Advice and perspectives from denizens of the small web
While creating this website I created a survey to ask members of the yesterweb community for advice they knew before they began. These are their responses!
If there's one piece of advice you could give to someone starting out, what would it be?
Don't worry about learning everything at once. Just learn the stuff you want to do, when you want to do it.
Any other pieces of advice? how about specific resources?
Have fun be cringe you are free:)
Any final thoughts?
I just think the internet is so cool and useful and incredible and it's a shame what a corporatized hell scape its become:(
If there's one piece of advice you could give to someone starting out, what would it be?
Html and Css are really simple tools that can be used to make really complex things. I would recommend people think of webweaving as a never-ending process of creating a work of living art rather than a finished product. A website is always growing- just like we as people are! While yes coding a website is a tech thing- it’s the blurry line between art and tech where it really shines.
Any other pieces of advice? how about specific resources?
Don’t create with your audience in mind. The modern web has turned us into performers. You want your site to be an extension of yourself- not the other way around. Make it messy- make it silly- who cares if it’s responsive- life is messy- let your site emulate the interior you.
Any final thoughts?
The small web movement isn’t about breaking up corporations- it’s about eliminating the effect of Capitalism on the creative cyber space of the internet. The reason so many small web folks love the Old Web aesthetics is because the Old Web was created by creatives and rarely for any monetary gain or profit. The nostalgia is for an internet where it was a novelty for a corporation to have a website and common for a person to have one. Now it’s a novelty for a person to have a website and a REQUIREMENT for a company to have one.