on the internet since its just spits out regular html pages for you. And its easier to get started customising your css and html markup.
ANOTHER BANGER XD
25:40 It's not being afraid of new technology at all. This argument is not at the core of the problem with generative AI, because it does not address the ethical implications of the technology's creation. It was built off the backs of people and artists whose work and information were scraped and used to train these models without their permission, being used to spit out low-quality forgeries of popular artist's styles, and so on. This technology has incredible potential for actually helpful applications, such as in medical and astronomical fields (detecting cancer well before human doctors can, or picking up on fascinating interstellar anomalies that scientists can't, for example). But right now, it's being used by large corporations to replace real people with soulless garbage, or in the case of search engines, feeding actually harmful misinformation to people who just want to answer simple questions.
Since i discovered Neocities a whole new world opened before my eyes, nowdays im busy with a job and other side responsibilities but your vids bring back the joy of making one, let's see if i can buy a domain someday ^_^
I am so grateful for 12 yo me learning html for neopets pet pages
I did send you an email right after I wrote that comment XD - Nice that you made a follow up video. :D
Thank you so much for making these website videos they really have inspired me!
just created a repository on github and now watching this lol, can't wait to re-learn html! thanks for the motivation :)
i totally get buying a domain but rn i don't exactly want to commit to a name rn so i wouldn't wanna spend money on something like that
and thats totally okay!! so glad youre doing something regardless :) best of luck!
I am a 3d artist learning blender since the pandemic started before all the ai insanity started and it really bummed me out I was just short of my first 1k followers and now I hate instagram. Thanks a lot for the positive energy and the inspiration to get me started making a website. I was always afraid of these subscription services but if there is a free open source way that would be the next step for me and my small collective of artists and djs to get our own website
Hi kei, I’m so glad I found you off this video, you’re super talented ^^ I also wanted to ask where you got all your cool posters in the background?
Thank you so much luvstar😘 well you are looking beautiful so can i say, "Beauty is Without Makeup"💙
i truly love to see other people's portfolios n stuff
Very nice. This was cool.
Thank you for making these videos! I'm an artist and you inspired me to do my own website. I don't have money for now so I might use the free alternatives you mentioned, hopefully one day I'll get my own domain, but in the meantime, when I'm done building it I might write you an email with the link ^^
ps: you give me vibes of a cool person, the way you address many opinions even if you don't fully agree with some makes me think you deserve to get back the good respect you give.
ill be looking forward to that email, do take your time!! 💜 and thank you so much, i do try my best to be respectful of everyone's opinions!
I've had a few different websites, just playing around with different designs, for 15 years.
Now I have one that I don't really know what to do with. Mostly because it doesn't offer enough storage. I used to be able to have a lot of pictures on there, but Wix changed things. And now even the lowest monthly subscription cost would be too expensive, and still not enough storage. It's too much money for something only I and maybe 2 more people visit.
So, I don't know if I should try another web builder, but that'd suck bc I've learnt and like this one. 🤔🙃
18:52 comment so true! I feel like I have to suffer the dystopia and provide or pay for the aesthetic
I've been debating on getting a website (years ago I started learning coding but it's very tedious.) for my buying and selling vintage, but I don't like having subscriptions and having to pay annually or monthly. :/ Another UA-camr uses Squarespace, and I even started creating a website with a free trial but can't do much in 2 weeks and now I have to pay if I want to see and use what I created.
I made a website inspired by your video, using canva!!!!
It's begginer and no-coder friendly :3
would you recommend using neocities? idk if its any similar to what you described but is that a good place to start for free? im looking into website making but i dont really want to spend any money until im completely sure about it
This is an amazing video, I loved it also your really pretty :)
To respond to the AI art discussion: virtual intelligence has a place. VI can detect cancerous cells YEARS before they become ever a problem, and can assess and predict patterns that we could never do, like, for example, weather patterns. Art is not in the list. It can't create nothing new and it spits out something from the will of a human from data banks that may or may not have been stolen. This is how today's virtual intelligence art works. It's not art, in my opinion, it's a nothing-burger. And, yes, I can agree on the fact that the technology behind it is very interesting and complex but nukes and guns and the psychology behind social media are also very complex and interesting, that doesn't mean that they aren't literally meant to, hurt people. This is not to say that I'm directly comparing AI art with nukes, guns and the addictive psychology of social medias, but their complexity and harm are equal in their engineering, although the scale of harm is different.
I used google sites for my website
I am planning to redo the website in the future with Squarespace and buy a domain when I can (still in high-school so it's not my biggest priority)
This video would have been sooooo helpful like 11 months ago when I made my other website but is still helpful now too (if that makes sense)
Edit: I just finished watching the whole video and omg thanks you for reading my comment!
Hi I was on the web as a teen in the 90’s and you should just make funny websites that are things you share with your friends- then at some point decide to make a “real” website.
You can make really excellent stuff with just html, don’t wait for some big moment.
@@gourdbox i actually started trying to learn html yesterday (cuz Google sites is a Google product so it'sonly a matter of time before that gets shut down)
This was so helpful omg, how are you not popular already 😭 anyways what age do you recommend would be the best for making a website? I’m a mostly young person and I’ve been stressed out on what to do :’)
Learning to code is never too early or too late. If you want to, just go for it :)
Could neocities be a content management software? :0
which host do you use and why?
hi guys i was thinking about starting a database on wikis with all the website links!! do let me know if yall are interested in something like this just to help with visibility.
Thank you!
watch out corpos, the zoomers are reinventing webrings.
rings never died ❤
Damn, that's work for a team of different specialists
yay they made a sequal :DDD
💜💜💜💜
Okie but is there a difference between wordpress and tumblr? they're both blog websites that you can customize the theme...
wordpress and tumblr by themselves are not all that different - the difference is you can use wordpress to display content on your own website that you have full ownership over with a domain. on tumblr, your blog belongs to tumblr, and if they choose to shut down their website, your blog is also gone.
I just came across this video in my recommended and I could NOT be happier that other people are yearning to return to making their own sites too 😭 I first made my site back in 2021 and it was like the most fulfilling journey Ive started in terms of social media or internet-ing in general, its like youre quite literally carving out your own piece of the web :D also NEOCITIES FTW BEST FREE HOST IN THE GAME💥🤩💥🤩💥🤩🎉
im convinced this is actually lain pretending to be luvstar to get us to make more websites and get more involved in the wired
it's time to go outside beloved
You deserve an MBA
You look beautiful
YAYAYYAYYAYAYAYAYAYA
Would you say having a square space site is considered your own site? I have one through square pace and purchased a domain through them and was wondering it that counts
Squarespace owns and hosts your website, you just rent it. Transferring the files is not possible, therefore you don’t own the site.
This is actually pretty cool! To push this movement forward maybe there could be a hashtag..? I know that's kinda pandering to social media still, but if a lot of people started posting "I made my own personal website, so should you! #myownsite" or smt like that, it might get a few more eyes on this movement (especially if one of the posts blow up).
p.s. Great vid :] I've made a few website designs just for fun but now I'm actually thinking about making my own domain
i recently learned about a movement from someone who reached out to me with their own website, its called #BeYourOwnPlatform and definitely fits within the theme of making your own personal websites!!
i want to visit your website but my browser marks it as dangerous and wont let me visit :(
Press "details" and then "make an exception"
@@genelfax i realised that a while ago but thanks!
I think I wanna make a website also, but how are people gonna find it? It sort of just feels a distant island on the internet when it comes to art, you know what I mean?
Share the link, there is always someone curious
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nice vid lmao
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great video!
i dont like your site though
it looks like its bloated even though its probably not
just reminds me of a news site probably
jesus, bro
I think ai is bad period. In every single way. I don't think it should ever be used and I am talking about generative ai. ai code, ai art, etc. I just find it disgusting.
Without ai, things like videogames wouldn't be able to work the way they do today. Ai can be a tool to make art with, but currently companies are using it the wrong way.
@@Crow-uo9ke Maybe learn to read a whole sentence before making an asinine comment. I'm talking about generative ai not video game ai. btw There are 0 good ethical uses for ai art. So you can go fool someone else with that ai art sympathizer speech.
@@Crow-uo9ke Learn to read a whole sentence before making dopey comments.
@@Crow-uo9keNPCs are different from ai
black and white thinking is a character flaw
another reason to have a personal website is that you dont have to censor yourself and can freely express yourself
I've been working on my own site for a while so I can have a dedicated place of my own for my portfolio and art/photography/film information. So far I've been designing it with Canva with no issues but I hope it stays that way! I'll send you an email when it goes live- have been using social media much less in the past months myself.
Btw usually domains ending in .me or .win are way cheaper. Here in Canada .ca tends to be way cheaper the NET COM or ORG too. A ca tends to be $20 a year and .me tends to be a few dollars a year.
Thanks for reading my comment. interactive tv. 😎 just wanted to say the algorithm sent me but i am interested in the topic. i used to do art but somewhere along the way my dream kinda fell asleep. maybe getting back into it through computerized stuff is the way to go. i am also interested in getting back to the old way the internet used to be but i think there might be too many people online now for it to work the same way any more. there was this really old protocol called bbs that was a thing a long time ago. it would be cool of people started to do that again i think. thats all i guess. hope to see some more of your videos in the future. also; minecraft is cool.
many people still run their own bbs, they're out there for you to find!