Suppose you want to set up a blog online, or write a curriculum vitae, or whatever, how to build a good personal website?

Wechat Blog

Blogging in WeChat has been fun for the last 5 years. I choose to blog here because most of my friends primarily use WeChat, but there are so many restrictions:

1. I must follow the WeChat format when blogging, sometimes my unique style cannot be shown to the world. I cannot embed YouTube videos, embed instagram posts, embed iframes, Make the Wechat logo disappear, (I cannot even set up a comment section in WeChat), customize fonts, customize page layout (just to name a few)

   I cannot add external links. I can only link to other WeChat official accounts

   

2. It cannot be easily found on the web. I mean, like it cannot be found on google search.

   If you live on the Internet, it is unhandy. You don't want to put all your blogs on a temporary link.

3. Can't edit and One post one day

   That's why I deleted a lot of posts!

4. 404!

5. Unable to make text larger when sharing

   When I share, and the text is so small, and I can't make it bigger, which sucks

How to make a personal website? (noob version)

Wix.com (you can publish your own website in 10 minutes!)

1. Go to wix.com. There is also one for Chinese, called zh.wix.com, which I am not sure of. If it is blocked, then ~~~. If you live on the Internet and everything is constantly blocked, you are living in prison. So get out!

   You don't need programming knowledge to use wix

2. Create an account and create a new site (or choose from templates) Basically just change everything in the templates to yours, like name, photo, whatever.

The free version of wix is good enough, in my opinion. You can also embed htmls in wix

3. Publish!

   Get a website in like 10 minutes (accountname).wixsite.com/(websitename)

   You can also use google site, which is similar, anyways :)

4. Customize domain

   Go to wix domain, then buy one, then publish the wix page on that domain. For example: mystunningwebsite.com (it is taken, but just an example)

Disadvantages of wix

I don't know all disadvantages, but the reason why I stop using the wix websites include

1. It is super slow. Wait for like 10 seconds to load a single page. If you click page source it's like a million lines and I can't figure out what's going on

2. The GUI is good, but it hides complexity, and just limits you to choosing templates.

Other website hosts include google sites, wordpress, etc.

Github

1. You can build the website locally using vscode. Just make a index.html file and write html in it. Actually vscode can help you set up the basics

Write everything in the body section and change the title to whatever cool name.

Then just write other htmls in the same way, if you want an about-me page, then do it. Set up redirect links, and I tried everything on w3school tryit editor

2. Then upload it to github.

3. Purchase a domain, I choose google domain. Other places include GoDaddy, Wix, whatever.

4. Change the dns records in the platforms where you purchased the domain (for example, google domain), add the following,(in github)

5. Go to of the project, and then ,then custom domain, and save the cool domain you purchased. It is live.

Conclusion

Building a website and playing with html is interesting but wastes lots of time.