How to Build a Website

Your website should be your home base. Social platforms can disappear, pivot, or throttle your reach, but your own site is portable and fully yours.

This guide index walks you from absolute basics to publishing live, with practical tools if you want to go further.

Section 1: The Basics

Start here if you are building from scratch:

See the finished example site from this section here.

Section 2: Going Live

Section 3: Advanced Web Crafting

Planned topics:

  • Guide 1: Make Your Site Mobile Friendly
  • Guide 2: Make A Blog Section
  • Guide 3: Add An RSS Feed Of Your Social Media
  • Guide 4: Make A Comment Section

Useful Resources

You do not have to build your site alone. These tools can speed things up:

VS Code

Excellent editor with syntax highlighting, autocomplete, extensions, and GitHub integration.

Obsidian

Markdown-first workspace with strong organization and writing workflows.

Strawberry Starter

Command-line workflow for writing and deploying to Neocities with minimal HTML knowledge.

Support

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