The ability to create your own website is a very empowering option for anyone who wants to share their work, their expertise, their products, or their creative expressions. I would like to follow up on this a bit more because I would like to see more creatives make their own websites. Here is a brief checklist of tasks that you would complete logistically for launching a website that you create yourself:
This website is one that I coded from scratch using HTML and CSS program code. It is a continuing project, and as I expand my artwork and the website, I learn more about web development. Coding your own website is a fun project to try, and it is quite doable especially if the main intent of your site is to display images of your artwork and provide contact information. This could be useful for sharing your creations with friends and family, or if you are a student who is applying to art school and would like to create an online portfolio. HTML and CSS are both very beginner friendly - HTML gives you the basic structure of the website with depicting images and text. CSS is the style sheet that tells the HTML code how to look pretty with different margins, font styles, and colors. There are many fun template website services that make it easy to add other features like a shop that some beginning programmers may want assistance with. I really like that coding my own site means that the format that I use is only limited by what I can learn.