Want your own website but not sure how to start? Read this for options for every level of coder, from no-code to fullstack and completely free to paid.
No code, free to paid You can use a WYSIWYG (What You See Is What You Get) site builder like Carrd to create a simple single page site, like a list of links to some of your projects or a few of your portfolio pieces.
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How to write good documentation What would you keep track of in a personal CHANGELOG? When choosing your new product name, you can save yourself a lot of grief by asking, “What would this sound like if someone verbed it?” If you’re trying to turn on GitHub Pages for a Hugo theme repository, the configuration files in your theme might make GitHub Pages (Jekyll, really) confused. I successfully got GitHub Pages to serve the site using the README.md after adding a _config.yml file for Jekyll with:
exclude: ["exampleSite", "theme.toml"] Here’s the thing. The thing. It’s a powerful thought, though it sneaks by quietly at first. Give it a little room to expand in your mind. When you get, you can feel it.
You will do precisely what you decide to do with your life. If LiveJournal and GitHub Pages had a baby, it would… wait no… okay if Myspace custom CSS and Twitter had a baby… no that’s not right… okay if Twitter and Geocities had a baby…