Plant Your Own Garden

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Today, I spent the equivalent of around ten hours of work (on my day off, no less), designing and developing a new kind of “side service” I wanted to offer to people who: Don’t have the time, or don’t want to learn HTML and CSS, and who want to separate themselves from corporate media, just a little bit, even if it’s just to stop paying services like Linktree a monthly fee.

So, today I am unveiling, LinkGarden.

Plant your own garden … of links!

I detail the service on the page, but I’ll write about it here, as well, except, maybe in a more extended fashion. I’m offering this for eighty bucks. You pay me, then contact me, and I’ll get your page together, and even make you a Neocities where it can be hosted (hosted, completely for free). Of course, once I hand over the credentials, you’ll be responsible for changing your password. But, that’s a given!

You can request to use a custom domain, but this is a little more involved, in that, we’ll need to figure out if you’re buying the domain, and if you know how to setup the DNS. If not, I certainly know how to do this, but I also don’t have access to your domain admin panels.

I’m doing this, though, because, I want to show people that they can have all the frills of a Linktree, without a Linktree. I can do it for you, easy-peasy, and in about an hour.

Now, obviously, if you want really extensive, or more complicated stuff (more javascript, animated buttons that do more than just click and highlight, and so on and so forth), that would obviously take more than an hour to setup. Then, yes, we’ll have to negotiate pricing a little bit (right now my day job takes up so much of my time it’s ridiculous). Consider this though, if you currently pay monthly for a Linktree, or some other such service, and you’ve been doing so for a long time, how much have you paid them, in total? Probably less than what it’d cost for me to do this for you, right?

But I’m also doing this, because you should own your own piece of the internet. A place where a bunch of suits aren’t tracking your every move, where people can come and see what you’re all about, quickly, and easily. Maybe sometime in the future I’ll offer to build people entire websites! But, I don’t think that’s a venture I want to spend another ten hours preparing right now (I have some people in VR I want to visit tonight).

Once you have the page, and access to it, if you decide you want things changed, I can also do that. But, I would encourage buyers to look into the code used to build their link pages, and see if you can fiddle with changing things yourself (learning is fun!). I have them all setup with the simplest CSS and HTML possible, and if you use a program like VS Code, switching colors around in a CSS file is even easier. And, if you mess things up, I will have a backup of everything I do right here on my PC.

So, come on over, and plant your own garden.