







If you take just one thing away from this article, I want it to be this: please build your own website.
The website builder I want to see
The struggle Recently, I tried to create a website for my church. I didn't plan to be involved long term - I wanted to create some layouts and then let people...

How to Build a Personal Webpage from Scratch - Alex Rutar
An opinionated introduction to designing and deploying a modern static webpage.
mmm.page — Your Corner of the Internet
Websites don't have to be so cookie cutter. Make a website that feels uniquely you in under five minutes.

Making Space for a Handmade Web | Figma Blog
There’s a resurgence of small, handcrafted sites challenging the current trajectory of the internet. Joining the movement is as simple as making your own.

buildthis.bisks.net — tag it, get a site
Tag @buildthis.bisks.net with an idea and a coding agent builds it.
The Architecture Of Local-First Web Development — Smashing Magazine
An honest perspective on building local-first web apps in 2026, written for developers who’ve been doing this long enough to be skeptical of silver bullets.

WEB RESOURCES
Want to make your own website but not sure where to start? Here's a regularly updated directory of the resources I used to build mine, and links I find helpful.
How to Build a Low-tech Website?
Our new website is designed to radically reduce the energy use associated with accessing our content.

localghost
Sophie builds fun things out of HTML, CSS & JavaScript, and writes blog posts about tech and mental health.

Motherfucking Website
You probably build websites and think your shit is special. You think your 13 megabyte parallax-ative home page is going to get you some fucking Awwward banner you can glue to the top corner of your site. You think your 40-pound jQuery file and 83 polyfills give IE7 a boner because it finally has box-shadow. Wrong, motherfucker. Let me describe your perfect-ass website:
frontpage/packages/frontpage/local-infra at main · frontpagefyi/frontpage
Federated link aggregator. Contribute to frontpagefyi/frontpage development by creating an account on GitHub.
Universe Website Builder | Design Custom Sites with No Code
Universe is the fastest and easiest way to build a custom website for your brand or business with everything you need built in.
Publication pages and nav, for Leaflet as…website builder?! - Leaflet Lab Notes
Lab Notes 032: custom pages and nav for all your publications — with a whole bunch of great examples showing sites made with Leaflet
No Build Community Group
A group for those interested in exploring a future of the web that requires fewer/no dependencies and fewer/no build steps. It will provide a forum to discuss what features of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript will lead to a better experience for those developers that value simplicity and eschew over-engineering. The mission of this group to push for web standards that will lead to a better experience for developers that create websites with either no build tools or minimal build tools.
For The Love of God, Make Your Own Website - Aftermath
The internet felt like a limitless expanse of free expression. Now I usually end up at the same three or four websites.

You ever see a personal website that makes you instantly want to redesign your own? Yeah. tombradley.dev
Thomas Bradley — Staff Software Engineer
www.tombradley.dev