How Did I Make This Site?

I spent a lot of time thinking about how I would structure this website and all of this planning led to opting for extreme simplicity over the design of most modern websites. I am an adult with other responsiblities, and more importantly, other interests besides web design, and honestly, I'm not even really interested in web design! Because of this, I had no interest in spending hours and hours futzing around with even all the color variables on sadgrl.online's layout maker as somebody who enjoys retro web design might. My goal was not to make something especially pretty or referential to old web design but something lightweight and functional that I would not have to think about, would not easily break, and could easily be transfered from place to place.

I do have a background in tech, but not in anything web-related so that didn't help much. I do have some leftover HTML knowledge from my Neopets days but even with those basics they didn't mean much (I didn't bother with even CSS because as a 4th grader it looked "too hard"!). What I'm trying to say is that if you want to make something super duper simple, I don't think it has to be hard, and I think you could do it too if you don't have much knowledge and don't want to expend much effort.

So, I've compiled the resources I've used to build this site:

• Neocities.org as the host, of course,
• Wanna Steal This Look? an extremely minimalist CSS template by Cozyaby that boils down everything to just 4 hex colors with all content centered on the page with the option of drawing boxes to organize content
• Lospec Palette List to find a palette (this one is based off of the bottom half of the Fairydust 8 Palette)
• A Complete Guide to Flexbox a guide to the CSS flexbox layout. I want to emphasize that you do not need this, but I used this to build the sidebars and if you're already a little familiar with CSS, it's not difficult.
• W3School's HTML and CSS tutorials to fill in any knowledge holes
• Mike Grindle's Webpage indirectly. I didn't kludge any code together from this site, but it was a good reminder of how simply designed a good website can be.

That's it, really. Building your site doesn't have to be hard!