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neocities guide - why you should build your own html website

do you miss the charm of the 90s/00s web where sites had actual personality instead of the same minimalistic theme? are you feeling drained by social media and the constant corporate monopoly of your data and time? do you want to be excited about the internet again? try neocities!!

what is neocities?

neocities is a free hosting website that lets you build your own html website from scratch, with total creative control. in their own words: "we are tired of living in an online world where people are isolated from each other on boring, generic social networks that don't let us truly express ourselves. it's time we took back our personalities from these sterilized, lifeless, monetized, data mined, monitored addiction machines and let our creativity flourish again."

why should I make my own website?

web3 has been overtaken by capitalism & conformity. websites that once were meant to be fun online social spaces now exist solely to steal your data and sell you things. it sucks!! building a personal site is a great way to express yourself and take control of your online experience.

what would I even put on a website?

the best part about making your own site is that you can do literally whatever the hell you want! focus on a specific subject or make it a wild collection of all your interests. share your art! make a shrine for one of your interests! post a picture of every bird you see when you step outside! make a collection of your favorite blinkies! the world is your oyster !! here are some cool example sites to inspire you: recently updated neocities sites | it can be fun to just look through these and browse people's content! space bar | local interstellar dive bar creature feature | halloween & monsters big gulp supreme peanutbuttaz | personal site dragodiluna linwood | personal site patho grove | personal site

getting started: neocities/html guide

sound interesting? here are some guides to help you get started, especially if you aren't familiar with html/css sadgrl.online webmastery | a fantastic resource for getting started with html & web revival. also has a layout builder that you can use to start with in case starting from scratch is too intimidating web design in 4 minutes | good for learning coding basics w3schools | html tutorials templaterr | demo & html for basic web elements eggramen test pages | css page templates to get started with sadgrl background tiles | bg tiles rivendell background tiles | more free bg tiles

fun stuff to add to your site

want your site to be cool? here's some fun stuff that i've found blinkies-cafe | fantastic blinkie maker! (run by @transbro & @graphics-cafe) gificities | internet archive of 90s/00s web gifs internet bumper stickers | web bumper stickers momg | gif gallery 99 gif shop | 3d gifs 123 guestbook | add a guestbook for people to leave messages cbox | add a live chat box moon phases | track the phases of the moon gifypet | a little clickable page pet adopt a shroom | mushroom page pet tamaNOTchi | virtual pet crossword puzzle | daily crossword imood | track your mood neko | cute cat that chases your mouse pollcode | custom poll maker website hit counter | track how many visitors you have

web revival manifestos & communities

also, there's actually a pretty cool community of people out there who want to bring joy back to the web! melonland project | web project/community celebrating individual & joyful online experiences. Also has an online forum melonland intro to web revival | what is web revival? melonking manifesto | status cafe | share your current status nightfall city | online community onio.cafe | leave a message and enjoy the ambiance sadgrl internet manifesto | yesterweb internet manifesto | sadly defunct, still a great resource reclaiming online social spaces | great manifesto on cultivating your online experience

in conclusion

i want everyone to make a neocities site because it's fun af and i love seeing everyone's weird personal sites that they made outside of the control of capitalism :) say hi to me on neocities

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my favorite and best work

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does anyone wanna do some gay bullshit to me

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ENORMITY.

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wikipedia no longer being anywhere near the top of search results when looking up anything feels eviscerating

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everyone say thank you @frill-shark for sending me this video of a panel nessa was in discussing karis and cynte’s relationship (and a cynví mention?????) (timestamp is 24:05)

my favorite moment personally:

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hmm.. i dont have anything specific in mind but do you have anything fun about karis? i love him dearly and I'd love to know more about him

oh boy hmmm some Karis Fun facts:

I said this in a previous answer but giving Cynte a boyfriend was kind of always my plan. like when Miz was like "let's start on Endo 2, what do you wanna write" and I was like "I wanna make a bug cult and give Cynte a boyfriend" he was like "great. go for it" LMAO

Karis had the most name ideas out of any of the new characters for Endo 2, including: Hesiod (which ended up the name of the ship), Ki, Vere or Vero, and then Caris, which ended up being changed to Karis for a better visual distinction from Cynte

he's intended to be Cynte's narrative foil and Cynte is definitely like objectively a bad person but also the idea of him finally Loving Someone and having that happen for the first time in his life and then they LEAVE..... it broke my heart so I had to write it like that

so Karis is like humble and trusting and he's a doctor because he wants to help people (as opposed to Cynte who probably got into biology as more of a god-complex serving thing)

if Cynte likes his coffee black then Karis likes caramel brulee lattes. I think Karis has an atrocious sweet tooth

I don't want to yap too much about what happened with them before endo 1 and 2 (bc I like when folks write their own stuff I think it's great) but I think Karis probably gave Cynte a present for the first time and Cynte thought it was just a wrapped box so he didn't open it for days. a strange trinket from his boyfriend

when it comes to Karis administering the antidote to myself that has Gameplay Reasons obviously but I wanted to communicate that the fact Karis left Cynte behind weighs so heavily on Karis. like it obviously weighs heavily on Cynte (who was so bummed about it he went full girlboss mode and created a contagion oops) but I wanted to communicate that the bad feelings there are mutual. all the feelings they have are 100% reciprocal, positive and negative, and that is so confusing to both of them and I just think that's Beautiful

Karis would main dry bones in mario kart

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I did a little practice to draw faster (with these cuties)

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It's time

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DIDN'T POST THIS HERE YET! But yipee finally an Ultrakill render!:'D Got more stuff done, just gotta polish them up uvu

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I heard that the hd version came out ... urgent storage of some doodles, mixed with personal preference warning, god I really love this game

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John D. Batten (1860-1932), ''Europa's Fairy Book'' by Joseph Jacobs, 1919

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queerplatonic joyfriends

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VIOLENCE

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burning text gif maker

heart locket gif maker

minecraft advancement maker

minecraft logo font text generator w/assorted textures and pride flags

windows error message maker (win1.0-win11)

FromSoftware image macro generator (elden ring Noun Verbed text)

image to 3d effect gif

vaporwave image generator

microsoft wordart maker (REALLY annoying to use on mobile)

you're welcome