It’s my opinion we should do more ourselves. We should program. We should blog. We should do just about anything, as long as it involves technical things. I believe it’s important to gain experience and to learn by doing something oneself. I also believe that there is a danger in always looking for quick fixes without understanding why a fix works or what a proper solution would be.
One simple way is to build a website oneself. Over the years I have learned quite a lot about the internet, hosting, protocols and the web from this beautiful hobby. It’s a good thing to have at least a grasp of HTML and how hypertext has influenced the concept of an open weg from the beginning. Hosting one’s own website gives independence from the whims of larger platforms and keeps the own work accessible outside of walled gardens. These walled gardens are created by big tech companies on purpose to harvest work done by users and to profit from it.
Maybe you need a bit of inspiration. What, if the web would be something of which you own a part? Where you are not just visiting or a tenant? Robert Doiel explores these themes in his article about »a simple web we own.
Oh, and please, please (!) don’t build webpages that are just big. No videos in the background, please! No very large pictures, unless you are a photographer or a film maker, of course. I mean, there are webpages out there which are »a whopping 49 MB large!
Please focus on real content. Things you want the world to know.
Why not start today? A very simple way to start is to learn some HTML and CSS (for layout and colors). How about you start today by reading a bit in the »W3schools’ introduction or »SELFHTML in German?