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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.
@xianc78 I was thinking about neocities too, because at least for now all I really want is a static website.
@beardalaxy You can still host a static-site on HelioHost, but it also provides email hosting, which is nice, imo.
@beardalaxy I would also like to add that a lot of people use something like PHP just to be able to include a navigation bar or a footer that they can update without updating every single page of the site. Granted, you can do the same thing with a static-site using JavaScript, but it will run client-side, meaning that it won't appear if the client has JS disabled.
@otokonoko @beardalaxy I'm well aware of static-site generators, but I want to keep things simple for beard. If anything, I could write a basic PHP application for him. If it is done through something like Jekyll, he would have to constantly use the command-line which might be tedious for him. (Note that he is an RPG Maker dev) And you also have to still reupload the modified version of every page even with a static site generator. Having a server-side script for things like a navigation bar and/or footer means that only one file needs to be reuploaded.
@xianc78@gameliberty.club @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club what? no, you don't have to constantly use the command line. just push the code to GitHub and use GitHub Pages in that case. can't be any harder than coding the site manually and uploading to Neocities---especially given VSCodium has fantastic support for git and can integrate with version control even without using the command line. in any case, i was just offering suggestions. it's fine if he chooses to do it another way, to be sure.
@xianc78@gameliberty.club @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club not that i recommend GitHub, of course, but if we're talking about ease with which a given tool can be used, Neocities offers an illusion of ease compared to CI/CD paired with a static site builder. and there are more censorship-resistant git providers such as GitGud that offer CI/CD in any case.
@xianc78@gameliberty.club @beardalaxy@gameliberty.club better to use client-side code than rely on PHP server-side imo, but admittedly i hate PHP.
also: there's no reason updating multiple pages of a static site would mandate multiple code changes. static site generators like Jekyll and Hugo (among others) provide templating languages for this purpose, and these also tend to drastically reduce the amount of HTML one needs to write by hand.