How would you go about a low maintenance personal website today? (lemm.ee)

submitted 11 months ago by ALostInquirer@lemm.ee to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

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It seems like there's a lot of ways to go about this that may be overkill, so I'm curious which may avoid that.

Low maintenance in this context is aiming for moderate technical knowledge/setup, lower cost, and portability in case you need to migrate your site and so minimal hassle in that process.

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[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 40 points 11 months ago

Plain-ass HTML with nothing but text.

[-] Valmond@lemmy.mindoki.com 5 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

Went down that road

Edit: I know how to put a link and a description, it's square brackets and parentheses, plus the link and the text. It's always the eight try that's the right one.

[-] kalkulat@lemmy.world 4 points 11 months ago

Text's good. But I like a good, carefully-chosen image now and then. Sets the mood, illustrates some aspect of the topic, adds some flavor.

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 4 points 11 months ago

Yep, I mainly used Deviantart as a quick way to move photos from home to external computers to quickly show them to others.

I have used Deviantart for 20 years or so, but this year, I got pissed off for the last time, it is just so slow, it takes ages to browse a gallery.

So I spent a few days building a menu in HTML and CSS that has a few simple effects, and importantly is easy to update, I then uploaded that to a personal webhost, and started creating HTML galleries with digiKam, uploading them there, and updating the menu.

I want to preserve my privacy, so I won't link the site here, but if others are interested, I should be able to share the code of the menu system.

[-] Chickenstalker@lemmy.world 2 points 11 months ago

So...Geocities?

[-] stoy@lemmy.zip 0 points 11 months ago

I doubt that I could have built a menu like I did in Geocities or even in CSS at that time.

[-] liv@lemmy.nz 3 points 11 months ago

This and put it on neocities.

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