Did you know if you have your own website, you can do whatever you want with it? Like… it doesn’t have to be all snobby or professional. Or like… some of it can, but some of it could just not be, y’know?
Check this s*** out for example. I went positively rogue on this page.
Then, I slapped my derpy turtle shark thing there ⤴. For NO reason. Isn’t he breathtaking?
Does this post look good? Stop. Don’t care. Doesn’t need to. It is what it is—and what it is, is just something I felt like doing in the moment. I’m going to publish this. Then… I might tweak it. Maybe I’ll add more ridiculous stuff to it. Y’know, when I feel like it. Or, maybe I’ll take it down sometime. Maybe I’ll change the background title and color. I’ma just vibe, cool?
🚨 New font alert!! 🚨
Yeah that's right. Out of nowhere we got this fancy-lookin' font goin' on. Dope.
OK, we’re back.
🎵 Doopa-choppa-doooo 🎶—what should I do now?
I’m trying to send some sort of message here.
The message is simple, yet ✨eloquence✨ may not be my forté. Your site is for you—to be you–and you’re almost certainly kinda weird, right? So own it! Stop worrying about making it “perfect” (whatever that means). Or making it professional (🤢). Or making it need to have this or that. It ain’t that serious. Be more like this page. Be Weird.
Update!
I told you I’d do this. I was munching on a block of extra sharp cheddar cheese thinking about this post and decided I had some more I wanted to say.
You look at this page and you might think it’s “weird”. I mean I do. I’ve said as much throughout. But why? Was it really so long ago that almost all sites looked like this? Personalized. Amateur. Unique. Human—in a time of the “old web”. It does seem like it was a lifetime ago doesn’t it? It’s too bad that people’s blogs have become not like this. The substack-ification of people’s web presence is what’s grotesque if you ask me. I dunno… can you make just one of your pages on Substack lilac? 🌸
…probably not 😔
Come here (the IndieWeb) and be weird with me. With us.