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Finally bought myself a personal domain but am now currently agonizing over how to design the damn thing, let alone what to actually put on there!

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You could always start old-school Mosaic (with the tiniest bit of HTML5):

    <!DOCTYPE html>
    <html lang="en">
      <head>
        <title>Rafuino's site</title>
      </head>
      <body>
        <h1>Rafuino's site</h1>
        <p>Welcome!</p>
        <p><i>Under Construction</i></p>
      </body>
    </html>

It won't necessarily be displayed as serifed type, with raster aliasing, on gray, but you could CSS that in. :)

This is good advice. I'm collecting websites like this ("handmade") here - https://www.btbytes.com/websites.html

My own website is compiled together with a python script, but aesthetically close to what you describe.

Consider adding https://www.gwern.net/

Also worth checking: https://sjmulder.nl/en/textonly.html https://danluu.com/

I got lost for almost an hour in this little collection of yours. Bookmarked.

http://rusrs.com/

Compatible with Mosaic 1.0, Netscape 1.0, 3.0, 4.0, and IE 5.5, Links, Lynx, and NetSurf, among others tested.

You forgot <blink> and <marquee> (and some sick midi tunes)

You forgot <blink> and <marquee> (and some sick midi tunes)

Thanks to CSS animations, you can recreate <blink> and <marquee>.

I use it to recreate the Amiga's Guru Meditation Error when I'm debugging web sites.

Oh, I'm very aware (I actually do use those tricks on my personal page. Unfortunately I left out the midi. And of course it's loaded with stolen gifs from gifcities[0])

[0] https://gifcities.org/

I had a legit use for a marquee a few months ago and couldn't find a jank-free way to actually re-create all of its features. You can get the basics but even that sucks compared to just using <marquee> (heavier, more code).

Dammit you beat me to it!

I second this. And a few stolen animated gifs. You know, for posterity.

Calvin peeing on the MSIE logo and a 3D dancing baby.

sadly <bgsound> doesn't work anymore :(

Hey, that looks like my websites!

Ah ah, more seriously, this is a great template to copy paste so just a heads up: don't forget <meta charset="utf-8"/> before <title>.

I recently started a blog to write about my experience learning Brazilian Jiu Jitsu. One of the best choices I made was using the bundled WordPress theme, twentynineteen, and not worrying about design. It's been pretty liberating and for now I'm just focused on content. I'll revisit the design at some point but worrying about the design in the beginning is almost like not learning to play guitar because you don't have a band name yet. Just start putting content up, the design will or won't come. Good luck!!

Don't worry about the design. That can come later. Just get a single, well formed HTML page up there with a few words. Once you have that the design and content problems will seem less insurmountable.

I spent years agonising. I even wrote my own Node.js framework before I finally realised it was all procrastination, and put together a static site and deployed it in a few minutes. Over the years I've added features and improved the static site generator, but the design is still a bit rubbish!

Looks great! What static engine did you go with, if any?

It's one I hand rolled in Node. It boils down to markdown for blog entries and handlebars for templates. Not exactly in vogue, but I've found the mix (with a little hacking around) very productive. The code is at https://github.com/qubyte/qubyte-codes if you're interested. :)

Once its ready, I'll be happy to add it to our platform. It lets one find and connect with people nearby. https://its-near.me

This is an easy paralysis to fall into. Unless you know you need something more, just start by getting some useful content up in plain HTML.

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