# Website
A website is usually a HTML file served from a webserver or similar.


# Serve
Use something like [nginx](nginx) or [apache](apache) or lighttpd to host your site.
Serve HTTPS, configure automatically with something like certbot
Specify which CAs are allowed to issue certs for your domains with CAA records (see [DNS](DNS))



# Cool design
Look at cool old stuff over on https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/software

Here's a list of websites with cool design:
https://2f30.org/home.html -> suckless member design
https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/ -> minimal, clean and fast UI
https://quadpoint.org/ -> personal site with a clean interface from 2014
https://www.karl.berlin -> clean design
https://www.gibbard.me/computers/ -> minimal, clean design, almost material
https://lyngvaer.no/about -> dcat, very minimal native dark theme
https://causal.agency/ -> styled man page
https://z3bra.org/ -> very minimal list style
https://artlung.com/ -> distinct design
https://m7i.org/ -> minimal clean nice
https://ritter.vg/code_adventures_site.html -> minimalist, fully working site no JS nothing


# Deploy
See this post for a very simple way with [make](make): https://lyngvaer.no/log/static-page-generator

See https://www.karl.berlin/static-site.html for another way to deploy sites with makefiles. Can use smu as a markdown -> html converter in between, see https://karlb.github.io/smu/ or debian package `md2html` for auto links



# Contact info
Novel way to give out email address without fear of spam: force ppl to run a command to 'decipher' it. Example:
`echo jhfdgk@lsp.kh | tr psldkjfhg qtcnrmloa`

Source: https://lyngvaer.no/email


See also
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https://www.mkdocs.org/ -> static site generator for documentation

https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/ → XP and win95 styled CSS: buttons, windows, text, lists, trees, etc
https://j3s.sh/thought/my-website-is-one-binary.html -> simply build websites in go