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Pixel Shannon

@pixelshannon.com
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Early Millenial trying to share wisdom. Testing Bluesky domain handles and encouraging people to make websites. www.pixelshannon.com Main: @shannonkay.com Make Your Own Website! yourownwebsite.org

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Shannon Kay @shannonkay.com · 01/09/2026
Did you know about the special characters for degrees° Fahrenheit and Celsius, ℉ and ℃ ? blog.shannonkay.com/2026/08-2... #Degrees #Unicode #BlogPost #Blogging #Blaugust
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Writing Weather With Special Characters for Degrees
Recently, I was entering the weather for a blog post. I just type my weather in manually when I want to include it. It was for a review of a book that took place in a region where they use Celsius, so I decided to include my current weather in Fahrenheit and Celsius. In the Apple Weather app, I tapped the option to change between Fahrenheit and Celsius. It was then that I noticed that ℉ and ℃ were not just a regular F and C with the degree° sign symbol, but their own unicode special character. Degree Characters Degree...
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 20/08/2026
Have you created a new website on Neocities, Nekoweb, or elsewhere, and don't know what to put on it or do with it? Read this great blog post from James! 100 Things you can do on your personal website jamesg.blog/2024/02/19/p...
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100 things you can do on your personal website - with words, wonder
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cowsites @cowsites.net · 19/08/2026
this month's newsletter is on the 'old web' aesthetic and resources on exploring online spaces that still feel whimsical and like the web that wasn't full of notifications and expectations. are there any topics you'd liek to see explored within this? =] #oldweb #newsletter #cowsites
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Shannon Kay @shannonkay.com · 19/08/2026
Today, while browsing through the Way Back Machine on Internet Archive, I stumbled upon an old website that I had made. This was almost certainly my first "professional" website, and I believe I made it in the year 2000 when I was sixteen. blog.shannonkay.com/2026/08-1... #OldWeb #Blaugust
Screenshot of a website with the title: Run With The Best. It is an old website with a blue and yellow color scheme that uses iframes.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 17/08/2026
The Gravatar profiles have a custom domain option that I might test out as a review(if I find time!). There's no connecting domain names you already have, but they are giving 1 year of domain registration for free, and have something built in for using it as a custom domain Bluesky handle.
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Shannon Kay @shannonkay.com · 13/08/2026
The perfect storm was created with The Beths playing on my husband's birthday right in our own county. We didn't even have to drive to Los Angeles! #TheBeths #Concerts #LiveMusic #BlogPost #Blaugust #Blogging
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The Beths Concert
We saw The Beths in concert. After seeing The Beths twice in 2023, we’ve had tickets to two other concerts that we didn’t make it to because of complications with our kids. This year, the perfect storm was created with The Beths playing on my husband, Jerrod,’s birthday right in our own county. We didn’t even have to drive to Los Angeles! For merch, we both got Straight Line Was a Lie t-shirts, and I got a tote bag and sticker! We took a selfie before the show started. It was actually a double headliner show show with Beach Bunny,...
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Shannon Kay @shannonkay.com · 09/08/2026
Happy HTML Day! Maybe you don't have time to write a whole HTML document today. That's ok. Let's write the HTML for a link! Link to your website or any website you want. <a href="https://make.yourownwebsite.org">Make Your Own Website</a> #HTMLDay2026 #HTML #HTMLDay #SmallWeb #Websites
Linking
Linking pages and websites together is what makes the internet a network. The HTML for creating links is an <a>(anchor) tag with an attribute called href.

Writing a link in HTML looks like this.
<a href="about.html">About</a>

The a tag has an opening and closing, just like the other tags we've been using. The text between the tags is what will show on the page for users to click(or tap) to follow the link. In this example, I'm linking to a file called "about.html" and my link's text will say "About". The file needs to be in the same folder as the page I'm putting the link on for it to work with just the file name like this. 

If the file is in a subfolder, include the path like this.
<a href="about/index.html">About</a>

And when you're linking to different website, be sure to include the full url like this.

<a href="https://web.pixelshannon.com">Make Your Own Website</a>

(From Make Your Own Website at https://yourownwebsite.org by Shannon Kay at Pixel Shannon)
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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
HTML Day 2026 is tomorrow ❇️ 2026.html.energy Start your text editors !
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HTML Day 2026
HTML Day is on August 8th, 2026!
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 08/08/2026
I've tested another new small web website hosting option. How to host your website on pages.gay Part of git.gay, and run by @besties.house yourownwebsite.org/freehosts/#p... #WebHost #PersonalSites #SmallWeb #IndieWeb #FreeWebHost
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Testing Free Website Hosts (Pixel Shannon)
I'm checking out free hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites. I test free web hosts and document my results, often with mini tutorials. I wanted to know what to recommend to ...
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 08/08/2026
New web hosting test added to my site! Hosting your website for free on Vercel. yourownwebsite.org/freehosts/#v... #WebHost #PersonalSites #FreeWebHost #StaticHost
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Testing Free Website Hosts (Pixel Shannon)
I'm checking out free hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites. I test free web hosts and document my results, often with mini tutorials. I wanted to know what to recommend to ...
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WebDesignMuseum @webdesignmuseum.org · 06/08/2026
Happy 35th Birthday The World's First Website! On August 6, 1991, the World Wide Web (WWW) creator, Tim Berners-Lee launched the world’s first website. #InternetHistory
The world's first website in 1991
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Shannon Kay @shannonkay.com · 06/08/2026
Happy 35th birthday to the World Wide Web! And to the first website; Published August 6, 1991. #WWW35 #WWW #WorldWideWeb #InternetHistory
info.cern.ch
The World Wide Web project
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 27/07/2026
Hosting your website for free with Netlify Drop yourownwebsite.org/freehosts/#n... Update: A test of Netlify Drop has been added to my free website hosts page. Great choice for using a custom domain name! Fast and easy to upload your site with drag and drop. #WebHost #PersonalSites #FreeWebHost
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Testing Free Website Hosts (Pixel Shannon)
I'm checking out free hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites. I test free web hosts and document my results, often with mini tutorials. I wanted to know what to recommend to ...
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html energy @htmlenergy.bsky.social · 12/06/2026
Asking for a friend… does anyone on here know Sir Tim Berners-Lee?
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Luke Ontario @coolhand.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
Because I have the right community’s attention, this is your periodic reminder that I maintain the world’s largest collection of accessibility tools for developers and I want more. I know I’ve missed a ton in the last year. Ty carry on 🙌
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GitHub - lukeslp/awesome-accessibility: Curated list of accessibility resources, tools, and best practices for creating inclusive digital experiences
Curated list of accessibility resources, tools, and best practices for creating inclusive digital experiences - lukeslp/awesome-accessibility
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c ⁘ kreuzchen @krzchn.net · 05/06/2026
i made this html+css template as an alternative to linktree for people who want to ditch it. you can host it for free on neocities! and it's yours forever :) if for any reason neocities falls in the future, you can easily grab the files and host them somewhere else.
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AlternativeTo @alternativeto.net · 05/06/2026
A Swiss Army knife of free browser tools, with QR and barcode generators, a background remover, palette tools, a favicon maker, PDF preflight, typography calculators, social media croppers, and dozens more quick utilities. No login, no ads, and no tracking. Did we mention it’s FREE? 👀
A cartoon character with glasses holds tools, surrounded by icons representing various web utilities. The overall theme highlights creativity.
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Brian Carroll @classicbri.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Right! Linktree doesn’t offer anything novel from what I was coding into my old Angelfire sites
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Stefen Auris @stefenauris.com · 01/06/2026
For those of you who are concerned about LinkTree starting to use AI, I've set up a linkstack instance at directory.theheart.land which you are free to use <3 NSFW okay, just no illegal or hateful things
directory.theheart.land
Heartland's Directory
Take control of your online presence with LinkStack the privacy-focused, open-source link management platform. Create a customizable profile page to manage all your important links in one c...
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Leenerella @leenerella.com · 01/06/2026
Instead of Linktree, you could have a real website, and feature your socials and your channels, and even show your work if you want. ...and you would own it.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 01/06/2026
I started writing a tutorial for a basic HTML handmade "link tree" website a while back. I guess I should finish it.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 01/06/2026
Yes! Make your own website. yourownwebsite.org
yourownwebsite.org
Your Own Website
Resources to help people make their own websites. Anyone can make a personal website or a hobby website. Learn HTML, find a free web host, or start a blog.
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Neocities @neocities.org · 28/01/2026
Bing has blocked neocities and all user subdomains from its search index. We’ve spent months trying to resolve this through official channels and gotten nowhere. Until this gets resolved, we are recommending that people do not use Bing. Blog post with details: blog.neocities.org/blog/2026/01...
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Neocities Is Blocked by Bing
Over the past few months, the Bing search engine has completely blocked the domain neocities.org, including the front site and all user subdomains (example.n...
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Shannon Kay @shannonkay.com · 01/10/2025
Some of my favorite TLDs are going up in price at every registrar on October 6. This includes domain extensions like .coffee and .pink and .cafe! If you have a domain name with one of these TLDs, you can renew now for multiple years to get the lower price. #DomainNames porkbun.com/blog/domain-...
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Domain Name Price Increases October 6, 2025 - Porkbun.com
Did you hear about the domain name price increases happening October 6, 2025? This article lists all 233 affected domain extensions.
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Shannon Kay @shannonkay.com · 07/08/2025
Me: Today has been the birthday of the World Wide Web. 34 years old today! Kid: The world is 34 years old?! #WorldWideWeb
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Maija Koivula ⌘ @maijakoivula.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
To celebrate HTML Day #htmlday I added a link page on my awesome Neocities website and illustrated it quickly with a scanned pencil drawing that I doodled on the back of an envelope. maijanlainen.neocities.org/mustikka
stylistic pencil art sketch of a blueberry and leaves
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Patrick Weaver @patrickweaver.net · 01/08/2025
Just in time for #htmlday I have a new way to write HTML, dancing! Feeling the @htmlenergy.bsky.social 🪩 doodles.patrickweaver.net/dancing-html/
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 02/08/2025
Happy HTML Day! In honor of #HTMLDay I've got a new URL and printable cheat sheet for Make Your Own Website. make.yourownwebsite.org yourownwebsite.org#printables #HTMLDay2025 #HTML #SmallWeb #MakeYourOwnWebsite #PersonalSites #PersonalWebsite #WebWeaving #IndieWeb
Make Your Own Website printable cheat sheet thumbnail with a basic HTML page structure example, a table with a reference for a few html tags, and some helpful links at the bottom. Full tutorial at https://make.yourownwebsite.org

Make Your Own Website Cheat Sheet
Basic HTML Page Structure Example
index.html
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>My Website Title</title>
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
</head>
<body>
<header><hl1>My Website</hl></header>
<main>
<p>Welcome to my website!</p>
</main>
<footer>This website was made by Me</footer>
</body>
</html>
HTML Tag Reference (just a few tags)
Paragraph <p> <p>This is my paragraph</p>
Link <a> <a href="https://www.mywebsite.tld">My Website</a>
Line Break <br> <br>
Horizantal Rule <hr> | <hr>
Image <img> <img src="catl.gif" alt="Pixel drawing of a black and white cat">
Free Web Hosting Places to write your code
https://neocities.org https://vscode.dev
https://nekoweb.org https://phcode.io
https://pages.github.com https://codepen.io
A plain text editor like Notepad
Full tutorial at: https: //make.yourownwebsite.org
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 19/07/2025
I've added a test of tiiny.host to my Free Website Hosts page. web.pixelshannon.com/freehosts/#t...
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Testing Free Website Hosts (Pixel Shannon)
I'm checking out free hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites. I test free web hosts and document my results, often with mini tutorials. I wanted to know what to recommend to ...
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 17/07/2025
New emoji for Unicode 17! I'm excited about the ballet dancer, as a ballet mom. #Emoji
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🥳 Say Hello to the New Emoji Coming in Unicode 17.0 This Fall! ✨
From 🥹 to 🦖 to 🎸, emoji have become the world's favorite way to say anything—without saying a word. Whether you're texting your best frie...
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Retro Tech Dreams @retrotechdreams.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Defragmenting
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 31/03/2025
"Now through April 6, all omg.lol signups, renewals, and gift codes are 25% off with the promo code KINDNESS. And during this same period, I’m donating 25% of all sales to Best Buddies International" omglol.news/2025/03/29/c...
omg.lol
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 26/03/2025
I've installed Readeck on my server for saving and reading articles from the web, and I really like it. It has highlighting! readeck.org #SelfHosting
readeck.org
Home
Save interesting articles, long read, pictures, videos. Read or revisit them later.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 12/03/2025
I'm checking out free web hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites. I wanted to know what to recommend to people who want to make their own website, so I decided to try things out for myself! #WebHost #PersonalSites Testing Free Website Hosts web.pixelshannon.com/freehosts
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Testing Free Website Hosts (Pixel Shannon)
I'm checking out free hosting providers that can be used for fun and personal websites. I test free web hosts and document my results, often with mini tutorials. I wanted to know what to recommend to ...
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 08/03/2025
No Web Without Women "A collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology." nowebwithoutwomen.com #WomenInTech
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No Web Without Women
An educational website featuring a collection of innovations by women in the fields of computer science and technology.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 08/03/2025
Here's a roundup of some great indie/small web newsletters this week. Most of these were delivered to my RSS reader. Scrolls by Shellsharks: shellsharks.com/scrolls/scroll/2025… People and Blogs: manuelmoreale.com/pb-james This Week in Self-Hosted: selfh.st/newsletter/2
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Scroll sextus
Arcane curation from the IndieWeb, Fediverse and Cybersecurity realms
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Shannon Kay @shannonkay.com · 03/03/2025
Do you want more pink in your RSS feed? If, like me, you are in the Venn diagram of people that read #RSS feeds with the #NetNewsWire client and also want their News to be pink, I have the perfect theme for you! You can get my #pink themes for NetNewsWire here: www.shannonkay.com/themes
Screenshot of Shannon theme on NetNewsWire for iPhone with a light pink background, black text and dark pink accentsScreenshot of Shannon theme on NetNewsWire for Mac with a light pink background, black text and dark pink accentsScreenshot of Shannon theme in dark mode on NetNewsWire for iPhone with a dark off-black background, light text, and light pink headers and accentsScreenshot of Shannon theme in dark mode on NetNewsWire for Mac with a dark off-black background, light text, and light pink headers and accents
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 24/02/2025
Here's what I use for internet basics. - Email: iCloud Mail with Custom Domains (support.apple.com/en-us/102540) - Browser: Safari or Firefox; Opera or Vivaldi if I need something Chromium-based - Search Engine: DuckDuckGo (duckduckgo.com) - Domain Registration: Porkbun.com
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Use Custom Email Domain with iCloud Mail - Apple Support
When you subscribe to iCloud+, you can use a custom domain name that you already own to personalize your iCloud email address, or you can purchase a new domain.
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Sophie @localghost.dev · 22/02/2025
Having your own website is not going to fix democracy, or capitalism, but it makes a political statement. It says "I want to carve my own space on the web" and I think this is a radical act. It was when I originally said this in 2022, and I mean it even more today. localghost.dev/blog/this-pa...
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This page is under construction - localghost
If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 22/02/2025
Bluesky Domain Handles: How do I change my Bluesky username to my domain name? www.pixelshannon.com/bluesky/doma...
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Bluesky Domain Handles: How do I change my Bluesky username to my domain name?
There are two different ways to get your domain name ready to use as a Bluesky handle. The DNS Panel method requires you to change DNS settings for your domain, so you'll need to have access to your d...
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 20/02/2025
How do I change my Bluesky username to my domain name? www.pixelshannon.com/bluesky/hand... Verify your Bluesky account, Bluesky domain handles, and testing free web hosts that you can use to make a Bluesky handle to match your website address.
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Bluesky Handle Tests by Pixel Shannon
I test Bluesky domain handles, especially subdomains with free web hosts. The best custom domain Bluesky handles aren't just vanity usernames. They tell you about the user if you check out the website...
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 20/02/2025
Bluesky Domain handle test: GitHub Pages - ✅ verified This one is great because it verifies you with your GitHub username. Details of how I set up the GitHub Bluesky Handle: www.pixelshannon.com/bluesky/hand...
Screenshot of my Bluesky profile showing the display name, Pixel Shannon, with the username @shannonkay.github.io under it.Screenshot of my Bluesky profile showing the display name, Pixel Shannon, with the username @github.shannonkay.com under it.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 14/02/2025
Bluesky Handles I've Tested So Far - Domain with DNS method- ✅ verified - Subdomain with DNS and *No DNS Panel method* - ✅ verified - Emoji Subdomain - ❌ Emoji subdomain Bluesky handles do not verify with either method.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 13/02/2025
I just took this fun quiz, Which HTML Element are you? I'm the <p> element, and my nested element is <blockquote> Take the quiz at jamesg.blog/2025/02/13/html-quiz
You are the <p> element!
You see the web as a fantastic platform for sharing the words you write.

Your nested element is <blockquote>.
You like to think about ideas from multiple places and connect them.
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CX-7 @cx-7.bsky.social · 11/02/2025
The Birth of the Web: How One Site Changed Everything On Aug 6, 1991, Tim Berners-Lee launched the first-ever website at CERN: info.cern.ch. Using HTML, HTTP & URLs, he built the foundation of the Web. Instead of patenting it, he made it free for all—shaping the internet as we know it. 🌐 #webdev
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 10/02/2025
Make Your Own Website web.pixelshannon.com/make This guide is intended to help beginners make their first website with HTML/CSS. Let me know what you think! #MakeYourOwnWebsite #PersonalSites #PersonalWeb #SmallWeb #HTML #CSS #IndieWeb #WebDev #homepage #SmolWeb
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Make Your Own Website
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 05/02/2025
Omg.lol gives you a domain name, profile page/web page, and a bunch of other things.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 03/02/2025
Bluesky domain handle Where to get a domain name? I suggest porkbun.com How do I change my username to my domain name? - Official doc: bsky.social/about/blog/4... - Tutorial about using the "No DNS panel" method. For Neocities, but the method works elsewhere. www.bobdraws.com/neocities-bl...
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 02/02/2025
I tried making a glitch.me subdomain handle with the text file uploading method on my homepage test project. It didn't work. Maybe they have hidden folders blocked or something. Too bad, I thought their "glitch in bio" link tree project might be a good option to combine with a subdomain handle.
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Pixel Shannon @pixelshannon.com · 31/01/2025
Nekoweb is personal website host similar to Neocities. I was able to configure a Bluesky handle with my nekoweb.org subdomain. I used the "No domain panel" option in Bluesky, uploading the text file to a folder. Like Neocities, this is a nice option for a website and matching handle.
Screenshot of my Bluesky profile showing the display name, Pixel Shannon, with the username @shannonkay.nekoweb.org under it.
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