I can help if you want to learn HTML to do it here. Otherwise, I'd say either write.as or maybe wattpad?
Are there other sites like write.as that you all would recommend? I've found a few lists but would love to hear what you guys are using. I'm looking to post some semi-anonymous pieces of writing. It's a first person urban fantasy fiction piece that I think it would be fun to fuzz the line between fact and fiction with.
So shoot me your recommendations please! Help a cryptid distract themselves with bizarre fiction!
I can help if you want to learn HTML to do it here. Otherwise, I'd say either write.as or maybe wattpad?
I've just been putting my fic on a domain of my own. Why not put your stuff on oracle.midnight.pub?
Primarily because I have 0 tech savvy and have no idea how to do that! Lol
I agree with @pink2ds -- if you want to learn HTML, it's always a good time, but if you write stuff in gemtext format, the pub will make it available both ways. I'll check out whatever you put up!
The problem here is I don't even know what gemtext means. So I'm not sure that I think me coding is such a great idea. Or rather, I think that would have to involve taking up an entirely new hobby to keep pursuing this weird little side project that really only exists to fill up my writing cup a bit.
I agree with starbreaker, you could definitely try to host it on oracle.midnight.pub! When you go to your account, you can see “manage site”. From there you can create “index.html” and start writing. If you’ve never done html before, it’s a fun thing to learn. Not very complex either.
Hmmm... So, you never made a web page with HTML before?
Nope. I've never touched it.
Here, I'll teach you how to do write it.
Make a text file that is named index.html (make sure it's not accidentally named index.html.txt or similar).
Inside, put something like this
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head><title>Oracle's Webpage</title></head> <body> <h1>Oracle's Webpage</h1> <p>First paragraph go here</p> <p>Second paragraph go here</p> <p>And so on.</p> <p>And here is <a href="https://midnight.pub">how to make links</a></p> <h2>You can also have sub-headers</h2> <p>And more paragraphs</p> </body> </html>
Good luck.
Yeah, this will definitely get you started. You should be able to create this in any basic text editor; Notepad will do the job if you're on Windows, but Notepad++ is even better once you've gotten some experience.
@pink2ds didn't provide any styling in her example; if you want to make web pages fancier you'll need CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) as well as HTML.
Mozilla has more detailed tutorials if you're interested.
Getting Started with HTMLAlso, if you're on a desktop and go to websites that aren't mainly JavaScript apps, right-clicking and selecting "View Source" will let you see the markup used to build pages.
Maybe you also can just use index.gmi on this particular site, and write in gemtext instead of HTML.
Much easier@starbreaker, please use she/her for me.♥