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Discussion on: Should you build personal website?

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Chris James • Edited

Personal website demands wide range of skills to make it feel good. Design, hosting or cloud, programming, search optimization, accessibility features, structural and linked content. More you know, more it feels as a heavy budgeted and time consuming Project. Oh, and I missed legal stuff like data collection, terms and conditions... you name it.

You're over-complicating things :)

You 100% don't need all that stuff to start with a website. Heroku and the like make it relatively easy to ship a website for free. SEO? Who cares? Im honestly not that fussed if people see my site or not (which is why there is no analytics).

It's akin to waterfall project management, convincing yourself you need absolutely everything under the sun to release something useful.

The beauty of your own website is you can do 100% what you want to do with it. It's supposed to be fun! If you want to do all that stuff you listed go for it, but just release something basic to get yourself going and then iterate on it.

My website didn't take a lot of time at all to make initially and has just been slowly iterated on... as i feel like it. I've changed its look dozens of times over the years on a whim.

I guess it was my youngster dream, where tech wasn't that advanced. Unfortunately for me the tech overgrown my dream.

This is all in your head. You can still build websites out of HTML and CSS.

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exbe

Yes, mine is just a pointer with few bits.

This is all in your head.

You nailed it I think.