By the way, do you have a personal website and does it have a home page? (I’m pretty sure it does… 😁)
I would love to know: what’s on your “home” and why?
Feel free to share a link, of course. 🤗 As always, I’m also asking on behalf of my #OwnYourWeb newsletter subscribers.
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@matthiasott Random ramblings about wordpress, koha, mail-in-a-box, cookies, whatever.
It's an irregular blog I've used intermittently since the late twentieth century.
http://inaniludibrio.com has an “About” page which includes a lengthy explanation for the etymology of the where the term came from and what it means, along with a brief, dense explanation of my interests and context.
@matthiasott just my name, some drawings, and a list of blog posts. I don’t explain anything about the website or myself on the homepage because I assume any person visiting is someone I already know personally XD
@matthiasott Without getting too existential here: I don’t enjoy being in the spotlight and my site reflects that. I don’t write for recognition, I write to serve myself and others. So the prominent list of blog posts is a very deliberate design decision.
Anyway, as always, I should publish more 😅
@matthiasott my "home" is almost everything!
It was a cool gimmick, but the longer the "cards" get, the less well it all works, really....
@rachsmith @matthiasott i take this a step further and put all titles _and_ content on the homepage of my notes site for precisely this reason.
granted, i have some constraints such as no notes have inline images, so the only resource the page loads is the initial HTML document. i can load _a lot_ of text for cheap.
but it's super easy to search my entire collection of notes by just visiting the home page. no need for special search functionality or indexing.
@matthiasott
1. Intro
2. Five newest posts
3. Five most popular posts
4. Posts from the archive for current day
5. Three random (every 15 minutes) posts from archive
Basically trying to show what’s new while still getting use from older posts. The “on this day” feature is something that everyone with a blog should have, it’s amazing the memories it digs up.
@matthiasott Mine is pretty minimal; just enough info to let you know who I am and what I do, mostly so you know if you've got the right site/person.
I figure most people probably aren't landing on my home page unless they're either just curious, or specifically trying to look for me on the web. So I don't put much there.
That said, I've been thinking lately it could be a little more useful. https://joshcollinsworth.com
@matthiasott My site's landing page has a relatively brief "About Me" description, plus links to "featured sections" and recent or featured blog posts: https://www.ryanpatrickrandall.com
I used to have a much, much longer "About Me" section, but I recently was inspired to massively trim it down by looking at @kissane & @dansinker 's sites.
@kissane @matthiasott @dansinker "In medias res" is a perfectly respectable way of introducing what you do!
But yeah, I do think it was your "About" page that I was remembering more than your "Home" page, now that I go look at your site again.
My home page just has a list of my books.
Just realised I have to remove the "print sales" link since it's inactive while I'm travelling...
@matthiasott Although I have an inactive blog site as well, I prefer my portfolio site as my personal home on web. It’s nice to collect my favourite brand design work, especially logos in one place:
@matthiasott mine tells you how to pronounce my name. Because, yeah, it’s necessary, ok?
@matthiasott Photo, One liner about myself, Blog overview.
When restarting my website, I wanted to focus on blogging and actually, posts are my only content at the moment. :)
@matthiasott I have a short description about who I am, a list of latest blog posts, two featured projects, my latest photography, and a couple of web rings. Basically a big starting point to explore my homepage.
@matthiasott I have a short introduction, links to web profiles and links to "selected" articles and projects.
@matthiasott My site is a portfolio so the home page is basically filled with my work. I limit this to 10 projects as it gives a good overview of my style.
There's more info in the About menu, including a Personal User Manual, /Uses, FAQ, and a links page (linktree style).
The page that I update more often is /timeline - I'm definitely no blogger lol.
@matthiasott I write music, and mine has my name, a review quote, and three recordings of my music I wanted to spotlight
If someone listens to any one of those recordings they'll have a pretty good idea of what I do, and I figure it makes sense to show rather than tell about myself since (I think) music is best heard rather than described
@matthiasott I try to keep my home page somewhat clean.
- "Hamburger" menu - which houses a TON of links in and around the site
- Search icon (links to search page)
- "Shellsharks" menu-bar logo
- Homepage splash logo
- List of latest 10 blog posts (and latest "note”)
- Link to license & disclaimer at bottom
So only 6 components. I try to emphasize my latest writing when people visit the site, rather than have them immediately start roaming around because of busy-ness
@matthiasott I just have a list of select projects I've worked on. Someday I'd like to come back and make it a little more personal feeling
@matthiasott I do, and it’s just a high-level introduction.
If I were designing this site for a client, I’d tell them that they should bubble up more of the latest/greatest from the site’s sections to the homepage for discoverability. But it’s my personal site, and I have more fun designing the sections in relative isolation. Which left the home page able to focus on “hey, this is who I am, this is where you are, thanks for visiting.”
@matthiasott my homepage welcomes you and links to the 4 main sections of my website, in the form of a comic! (webcomics are my current creative interest) https://anhvn.com
I like experimenting with it—since I stopped using my site for job hunting purposes (which made the homepage beholden to professional expectations), I've enjoyed playing with structure and format. Some of my old homepages:
- https://anhvn.com/4koma/
- https://anhvn.com/vn/
- https://anhvn.com/bloop/
I just started making my personal website and it's still not much at the moment
@matthiasott My website and home page look like this: https://marialivgallery.com
The home page for my website is mostly a place to come back to after visiting the other pages, and the home page is always changing in its pictures and products.
Two kinds of homes
https://xypnox.com is in terms of UX a large menu for navigation and https://xypnox.com/now is a overview of what I am upto. (I do need to add a real-life pic instead of logo on the nav page)
@matthiasott I modelled my website after the 2020 way people like to consume content: aka a "timeline" of cards.
posts have their own URLs and there's also multiple persona's (one of them is evil) 😈
it's also server rendered on the edge and gives localized times, which helps it feel alive like a social network would.
@matthiasott https://keithjgrant.com
My name, site nav, and a big ol’ image link to my most recent post (and short bio in the footer that appears on all pages). The site is basically a home for my blog & articles, so why beat around the bush?
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