Published: October 18, 2023
Modified: February 28, 2024
Duration: 2 min
Words: 305
Having a personal website can be very useful for so many people. Such people includes programmers, athletes, doctors etc.
Let’s get into details.
This is self explanatory. You'll have a public IP address and people can access your page online.
You exist on the Internet.
Depending on what your profession is, you may show your work on your site. As well as you can utilize SEO to get more visibility if that is what you want.
You content you upload, there's little restriction to that. You can host anything you want. Nobody can tell you that your content is against their terms of service.
Anyway we need to be responsible and do what is good.
You will learn how things work. Having knowledge on how to create a small static site is not bad.
Follow the simple steps.
Learn HTML from MDN. It will take around 20 – 30 minutes to learn the basics. Create a simple index.html and put some basics stuff like bio, hobby or anything like mail.
Now you have to host it somewhere. Use many freely available services like github, gitlab, netlify etc to host. Just google how to serve an static site with [github/netlify/..] and you will find wonderful guide and tutorials. Maybe it will take around 30 mins.
And now you have a site for yourself.
One final note, there are many ways to create static site, some of them don't require any coding at all or very little. If that is what you want you can search for CMS or static site generator etc. Still, starting from scratch can be very beneficial.