Making Our Own Websites at Nottinghack
Websites. We love ’em. Hypertext documents sailing across the ether, criss-crossing the globe down gossamer strands of glass and copper. Websites allow us to present ourselves to the world on our own terms, no more and no less. Having your own home on the web is a wonderful thing, and should be no luxury. This early May bank holiday, a dozen members got together to craft a basic website, over half for the first time. Busy hackers making light work of HTML and CSS. Whilst the big four websites fill with screenshots of the other three, a parallel movement works to develop a personal, hand-built web for and by people. Whereas Instagram would confine you to a grid and the whims of an advertiser, a person who can program their own website can put their own photos there, in whatever shape they like, with whatever content they desire (subject to government overreach). What’s more? Anyone can do it! HTML and CSS are simple (not necessarily easy) languages that can be written using in-browser editors and viewers on anything from Windows 11 laptops to Arch-running Thinkpads to an Android