A website is usually a HTML file served from a webserver or similar.

Use something like nginx or apache or lighttpd to host your site. Serve HTTPS, configure automatically with something like certbot Specify which CAs are allowed to issue certs for your domains with CAA records (see DNS)

Look at cool old stuff over on https://www.webdesignmuseum.org/software

Here's a list of websites with cool design: https://2f30.org/home.html → suckless member design https://git.zx2c4.com/cgit/about/ → minimal, clean and fast UI https://quadpoint.org/ → personal site with a clean interface from 2014 https://www.karl.berlin → clean design https://www.gibbard.me/computers/ → minimal, clean design, almost material https://lyngvaer.no/about → dcat, very minimal native dark theme https://causal.agency/ → styled man page https://z3bra.org/ → very minimal list style https://artlung.com/ → distinct design https://m7i.org/ → minimal clean nice https://ritter.vg/code_adventures_site.html → minimalist, fully working site no JS nothing https://cweiske.de/home.htm → minimal clean nice https://p5r.uk/about.html → clean https://pear.php.net/ → clean

See this post for a very simple way with make: https://lyngvaer.no/log/static-page-generator

See https://www.karl.berlin/static-site.html for another way to deploy sites with makefiles. Can use smu as a markdown → html converter in between, see https://karlb.github.io/smu/ or debian package md2html for auto links

Novel way to give out email address without fear of spam: force ppl to run a command to 'decipher' it. Example: echo jhfdgk@lsp.kh | tr psldkjfhg qtcnrmloa

Source: https://lyngvaer.no/email

See also

https://www.mkdocs.org/ → static site generator for documentation

https://botoxparty.github.io/XP.css/ → XP and win95 styled CSS: buttons, windows, text, lists, trees, etc https://j3s.sh/thought/my-website-is-one-binary.html → simply build websites in go