This post isn't a direct post on the internet, but I touch the small web, and maybe this reflection can be usefull for the people around here. Maybe we can learn, focus on the right things for our small projects for the small web... Not sure.

Feels like people here could be interested in the post.

How to have a proper small web website within minutes; free, lightweight, easy.

Basically started the "research" because someone asked how she could make a blog to share pictures. I figured to just make it into an essay because I regularly come across creative people or folks whose ideas are worth sharing but who don't share at all, or who keep themselves locked in traditional corporate social media, which is often contradictory to the cause they're fighting for.

I found this place, and the community is pretty cool. If you are looking for what retro social experiences and communities might have become without massive amounts of centralization you should give it a try.

Crossposted from c/The Smol Web@slrpnk.net

I found the old WSMZ (https://hbaguette.neocities.org/) bannerAds, and noticed it was not being maintained…

So I started maintaining it on my site.

I am here to share this, and hope that more people will want to be involved to add their site to the list!

All I need is a message from you, or an email to the address on the page, with a blurb about your site, a 468x60 banner ad, and the URL to link to!

My hope is to one day maybe also be able to use this list to create a StumbleUpon like button for the SmolWeb.

Part weather forecast site, part performance art. Repent 2 ur weather lords.

Very good write up. Fun site about tobacco holders as well

tldr: What would a smallweb-style "code viewer" look like? What kind of theme and UI elements should it have? Here's my attempt: https://repos.tuckerm.us/ui-experiments/branches/main/demo/

While self-hostable git forges like Forgejo are really cool, I also think they're overkill for most use cases. When I just want to put some side projects up on the web, I don't need an issue tracker or a discussion forum. I know you can disable those features in Forgejo, but what if I just didn't have those features at all? And therefore didn't need much of a backend server?

I recently realized that most of what I want in a git repo viewer can be done with just static HTML files. I started working on that as an 11ty static site generator plugin.

It's very very hacky right now, but it works as a proof of concept. I'm improving it now. If people end up using it, I'm hoping that they customize it to fit the style of their existing personal site. But I want it to come with a default theme so that it can be used right out of the box.

I was playing around with an idea for a look and feel here: https://repos.tuckerm.us/ui-experiments/branches/main/demo/

At first I was using the stock Bootstrap UI components, which are practical and professional. But then I decided that this smallweb repo viewer should have a look and feel that matches the ethos of the project itself: personal, not corporate, and open to being expressive. And not just trying look like Github with no backend.

The current, Bootstrap-styled pages are here, and that is also the repository for the project itself. But I'd love to make it more unique that that.

Does anyone have any input for a look and feel for this project? I'm open to anything. A color palette you like, a basic layout, or general ideas.

I just stumbled upon the resume site of a web designer/developer named Corey Tegeler and just immediately liked something about it. It's simple, in two columns on desktop and one column on mobile, and has a nice use of a monospaced font. The background subtly changes color over time.