I love making sites and damn do I love making them, I’ve accumulated a lot of ideas that I don’t really feel fit in specific sites I’ve made. So the main question is,
Are you the type to have a singular site or do you have several sites out there that you’re also working on? If so, how many and why?
I’m a very indecisive person and I’ve always wanted to be able to categorize some of the chaos in my life by having a specific look and feel for my spaces. Although, it is a pain in the ass to sometimes update several different sites, I felt like I could finally experiment with different things in a fresh new website instead of cramming it all into one, I always planned on making multiple websites with different approaches of the same hobby.
That’s also part of the reason why I made Studio Luxe and Velvet’s Smoking Lounge (And also my main site cosy diner) as their own thing, instead of just trying to put them under one large site. I like having a consistent theme, but that is very hard when said themes contradict each other.
Oh man I just have the one. I’m planning on making a second one at some point soonish for my IRL professional site, with resume and projects and such. But one of the joys of a website is how many different pages you can add to one site. I take full advantage of that LMAO
Hm… I guess I have 2.5 websites? My main one, my newly uploaded “Accessibility for Blogs” (which is on a subdomain), and my links page (also on a subdomain, which I’ll likely use for manual shortlinks as well).
I currently have 2 more planned - “Solitary Quest,” which will host reviews and playthroughs of solo/journaling games, and an Outer Wilds fan site/planetarium for Marigold Town. But since my main site is still in its very early stages, I’m not sure when I’ll get around to making those…
1 blog/personal site that also has my traditional art
1 for my pixel art
1 fanlisting collective (anyone remember those? They seem to be making a little bit of a comeback atm)
1 professional portfolio
I tried to cram it all under one roof in the beginning but that didn’t last long. It just felt disorganized and like I had no idea what I was doing I’m a big fan of “separation of concerns” so I like having different places for different things.
Yes, it can be a pain in the backside to keep multiple sites updated - but if you ask me it’s worth it.
When you have different sites for different projects/interests/whatever it allows you to go all-in. The sites can focus 100% on their thing without having to worry about clashing concepts or jarring changes. And I like that.
With that said, I’ve seen many sites that are like vast labyrinths, covering several different topics, and yet they’ve managed to make it make sense. Some people know how to tie it all together. But personally, I prefer to keep things separated.
A site for my old professional life, certifications and so on that I really should delete. ihor4x4 - A site about off-road driving. I don’t any anything with this now. HMS Gambia - A cruiser my dad served on.
I built a separate website for my professional life, because I want my professional life and hobbies separate, though I still give my professional website personal style and content to represent myself.
The main reason I created separate sites for my tumbleblog and fanlisting collective was because they have different technical needs from my main hobby site: My hobby site is a static site, meaning it is built with only HTML, CSS and occasionally JavaScript, but my tumbleblog is built with a blogging engine that is written in PHP, and my fanlistings uses PHP as well. That said, since both my tumbleblog and fanlisting colelctives are also hobby projects, and they use subdomains of leilukin.com, I classified them as subsites and part of Leilukin’s Hub.
Before migrating all my websites to Hostinger, my professional and hobby sites, which were both static websites, were hosted on GitHub Pages and Netlify respectively, while my PHP websites were hosted on InfinityFree. Even now, with all my websites on Hostinger, I decided to keep these sites separate, so I can focus on their different purposes and needs when maintaining them.
I technically have six, all on neocities subdomains, but largely just update my main. Of course my main is solaria’s webspace, one is just saving the subdomain for my buddie incase he ever wants to make a neocities, three are mini sites for three of my OCs as if they made it themselves, last one is a nsfw site I won’t be sharing. Now the vast majority of my pages are on my main site, if I started separating them out I would have way too many sites to keep track of. I don’t mind not having a consistent theme, infact I greatly enjoy making different designs for each page :3
However, I’d like to split off my rainbow science pages into their own site with its own domain, maybe even using a more traditional host, since it is more standalone and has a decent chunk of content on its own. But I don’t have the time or resources at the moment. Eventually I’d also like to get a domain for my main site :3 I never started off with a domain because I didn’t know I would be maintaining a whole website for a while, I just thought it would be another passing interest.
I recently revamped my website to be my one and only site. I’m moving over multiple decades worth of things from other places I’ve written like Tumblr, WordPress and Blogspot. I keep wanting to use the omg.lol services but I really like having everything on one domain with a consistent look.
30?? Aww man I gotta keep up, I’ve only got 3 sites lmaooo. But in seriousness, I think having a webpage on “main” site is a good way to go.
I know Solaria already suggested this so I won’t elaborate further. Speaking from experience, having a main site to just organize all your crap will save you the trouble of linking multiple websites/projects on your bio every single time. (The best part is that it’s a lot more customizable and fun than a linktree)
dang i always used linktree or more recently beacons.ai, both are insanely boring and preformatted, why didnt i think of this before?!? yall are geniuses. bravo.
I’m a big fan of “separation of concerns” so I like having different places for different things.