Why did I ever abandon HTML/CSS?
My 2004 website is live over here!
I don't know if I've written about it here, yet, maybe a little?
Anyway, my website was built with code I wrote/scrambled together in 2003/2004, and updated lightly.
It was such a joyful process, reinstating old pages, and using old ideas, adding things I've written since, and making up new things as I went along.
It invariably made me wonder why I ever fell for the myth that websites needed to be built using complicated software, and that I had to do all these things to optimise it for SEO and all that crap.
I never got my engagement from search engines, it was always through sharing links on social media.
Hell, I even bought themes for Wordpress and Ghost, trying to make my site look professional. It never felt like me. It felt like conforming to a standard that I adhered to without knowing why.
I abandoned having a separate website and blog, and integrated it all, and invariably became SO overwhelmed with everything that I stopped blogging for a long time.
Finding the small web changed that for me.
And now I've found the perfect thing for me in blogging via email and handcoding my site. Tinkering has become my passion once more, frantically searching for cool things to add, and for tips on something I struggled with.
There is SO much of me in my new website, as there is in this blog. I'm sharing more than I have ever done too, of my own creativity. It shines everywhere on the site and my blog.
The combination of my blog and site are all me, and maintaining both is as simple as can be.
How perfect is that?