I want to make my own website, like a blog where I talk about tech and tutorials and such. Something like https://kerkour.com and https://lukesmith.xyz. Any ideas for simple but modern design?
Learn html and CSS then create a simple static website. It’s a lot easier than it sounds, Mozilla has great documentation.
My answer is probably boring, but it works, and I had fun with my own. Just set up Wordpress. At this point, you can find templates for any site design imaginable, and there are a million plugins for it. It’s an all-around solid platform, that has mountains of documentation. Wordpress was made for blogging, can’t go wrong there, but I’ve used it for all kinds of stuff, including ecommerce. It’s simple and effective enough that I have a hard time going any other direction.
I used to host Wordpress sites on a home LAMP server; it was a fun project that didn’t cause a bunch of headaches, mainly because of the amount of available documentation. Search “wordpress self-host” and you’ll find a whole lot of information.
Good luck with whatever you decide on!
The problem with WordPress and the like is maintenance. If you don’t keep it up to date, it will get taken by malware. Guaranteed. Any plugins you add increase the risk.
I moved my blog to a markdown based compiled site a long time ago so I didn’t have to worry about that upkeep.
What’s “modern” supposed to mean?
Absurdly large fonts and lots of unused space and rounded corners maybe?
A lots of purple
