POLL: How many personal sites have you built?

[xandra]

i'm thinking more self-expression/personal/non-commercial here, not any sites you've made professionally if you are a web developer now.

i'll kick mine off with the ones i can remember, listing them out for my own memory, lmao.

- geocities personal website
- angelfire hate site
- MSN medieval themed text roleplay site
- geocities harry potter text adventure game
- geocities horse ownership text adventure game
- geocities vikimouse house site
- lemonade odyssey, my very first website on expage
- /c0cac0lax expage personal site
- hosted blog
- a .nu site i cannot for the life of me remember
- mint-chill.net
- lose-yourself.org
- lose-yourself.org awards
- joygasm.org
- pixel bakery
- miss-behaved.net

[Melooon]

I assume your including past/offline sites to let seeee:

2007 - Project Melon, my first site, hosted on apples free site hosting
2008 - Frog and Wood, site of graphics and cool downloads, the archive is on MK
2009 - I made a site for selling floppy discs, free site hosting
2011 - Meloncraft.com, my minecraft server site, hosted on Amazon s3
2012 - Nonit.me my first personal site, amazon s3
2012 - Total remake of Meloncraft.com
2012 - HANA, novelty project in college, hosted on a university server
2012 - Metrokie, a social network I made with PHP, hosed on Godaddy hosting I think
2013 - Okicraft.com, a website for my later minecraft server, some small paid hosting service
2013 - Okicraft forum, a fully handmade forum written in PHP that connected to minecraft
2014 - LoyLoy, a new website for my 3rd major minecraft community, hosted on DigitalOcean
2014 - Total redesign of Nonit.me using flat ui and bootstrap
2016 - Melonking.net, neocities site
2016 - Okicraft revival site (the community was no longer run by me but I did a site for it), code reused on my "Stuff" page on MK
2016 - GifyPet, neocities site
2017 - Daniels Network Search, search engine written in Java - Redesigned and converted to NodeJS in 2021
2018 - Total remake of nonit.me - Code later reused on games section of MK
2019 - Mini portfolio site that was latter scrapped
2020 - SnortStudio, later scrapped and features became MelonEngine/first Ozwomp game
2020 - Ozwomp.net, later scrapped and features rolled back into Melonking.net
2021 - MoMG, neocities gif gallery
2021 - Total remake of nonit.me

I think that's all of them! I included remakes that were big enough count as a new site, but left out modification jobs like this forum that were based on existing code.

[cinni]

hmm, these are all i could remember having :-p i think i had more than one freewebs site but can't remember what it was called u_u..

→ freewebs.com/watermelony - i think my earliest personal site circa 2006. no trace of it exists :'(

→ a wix site i made in 2018 before i joined neocities (an entrance or exit prototype)

→ cinni.net - my first site on neocities, a personal site in the style of early web pixel layouts

→ entranceorexit.net - my virtual gallery project!

→ 99gifshop.neocities.org - my most recent side project

→ & my artist portfolio

[Melooon]

→ freewebs.com/watermelony - i think my earliest personal site circa 2006. no trace of it exists :'(

A long lost melon site! Great intrigue and mystery is afoot

[cinni]

→ freewebs.com/watermelony - i think my earliest personal site circa 2006. no trace of it exists :'(

A long lost melon site! Great intrigue and mystery is afoot

WAIT i LIED, i swear i looked through the web archive many times but somehow found a deadlink on my old deviantart account and long story short, here's some traces of it saved on the archive: https://web.archive.org/web/*/http://www.freewebs.com/watermelony//* just some warrior cats .bmp files, like this uber 2006-era furry drawing dfsdgd



i'm super bummed not more of it has been saved (and it was archived in 2013, does that mean i couldve saved it all those years ago if i just had the foresight?? :-o) but i havent seen this art in forever, so either way im glad a *tiny* bit survived.

also, browsing through my deviantart account made me find my OG neopets account, and the fact that i sometimes used the username 'cinnimelon' haha

[cinni]

okay, another update because yes i did infact have another freewebs site. it was 'cinnikitty' and i only know this because i posted about it on my old deviantart account. in fact, here was a layout i made for it in july 2006

[xandra]

i love seeing these lists! what an amazing find, cinni!!!

[Nightdrift]

Dang! Y'all have a lot of sites under your belts
I was never savvy enough to publish any sites early on; I think I got my start coding and making (very crappy) graphics for a (very goofy) knockoff Neopets site...I think I did not end up publishing this one, because at that time I had thought current web hosting platforms were 'too janky' for my clearly 'high-cultured work'. I don't know who I was kidding. Wish I could find some images, but I'm pretty sure they all died with that computer. I really loved using tables for a lot of things then lmao.

My list is not very extensive, probably only really six proper sites under my belt, but here we are:

2000? - Neopets Knockoff Site (never published)
2010-present - Art Blog hosted on a blogging site (I'm still using this one, but I don't really...count it as a personal site I built, I did upend a bit of the theming code and tried to break as much as I could along the way with the intent of making the place cozier with limited success >: P)
2013-2016 - Portfolio Site I (abandoned pretty quickly, with very negligible maintenance over those three years (mostly just updating images) ._.)
2016-present - Portfolio Site II (reluctant upkeep on this one, I guess it's more of a "professional" account, I wouldn't really count it)
2019 - Personal Blog hosted on a blogging site with a theme I actually really liked making... (abandoned after...I think three months lol)
2021 - Explorable/Personal Site on NeoCities (currently most used/edited, I would like for this one to essentially be my main home on the web)
2021 - Game Dev Blog on NeoCities (currently in use, though updated on a whim)
2021 - Experimental Art Site on another web building/hosting site (slow work in progress, mostly an experiment trying other sites outside of NeoCities)*

Up until recently, I was pretty bad at maintaining sites, making and ditching portfolios, and setting up a non-social media blog site that I had a lot of hope for, but ever since I started using NeoCities and puttering around its communities, I've been a lot more happy to keep up with site maintenance. It's definitely a passion I'm rediscovering, and it's hard not to just...want to make a million sites now LOL.

*As much as I enjoy NeoCities, I have a very small nitpick with the fact that every update I make immediately bumps it onto the "latest updated" page...I feel like I make too many minute tweaks for that, and it personally doesn't feel right to me to have it broadcasted like that so readily (maybe it's a bit of a strange pressure, even though I think people are updating their pages enough that updates quickly get pushed down in the list). If this site builder ends up feeling okay (which right now, it's not looking so great compared to NeoCities), I'd like for it to specifically be more of an extra-curated gallery of artworks, and a chiller place to be modifying/experimenting with things constantly.

Also @cinni I FELT those images in my bones...truly art which represent the spirit of the times.

[Icey!]

I currently only have 2, one was for a school project (I am mentioning it because there were no restrictions on what to put and I made it myself), the other is my Neocities site!

[Kutan]

I had a webpage I made that was just a guide to Final Fantasy 7's chocobo minigame, and it got a decent number of hits! I actually hosted it through my ISP (was getting free webspace from your ISP a normal thing back then?), but once my ISP got devoured, my web page did too. Awww. It didn't get archived, but I've been able to find other pages that link to it, so at least there's some record of it having existed!

[Darmodej]

only 1
and i guess you could call it more of a 0.5 because its several disconnected novelty pages 1 2 3
(first one should be playing weezer but it only works like half of the time. i should use something other than an invisible youtube embed)

[PurpleHello98]

Not counting Blogspot blogs:

-11-year-old me's bad Weebly page
-13-year-old me's site on some obscure free Web host, that's somehow still up
-14-year-old me's half-finished Britney Spears fan-site on Neocities
-A memorial page for someone I looked up to
-My present site that I've had for a few years now

[appleAlc]

I've really only made three, my personal one, one I made for a friend who soon abandoned it, and one I made for a school essay project to put those on. If we count the class in web design I'm taking right now, that bumps it up to ten(as of now), but arguably only up to six. (only three so far have been like. my own projects and not just follow the directions from the textbook)

[debleb]

just debleb.fun myself. i’ve started a few others but that’s my only site i’ve really done anything in.

[Guest]

Throughout my entire life? I think, like, four or five. One was a "professional" site that never saw any use because I was still a school kid, one was a content creator site that I stopped using when I felt like giving up content creation, then I had a "new" professional minimalist site that I shut down this year, and Libre Town, which is my magnum opus. If you count the first version of Libre Town and perhaps one or two sites I missed, five.

Plus, like, what counts as a personal site? I have certainly had little blogs and stuff here and there that might or might not qualify.