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Lordy - I've built so many over the years! Almost all I've learned about coding (since 1990s) has been through playing with personal sites. I'm currently rewrit
by rikroots 7y ago
Lordy - I've built so many over the years! Almost all I've learned about coding (since 1990s) has been through playing with personal sites. I'm currently rewriting my poetry site[1][2] from scratch with new tech, and will be documenting the process on my (resurrected) learning blog[3].
I also built some sites to 'advertise' my Javascript library[4] - but given that nobody in the world uses the library (or if they do, they're not telling me about it) I consider this, too, to be a personal site.
My other big project - building a whole constructed world with maps, languages, histories, etc[5][6][7] - is so 'out there' that I consider it to be "uber-personal" ... and yet this is the site which has led to many of my most important learning experiences (from building databases to designing alien fonts). It's also the site that got me into coding in the first place: if it hadn't been my massive desire to showcase my mad world to the dozen other people in the real world who might be interested in it, I would never have thought about becoming a professional web coder!
[1] - current poetry site - http://rikweb.org.uk/rikverse2012/ http://rikweb.org.uk/rikverse2012/
[2] - new poetry site (very much under construction!) - http://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/ http://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/
[3] - learning blog - https://blog.rikworks.co.uk/ https://blog.rikworks.co.uk/
[4] - Scrawl-canvas library homepage - http://scrawl.rikweb.org.uk/ http://scrawl.rikweb.org.uk/
[5] - Kalieda Encyclopaedia (main site) - http://rikweb.co.uk/kalieda/index.php http://rikweb.co.uk/kalieda/index.php
[6] - (incompleted) Beta site for the Gevey language - http://gevey.rikweb.org.uk/ http://gevey.rikweb.org.uk/
[7] - (incompleted) Beta site for the Ewlah Lands (maps!) - http://lands.rikweb.org.uk/ http://lands.rikweb.org.uk/