I first learned about the indie web from Onio's video. Just before that I had been working on some Stardew Valley mods and thought it would be fun to continue my coding quest with a website. I started using phoenix code (idk where I got the recomendation from), and it was just a port of my carrd.co page to html.

That later became my about me page, and it was bad, but it was a start.

I for whatever reason moved to the Neocities editor and decided to make a full website with pages and everything, not just the index. At first I just went around Neocities, looking at other sites for inspiration (this only lasted maybe 10 minutes), then I started working.

Honestly it sucked at first. I knew I wanted it to be purple and black, and use inset borders. I took the idea to make a chatroom from Onio's site, and started structuring the site around that.

Btw that little guy on the left is my minecraft skin. My friend Jered drew it, as he has like 20 times lol. I think he was obsessed.

It was at this point that I chose the name gooberland. It was supposed to be a placeholder, but I haven't thought of a better name since then (unless I have idk I won't remember to update this post).

I found a good (enough) chat service named Chatango, and started my button collection. It was this very 3 column layout that I would stick to.

I added a music player (just one song per page, I'm probably going to keep it that way). I removed the gif because it was causing issues as I started to learn how flexboxes work. The button collection expanded.

Now the homepage was basically done. I had (nearly) everything I wanted, so I got to work on other pages. First the guestbook (I also made my site button at the same time), then the sites page, then the visitor coutner was added (used this back then, I have a github repo hosting it now), then the about me page was updated, and a to-do page (this would later be converted to the lists page.

After a few days all my main pages were complete and I just began adding random stuff. The minecraft page, the windows tweaks page, then come the random easter eggs. It just keeps expanding as days go by. By the end of the year it might have 50 pages who knows.

Honestly this whole thing has been and is an amazing experience, if you've got some spare time and don't have your own site yet, you should make one. There's tons of great resources out there to help you learn: w3schools, HTML Academy, and PetraPixel's site!