Personalized websites and/or Neocities pages?

[ReadeMe]

Got a website for yourself or a Neocities page? Lemme see! I wanna see what you all have made! Even something as small as my little unfinished WIP page lol.

Here is my Neocities page to start things off
At some point im gonna work on it while teaching some friends the bare basics of HTML so they can make some stuff too.

[EdenCoven]

https://edencoven.neocities.org/

We made ours as a blog and place to post fiction we're writing (though we're kinda deep in the planning phase on that atm plus streaming and being sickly has eaten up evenings) and it's very nice to, if nothing else, have a space for long form thoughts that we can just put down in a linkable place. The page is marked for 18+ because we like the freedom to be honest about adult topics but there's not a lot of that

[Cania]

I have a website!

https://cania.zone

it started as a neo cities page but I eventually moved to nearly free speech. it's kind of out of date but still the best place to find links to everything I do.

[linuxavali]

Here's mine. I'm hosting this on my own private VPS.

https://linuxpony.dev

I built this before the plague of 2020, and I have been meaning to give it a face lift, but it serves it's purpose. The image slideshow things are horrendous and I hate them so I am looking forward to ripping them out

[CherryPixelBun]

Here's mine, been something I've chipped away at for a couple years now.
https://cherrypixelbun.gay/

It looks like Web 1.0 because like all my HTML knowledge comes from a book that's a year older than me and I read 15 years ago. I have intentionally doubled down on using as little CSS as possible to help ensure that it looks the same across as many old browsers as possible. The oldest I've tried is whatever version of IE WebTV is based on, both the viewer program on PC as well as the Dreamcast client on Flycast. It even has funny midis if you are on Internet Explorer.

Having a website is pretty fun, I mainly use mine to upload convention photos but I swear I'll use the blog eventually lol

[darkwitchclaire]

here's mine:

https://catwitch.gay/

heavily web 1.0 inspired site with a mostly table based layout based on a friend's site, on webspace with the goals of only using using minimal javascript and no server side scripting. it's also a respository of all the sfw art i commissioned.

[NovaSquirrel]

I've got https://novasquirrel.com/ which I host on a VPS. It mostly showcases things I've made.

I have a wiki at https://wiki.novasquirrel.com/ which was supposed to be a collaborative worldbuilding thing but that didn't really take off, so now it's just kind of sitting there and using a bunch of RAM, so I might eventually get rid of it. I have tried to migrate a lot of the information over to my main site with static web pages.

I have a blog at https://blog.novasquirrel.com/ which I made a year before Cohost shut down, when it had gotten really obvious it wasn't sticking around for much longer; it's supposed to be a place where I can write longer posts for their own sake or to link somewhere else. But I haven't really felt the need to write those lately since I got really comfortable just posting 1000 character posts on the Fediverse; I guess it might be a good idea to clean up some of the big posts from there and turn them into blog posts too.

There's also a second site at https://tilemap.town/ which is a furry roleplaying/chat game where people can use their own character graphics, and players can place tiles to create collaborative pixel art maps with other people to chat and RP in, but which has had a hard time finding its audience. Maybe that deserves its own thread? I feel weird promoting my own stuff sometimes.

[The Green Herring]

https://thegreenherring.neocities.org/

My weird textmode-esque website I've had since 2022, but did a wholescale makeover of last year. There will be a music section with my music once I've figured out the best way to handle it, but you can find all my retro art and games there. The site is intended for users 18 or older, but the most this manifests is in some art pieces which have 18+ content warnings and are age-gated (and most have non-18+ versions provided).

[ReadeMe]

https://edencoven.neocities.org/

We made ours as a blog and place to post fiction we're writing (though we're kinda deep in the planning phase on that atm plus streaming and being sickly has eaten up evenings) and it's very nice to, if nothing else, have a space for long form thoughts that we can just put down in a linkable place. The page is marked for 18+ because we like the freedom to be honest about adult topics but there's not a lot of that

I like! Though its definitely working as a reminder that I need to stop procrastinating working on my own site lol. I'm happy with my little doodled market stall but I planned to have a few different things around.

[Flann]

Gonna throw my site into the ring as well:

https://this.squirrel.rocks/

It's pretty minimalistic, no bells and ribbons or glitter, some might even call it boring x3

I'm currently in the process of porting it to a static site generator but it's slow going due to me only really taking the time to work on that a few hours every other week or so ^^;

[ReadeMe]

I have a website!

https://cania.zone

it started as a neo cities page but I eventually moved to nearly free speech. it's kind of out of date but still the best place to find links to everything I do.

Fun theme! I didn't know about nearly free speech until now, seems like a good option for me to have bookmarked.

[ReadeMe]

Here's mine. I'm hosting this on my own private VPS.

https://linuxpony.dev

I built this before the plague of 2020, and I have been meaning to give it a face lift, but it serves it's purpose. The image slideshow things are horrendous and I hate them so I am looking forward to ripping them out

I love the idea of using a page as a reference for characters. Having the hex codes listed along with spaces for the bios and images is super hekkin cool. I gotta note that down for myself in the future!
The boop page is also nice and fun =P

[ReadeMe]

Here's mine, been something I've chipped away at for a couple years now.
https://cherrypixelbun.gay/

It looks like Web 1.0 because like all my HTML knowledge comes from a book that's a year older than me and I read 15 years ago. I have intentionally doubled down on using as little CSS as possible to help ensure that it looks the same across as many old browsers as possible. The oldest I've tried is whatever version of IE WebTV is based on, both the viewer program on PC as well as the Dreamcast client on Flycast. It even has funny midis if you are on Internet Explorer.

Having a website is pretty fun, I mainly use mine to upload convention photos but I swear I'll use the blog eventually lol

This website is basically IMMORTAL has the vibes I love seeing around NeoCities lol. I even got to see THE Wizard!
I wanna follow your site but cant seem to get to the profile page for it on neocities lol, gets redirected to the actual site. Will just have to remember to look here every now and then.

[ReadeMe]

here's mine:

https://catwitch.gay/

heavily web 1.0 inspired site with a mostly table based layout based on a friend's site, on webspace with the goals of only using using minimal javascript and no server side scripting. it's also a respository of all the sfw art i commissioned.

Very clean and cozy!
I planned on having a section of mine for art I've gotten over the years too, did a quick look-through and big fan of witchy vibes! (certainly couldn't be biased with the whole alchemist thing)
I also just noticed you got the same star background as this sites 1996 style while tabbing between them.

[EdenCoven]

Everyone's site here is delightful.

[ReadeMe]

I've got https://novasquirrel.com/ which I host on a VPS. It mostly showcases things I've made.

I have a wiki at https://wiki.novasquirrel.com/ which was supposed to be a collaborative worldbuilding thing but that didn't really take off, so now it's just kind of sitting there and using a bunch of RAM, so I might eventually get rid of it. I have tried to migrate a lot of the information over to my main site with static web pages.

I have a blog at https://blog.novasquirrel.com/ which I made a year before Cohost shut down, when it had gotten really obvious it wasn't sticking around for much longer; it's supposed to be a place where I can write longer posts for their own sake or to link somewhere else. But I haven't really felt the need to write those lately since I got really comfortable just posting 1000 character posts on the Fediverse; I guess it might be a good idea to clean up some of the big posts from there and turn them into blog posts too.

There's also a second site at https://tilemap.town/ which is a furry roleplaying/chat game where people can use their own character graphics, and players can place tiles to create collaborative pixel art maps with other people to chat and RP in, but which has had a hard time finding its audience. Maybe that deserves its own thread? I feel weird promoting my own stuff sometimes.

!!!!!!TAURS SPOTTED!!!!!!
I liked looking through your characters and reading a bit about your universe. I've also bookmarked tilemap for me to try later with some friends because that sounds super cool. I absolutely think you should make a thread about it. If people aren't aware of it they cant really go try it =P

[ReadeMe]

https://thegreenherring.neocities.org/

My weird textmode-esque website I've had since 2022, but did a wholescale makeover of last year. There will be a music section with my music once I've figured out the best way to handle it, but you can find all my retro art and games there. The site is intended for users 18 or older, but the most this manifests is in some art pieces which have 18+ content warnings and are age-gated (and most have non-18+ versions provided).

The aesthetic is kinda familiar to me but I'm not quite sure to what its reminding me of.
YINGLET LOCATED IN THE ART It's been a while since ive seen a gallery of art like this. It's great to see ANSI art around
Will have to look into the games at some point and looking forward to giving some music a listen!

[CherryPixelBun]

This website is basically IMMORTAL has the vibes I love seeing around NeoCities lol. I even got to see THE Wizard!
I wanna follow your site but cant seem to get to the profile page for it on neocities lol, gets redirected to the actual site. Will just have to remember to look here every now and then.

Yeah I have the profile disabled because I have a bad habit making pages for ideas i have but leaving them unfinished and I need to hide my shame lmao

[ReadeMe]

Gonna throw my site into the ring as well:

https://this.squirrel.rocks/

It's pretty minimalistic, no bells and ribbons or glitter, some might even call it boring x3

I'm currently in the process of porting it to a static site generator but it's slow going due to me only really taking the time to work on that a few hours every other week or so ^^;

Big fan of the URL you're using lol. I think the minimalism is giving its own kinda aesthetic here because of the banner. Site gets the job done and has a little fun fact in there too

[idadeerz]

it's deerzone time

after cohost shut down, i programmed together my own site generator thingie. i started using Obsidian at the time and i really liked that, and i also needed to have some sort of blogging system that i could easily port all my cohost articles over to, so i came up with Deer Text Format.

so all the pages on the website are stored in a Markdown-inspired format with its own additions specific to web design, such as page metadata, divs, custom elements like a search bar and embeds, etc. whenever you load a page, there's some serverside code that automatically converts the text into a functional webpage. it also generates an RSS entry for each page so that you can easily keep an RSS feed running (which i haven't updated in ages because i got anxious about writing posts OOPS)

DTF docs in case you want to know even more

Q: isn't that kinda overkill. why isn't it static
A: i am very good at making PHP parse pieces of text and not very good at figuring out how to make it run standalone and spit out individual html files. that seems like a lot of work and a lot of files to keep track of. also, the search functionality is dynamic as it queries all the .dtf files in a user-specified folder. also like it's 2025 we should embrace web 2.0 and make cool things with it like this, who cares that it Does stuff on a Server

Q: wait. PHP? why PHP?
A: because i know how to use it

Q: can i use this for my own website
A: see i would really like to be able to share the code but i don't trust my abilities as a programmer that much. so it's not public because i am too afraid of sharing extremely crappy code with other ppl. i don't know what could realistically go wrong with it but that's kind of the problem. i mostly made it for myself in the first place. but idk if enough people want this i can start working on making it ready to be released publicly again

[ReadeMe]

it's deerzone time

after cohost shut down, i programmed together my own site generator thingie. i started using Obsidian at the time and i really liked that, and i also needed to have some sort of blogging system that i could easily port all my cohost articles over to, so i came up with Deer Text Format.

so all the pages on the website are stored in a Markdown-inspired format with its own additions specific to web design, such as page metadata, divs, custom elements like a search bar and embeds, etc. whenever you load a page, there's some serverside code that automatically converts the text into a functional webpage. it also generates an RSS entry for each page so that you can easily keep an RSS feed running (which i haven't updated in ages because i got anxious about writing posts OOPS)

DTF docs in case you want to know even more

Q: isn't that kinda overkill. why isn't it static
A: i am very good at making PHP parse pieces of text and not very good at figuring out how to make it run standalone and spit out individual html files. that seems like a lot of work and a lot of files to keep track of. also, the search functionality is dynamic as it queries all the .dtf files in a user-specified folder. also like it's 2025 we should embrace web 2.0 and make cool things with it like this, who cares that it Does stuff on a Server

Q: wait. PHP? why PHP?
A: because i know how to use it

Q: can i use this for my own website
A: see i would really like to be able to share the code but i don't trust my abilities as a programmer that much. so it's not public because i am too afraid of sharing extremely crappy code with other ppl. i don't know what could realistically go wrong with it but that's kind of the problem. i mostly made it for myself in the first place. but idk if enough people want this i can start working on making it ready to be released publicly again

Thats a pretty dang hekkin cool site. Regardless of effort if its working, its working. I think a good bit of the LORE is going over my sleep deprived head but whats getting through sounds pretty impressive. I hardly remember any of the PHP I did learn back when I had my webdev classes.

[idadeerz]

it's deerzone time

after cohost shut down, i programmed together my own site generator thingie. [...]

Thats a pretty dang hekkin cool site. Regardless of effort if its working, its working. I think a good bit of the LORE is going over my sleep deprived head but whats getting through sounds pretty impressive. I hardly remember any of the PHP I did learn back when I had my webdev classes.

i originally started learning PHP a few years ago because kaj used it on her website; specifically she used a lot of the include function and i was like... woah, you can do that with PHP??? just like, grab some code from a different file and put it there??? i do believe she rewrote her website to be entirely HTML at some point. but yeah from there i started looking up stuff on PHP and how it works, because i really wanted to use include to load like the header/footer for my pages. very basic stuff like that, but it was very novel to me at the time. and i kinda just did more and more with it over the years. PHP certainly has its quirks but i like using it!

[NovaSquirrel]

For headers and footers there's a feature in most web servers named "Server-side includes" which will do that without bringing in the cost/complexity of a whole scripting setup; for instance, at the top of my files I've got a

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<!--# set var="page_title" value="Nova's site: Links" -->
<!--# include file="templates/header.html" -->

and nginx will insert everything from templates/header.html with the "page_title" placeholder filled in. Would be nice if free site hosts enabled this.

[beeps]

Ahaha, where to start.

https://beeps.website is my personal website and blog

https://beeps.gay is my links site, the domain also hosts the file dump where a bunch of other random microsites go

https://bloatware.xyz [CONTAINS NSFW] is the website for the headmate that writes stuff, which is itself actually six websites in a trenchcoat

https://bundle.software is the website for our whole system

Also own like a dozen more domain names for side projects but I guess I wouldn't consider those 'personal websites' really.

[linuxavali]

I love the idea of using a page as a reference for characters. Having the hex codes listed along with spaces for the bios and images is super hekkin cool. I gotta note that down for myself in the future!
The boop page is also nice and fun =P

Thanks! yeah I wanted a place I could point to my character info. I tried many other places like toybox but none of them really did exactly what I wanted, so I made my own.