how do you not feel discouraged by like other ppls sites

[JINSBEK]

To be honest, this is something I struggle with daily, and why it's taken me so long to even get my own website site to the point it's at now l--I actually started it three years ago and then abandoned it at that same time, and have only recently resumed work on it in the past week. I see other people's websites, even the very simple ones, and like them so much, that I wonder if I'm doing something wrong with mine: seeing my own doesn't give me the same feelings as seeing everyone else's. Well, my site is still under heavy construction, so of course it's not going to give me the intended feelings...

I've found that when I'm doubting myself, it’s best to remember what I want to share so badly that I made an entire website just to share it! Its own dedicated page, and space, and formatting. When you focus on that, it becomes easy to worry about the "proper" design later, and touch up the CSS as you go. I've started to leave my perfectionism behind and just started pushing things live and just leaving messes in public because at least it's out there. Slowly, but surely, the design is coming together.

[Corrupted Unicorn]

Yeah no, that's a dangerous thought that will only bring you down.

This is not a competition, and if you want to make your website "pretty" you have all the time of the world to figure that out.

Remember, you can make a lot of nifty stuff with humble HTML. Learn that (and CSS), figure out how to apply what you know to what you want to make.

For me, what matters the most is the content, to have whatever you want to say or show out there. It's a PERSONAL site, remember that.

Also, this is Neocities/Nekoweb/The Old Web, not social media. There's no numbers to chase, no trends to follow, no people or algorythms to please. You're creating a site for the things you like and the things you create, and the only person you have to answer to is yourself. This is a very powerful thing. To be able to create something just for you.

I'll link you up to a list of web resources I've been collecting lately, to help you (and anybody reading this  ) with code things. I'm bad at code things too.