# Making websites!

Hello!

A personal website is a fantastic way to own your identity
online and take back your web experience from the big social media silos.

* Getting started
- Tutorial: https://neocities.org/tutorial/html/1

- HTML
- Hyper Text Markup Language
- CSS
- Cascasding Style Sheets
- bootstrap

- Hosting
- Neocities (recommended!)
- Really easy to get started
- Great tutorials for learning
- Fantastic community
- $5/mo for a custom domain name
- Netlify (recommended!)
- Free to get started
- Custom domain name is free
- Works well with git (but it's optional)
- AWS
- Can be complicated
- Only use it if you know what you want (or want to learn)
- GitHub pages
- If you're comfortable with git, this can be a good starter option
- More options...
- glitch.com
- wordpress.org
- tumblr.com

- Buying domain names
- Domain registrar
- namecheap.com
- hover.com

# Project Ideas!
- Personal website
- Blog
- Photo journal
- Online shop
- Make a game
- Easy ways to make games without any programming
- bitsy
- twine

# Useful tools
- Blogging .. build an audience
- tumblr
- writefreely
- Online shop .. sell stuff and make some $$$ online 🤑
- Shopify
- Gumroad
- Static site generators
- Hugo
- Jekyll
- Wordpress
- you can make pretty much anything with wordpress