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alright if it's game updates you want and don't want to deal with the rest of my bullshit then follow @aftermidnight okay? okay.
@beardalaxy @aftermidnight I still need to a find a name for my one man studio.
Anyway, if you need a website, I could help write an HTML template.
@xianc78 @aftermidnight hey I appreciate that man, thanks! I'll let you know if I need help. When the time comes I think I'll be able to make my own though :) I THINK lol.
@beardalaxy @aftermidnight For the love of God, please don't use drag-and-drop shit like Wix, Weebly, or SquareSpace. Though Wordpress.com might be okay if you want a blog-style site (it's just a host that uses Wordpress as a back-end).
If you want a free-host that actually allows you to use HTML, there is NeoCities and HelioHost. NeoCities only supports static websites (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript), but HelioHost supports server-side scripting, so you can even include things like forums or wikis if you wanted to. It also provides email hosting, so you can have an email address with your site's (sub)-domain. I would recommend HelioHost just for the email feature alone, but it's one of those services that requires you to login every few weeks or they will terminate your account.
@xianc78 I was initially thinking of just going from scratch and making a really dead-simple site, maybe even self-hosting it for the lulz. I saw that porkbun offers a pretty dang good deal where you can pay $4/month for weebly hosting though. Normally it's quite a bit more than that. Is there a good reason beyond "it's a big stupid company" that I shouldn't use weebly?
I'll look into helio though for sure.
@beardalaxy I just don't like how these drag and drop hosts add unnecessary bloat. They add JavaScript from big-tech sites like Google and Facebook and in some cases, disabling them will make the site unviewable.
@beardalaxy I think it's better not to have that stuff at all. Blocking scripts is kind of a band-aid solution. Yeah, embeds need those scripts but that's more of the exception rather than the rule. Weebly even uses Google Fonts when the default web fonts are all you ever need.
Didn't you say that you learned HTML in high school? I know that Weebly does have an HTML editor, but from what I can tell, the editors on those sites only edit the body. Why not just use something like NeoCities or Heliohost instead? The only reason I could see why was the blog.
@xianc78 yeah weebly does have an html editor, you can do a pretty decent amount of stuff with it. I removed the footer and replaced it with my own so there's no weebly branding at all even though I don't pay for it xD
It fits my needs, more or less. I definitely could code a simple website, but I'm already late on actually making my game and I'm a solo dev so I just want to take an easier route most likely xD
@beardalaxy I just need some experience to put on my resume (preferably back-end included).
@xianc78 my current weebly site seems to work without scripts perfectly fine, actually. It's very simple. Obviously embeds don't work but that's to be expected. The rest of the site works just fine.