There is since a few years the Small Web movement to bring back the fun and the personal touch in websites, instead of trying to mimic big corporate aesthetic and using social networks for everything. Part of it is that yes your website is perfectly fine at anytime as long as you think it represent yourself, your work, your mind, ...
Thank you so much for this reference! I've been collecting resources on exactly this topic: how websites can be "hobbies" again, and how we can "surf" the Internet from one link to the next, circumventing the big algorithms and following our own paths, without falling in a nostalgia trap.
Love this Anna. I had read about a movement towards "digital gardens" a while back, but your experience and words really resonate. Not sure how we solve for the guiding of people to those gardens, but maybe that's just part of what makes connecting to them that much more special. And I wound up here after having been browsing your evolving website!
Hi! Thank you for your comment. Do you remember any of the sources that stood while reading on this? Somewhere in the back of mind I'm playing with the idea of setting up a webring for generative artists, to join all their websites together, but nothing has materialized from it yet.
The only issue I had with it is that while reading it I got so excited about these magical digital oasis’ only to be let down when visiting the ones shared. But, to your point, if we all wait to have the most perfectly designed website and ux, the gardens will never see the light of day to then grow!
There is since a few years the Small Web movement to bring back the fun and the personal touch in websites, instead of trying to mimic big corporate aesthetic and using social networks for everything. Part of it is that yes your website is perfectly fine at anytime as long as you think it represent yourself, your work, your mind, ...
You can read this interesting article about it :
https://localghost.dev/blog/this-page-is-under-construction/
Thank you so much for this reference! I've been collecting resources on exactly this topic: how websites can be "hobbies" again, and how we can "surf" the Internet from one link to the next, circumventing the big algorithms and following our own paths, without falling in a nostalgia trap.
Love this Anna. I had read about a movement towards "digital gardens" a while back, but your experience and words really resonate. Not sure how we solve for the guiding of people to those gardens, but maybe that's just part of what makes connecting to them that much more special. And I wound up here after having been browsing your evolving website!
Hi! Thank you for your comment. Do you remember any of the sources that stood while reading on this? Somewhere in the back of mind I'm playing with the idea of setting up a webring for generative artists, to join all their websites together, but nothing has materialized from it yet.
That’s a really fun idea, and seems particularly doable with tech-minded people. The article I remember most was this one: https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/03/1007716/digital-gardens-let-you-cultivate-your-own-little-bit-of-the-internet/
The only issue I had with it is that while reading it I got so excited about these magical digital oasis’ only to be let down when visiting the ones shared. But, to your point, if we all wait to have the most perfectly designed website and ux, the gardens will never see the light of day to then grow!