POLL: How many personal sites have you built?

[xXWebMasterXx_Gina]

You could create 5 or 6 websites.. or just one!    I've technically created a few "sites" prior to Melvin's World! but these were all just offline files I used to experiment with HTML and CSS before I made the big step to going live.

My ethic is that a personal website is dynamic and grows with the webmaster. If I have a new idea that's completely different from the rest of the site; I just toss it in somewhere and create a sort of labyrinth that rewards exploration. If I don't like something, I could rework it, bury the page (no direct link to it), or just delete the page itself. But make a new site completely? Not a fan of the idea. Still, Never say never y'know? I've only been a formal webmaster for 3ish years.

Here's a brain teaser for ya: What if I renamed my site? Or, what if I changed my host from Neocities to something else? Is it still the same site?

[shapezncolourz]

just the one so far, though i do intend on making a portfolio site for showing to people in real life! :3

[candycanearter07]

only one, my neocities account.. unless you count making websites for school? but yea i didn't start making that site until 2022, when i tried to start my first blog which only has like 5 entries (though its still up on the current neocities site i think) then i started using it for my comic since i was inspired to start the comic thing on usenet which doesnt let me upload pictures, then i joined a webring which pushed me into the actual web creation thing more and now im here

also heres one of the things i made for school :) (had to bitcrush it bc phone images are megabytes)

[WK_0]

Counting only the ones I've had go live? About three. Two of them were a single domain that I launched in 2009 as a young college student, coded with HTML and CSS basically as my main art site. I revamped its design completely enough in 2011 to count it as a new site, as I got better at coding. It's not live anymore, thankfully.

The third site is still available at quantumtrinket.neocities.org, but I've completely set it on ice since 2022, so for now all you'll see is an ACCESS DENIED page I made. Before then, I intended to make that space for any stories I made for the OCTs I was a part of at the time (OCT = Original Character Tournament, a competition where you competitively write stories of your characters pitted against others' characters for an in-universe grand prize or goal). Though the front page isn't there anymore, technically there's a section I still have on that site. I coded all the pages, myself, credited as QuantumTrinket which is an alt pen name of mine (warning, the character pages are heavy on the CSS, I was very inspired by the likes of Heckscaper.com's character pages and IIII tried to emulate their style kinda badly).

Counting any sites that didn't go live/have yet to? I've made 4 sites. The one that currently isn't live is a personal creative site I'm hoping to spruce up and push out as my main web presence. It's partly done so far as life stuff ended up happening and, like with my QuantumTrinket site, I've had to put it on ice for a while. With things stabalising now, I'm hoping to start picking at it again so I have someplace to put all the stuff I'm making.

[Memory]

alrighty
2021
dight - my first published website. i updated it for a while but eventually abandoned it after i made my next personal site. i made a couple sites beforehand at school but never published them. i'm pretty sure they're lost to time. :( however, i do still have the files to some site i created by exporting to html in word. yes... word.
2023
splashy - on August 9th, i created a new personal website. i've continued to update it. it's been trough many changes, including a massive visual overhaul and some layout changes.
A Tribute to Zeppelin Wars - single page retrospective site on the Roblox game Zeppelin Wars
i love bill jensen - joke fanpage about Bill Jensen, a Christian streamer known for his reactions to trolling.
2024
agoraphillic - collaborative site for Agora Road's Macintosh Cafe users
splashy's code snippets and stuff - a dump for websites i don't really care for and random bits of website code. everything there's under the MIT license btw, feel free to steal as much code as you need.
swagilicous - a site i was making with a friend but i never finished due to... things.
THAT'S IT... for now. i ALWAYS come back...

[cozy]

At the moment I just have one, and I don't have any others planned (though I may have potential second idea for the future).

But in the mid 2000s I did enjoy making websites so if we count those, it's at a bit more. I'm pretty sure it's above that, because I recall making quite a few in the Piczo and Freewebs days.

I started with Piczo's drag-and-drop site maker. Though I now enjoy building my website from scratch, I kind of miss those days! It was fun to be able to drag things wherever I wanted, and a good way to be creative. They even supplied shoutboxes and guestbooks, and later added a community graphics center. They kind of turned into somewhat of a blogging platform near the end but I enjoyed the earlier Piczo. I've had at least 2 sites there but it was probably more than that!

When I moved to Freewebs, I just used templates and edited the colors. I didn't stay there long but I believe I had at least 2 sites there at different times (neither lasted very long).

After that, I had wanted to make a proper website but I just wasn't sure where to start with HTML and CSS, so I had put it off for years. Now I'm glad I've started to make this old dream come true!

[Turboblack]

if you count what is not for me, but on order - hundreds, if you count what is for me - dozens

[pencilz]

Ages ago I had a fanmade Pokemon roleplay site. It's no longer on the web.

Right now I technically just have my main Pencilz.art site which doubles as a personal site and a portfolio of all my projects so it's kinda professional but not really?

I also have my sub-sites for my webcomics but those are under the same domain so I guess they don't really count.

[AY38910]

http://ay38910.fwh.is (only kept around for Old Shit BBS nowadays (yes that's the actual forum name, "old shit")) and https://ay-3-8910-online.w10.site (current website)

[KiwiMeowo]

I have one on Neocities (my main one) and another on Nekoweb (just for aesthetic stuff). As a hobbyist, just one website is enough to do everything I want to.

Actually if you count the one that I made on 000webhost back in secondary school as homework, it would be a total of 3. But since it's so long ago, it got deleted from inactivity.

[Memory]

i don't have heaps of personal sites :P though i think my earliest was from ~2020-2021, when i was a tweenager/early teen.

though (so far anyways, some don't exist anymore/are dead etc lol)

• cynderthekitsune.neocities.org - my first dominantly hand-coded site, now it just redirects to my Nekoweb
• negativenews.neocities.org - me being immature yet again and deciding to make a parody
• archivedoldinternetstuff.neocities.org - this is a mini archive, it's not really consistent, though it's mostly just full of stuff i haven't yet (or at least at the time) seen archived yet. almost all of the videos are from YouTube.
• cynderthekitsune.nekoweb.org - my most recent site, made this year!
• artgallerystuffz.neocities.org - my art gallery
• status.cafe/users/thiskitsuneexists - not exactly a full personal site, but i wanted to include it anyway :P

if we're counting DeviantArt/Tumblr, i had a fair few, though i never really ended up using them... now i don't even use Tumblr especially, and DeviantArt either

edit: remembering more sites now, i did remember trying my hand at Google Sites and Carrd at some points, though i didn't get very far with those.
i think the earliest was probably a Google Sites thing in my early high school (or even an attempt in 2019) but that's all extremely vague, i'm not too sure exactly what or when.
but the Carrd site, i remembered using an alternate email (a burner email basically) for it, but i didn't get very far in it either :P

it would've been a Google Sites site, then a couple attempted Carrd sites, then my old Neocities site, then my Negative News (a news parody) Neocities site, my mini archive site (on Neocities), my new personal site on Nekoweb, and my art gallery on Neocities also.
soo that's about like 8 sites! 

[boreal_cryptid]

i made a few, but some of them deleted or moved already due to my social anxiety. for the moment i have 5. and 2 of them are super private, while other 3 are semi-public. if not anxiety, i would probably have only 1 or 2, maybe just with healthy separation between work and personal stuff. but unfortunately-- yeah. i hope one day i would connect some of them properly and not be so paranoid¹ about it.

¹more like "with paranoid tendencies", because i don't have a literal symptom.

[prismaticpink]

I had dozens of blogs and some forums (I created my first blog in 2004 when I was only 8 lol), but it's my third time with a personal website. I do not remember the URL of the first one (it was circa 2005/2006), I just know that I worked my ass off with iframes and got tired of it. The second one was at Webs.com, with a premade layout. Now I finally have my self-hosted website with my own domain! (:

[Dan Q]

Wow, it's gonna be hard to enumerate! And some of them sort-of bleed-into one another, kinda, which makes it a bit fuzzy?

Many are dead now, but let's see if I can enumerate them:

Pre-blog personal sites

1. "The Castle", circa 1996, hosted on CompuServe Pages. Web 1.0 at it's most-Web-1.0, it had GIFs, poetry, shrines to stuff I was into, video game references, and so many spelling mistakes.

My primary blog

2. "Castle of the Four Winds", evolved out of The Castle, lived at castle.onza.net; more of the same, but from September 1998 it hosted my first blog. I didn't know the word "blog" yet though so I called it a "diary". Some of the posts still survive on my current blog!

3. AvAngel.com; a vanity domain I shared with a friend but which ultimately became just-mine after he lost interest. Hosted jokes, purity tests, and a continuation of my blog until...

4. "Scatmania - The Life And Times Of Scatman Dan" was the first domain I bought exclusively for the purpose of hosting a blog. Launched in 2003 at http://scatmania.org/, I still own the domain but now it just redirects-on to the equivalent content on...

5. DanQ.me - now we're getting to "still living" sites: this has been my primary online presence since 2012. In 2018 I wrote a piece looking at my primary blog's history so-far, at that point, with lots of super retro screenshots!

(I don't like my current design: it feels flat and boring and "safe"; I'm working on a new one that tries to be more wacky and experimental and "Web 1.0 is back, baby!", but it's probably going to be a 2026 project at current rates...)

Definitely-personal sites and silly little projects

6. WeWillRock.EU was a silly domain hack in 2019 that animated a European "star" to the drum beat of We Will Rock You by Queen. I lost the domain when my country left the European Union and so I became ineligible to renew it, boo!

7. NonStopHammerTi.me was a similar stupid project; this one showed a hammer bouncing to a repeating two bars of Can't Touch This by MC Hammer.

8. Abnib was an Aberystwyth-based blogger collective and community weblog I was part of, but I'm now almost the only one of us that still blogs - when it started in 2003 it was a lot more active! Nowadays the site just reminds the former members when one another's birthdays are, although it does continue to host the archives of spinoff sites like...

...9. JenGetBackTo.Work - another domain hack; when my friend Jen was finishing her PhD and blogged that she needed people to constantly remind her to stop procrastinating, I secretly reached out to many of her friends and family and had them record short videos that would be played in a random order when you went to the site: the videos would nag her to "get back to work!" It was a wonderful project.

...10. RockMonkey was a community wiki that I ran for the Abnib folks. The archives are still downloadable from that domain; it also gives away throwaway junkmail addresses now.

...11. Mattify was a tool that made meme-like images for that community.

12. Axe Feather 2021 was my effort to recreate using modern Web technologies a Flash-based advert I saw once back in 2004.

13. Text/Plain Blog is a sideblog I write entirely through the medium of plain text. It's actually broken right now owing to some domain-related problems but I'll get it fixed at some point.

14. Find Dan Q is broken by the same issue: it's a tool that GPS-tracks me anywhere on Earth. The location gets "fuzzed" a lot (so much that you can barely tell what county I'm in at any given time!) if you're not authenticated, though. But it lets me track my location for years at a time and do interesting graphs and maps.

15. The Green is the website for my house. It helps stop deliverypeople getting lost.

16. DNDlemy Dungeons & Dragons-themed Wordle clone

17. The Levellers, currently on hiatus, a blog I ran about a Dungeons & Dragons campaign I was in

18. Dionysus Unbound, a short-lived "after dark" blog I ran about sex and relationships

19. Trrtl.com, a Logo Turtle game I made that you programmed in CoffeeScript

20. EGXchange.org, a cryptocurrency exchange I launched but actually it's an implementation of Emma GoldCoin, a currency for people who hate cryptocurrencies

21. Break Into Us, a lockpicking puzzle game I made

So I think my score is probably 21+ and I've voted accordingly. There are definitely personal sites I've missed, like sarcastic server infrastructure describers Big McLargeHuge and FatBeast, fortune-teller Ask Anya/Ask Andy... Drunk When I Bought This, a community weblog I never got off the ground about stupid drunk purchases... Q-T-A, a wiki for and about my family... AngelPlanet.net, a circa 2001 site where my friends and I wrote stories about an apocalypse...

Maybe-personal sites

Some things I didn't include in the list above because I think they might not "count" as personal?

22. BBC News Without The Crap, my site hosting "fixed" versions of the increasingly-terrible news RSS feeds from BBC News; even though I'm the first and perhaps biggest user, it's not very "personal"

23. FreeDeedPoll.org.uk is probably the second-most-important thing I've given away for free to the world: it's a website full of resources to hels British citizens change their legally-recognised names without a solicitor.

24. Change Your Star Sign probably should count though: it's a slightly sillier site cut from the same cloth

Anyway... definitely 21+ for sure...

[cinnamuff]

How many personal sites.... I've only had the one personal site that's been evolving for nearly 5 years now, but in terms of sites in general- I think I've built 5 so far! There's my main personal site, my worldbuilding site (which is really a subdomain of my personal), there's also the sites I built for my webcomics, Star Quest and Caltonia (the latter which is on indefinite hiatus, but the former is currently updating!!), and the last being a portfolio site I ended up deleting after archiving it. I've thought about bringing it back just to have a professional portfolio, but I think I'm good at the moment hahaha