You need a website, not another social media account to manage
Your work deserves a real home on the internet
Spend time setting up a new social media account, and in five years you’ll be right back where you started.
I’ve seen this song and dance before. We’ve learned nothing from the days of Xanga, MySpace, and Facebook. What was the name of the app that’d replace Instagram?
“I'm wondering if another social media network is really the answer we need.”
It’s time to build something that lasts - your own website, a homebase on the internet that becomes the primary source of all the work you put out into the world.
A place where casual fans can turn into bigger fans of your work.
Now, most “build your own website” services make websites that are good enough, but your work deserves so much more.
“We are the creative professionals who base our entire careers on making things look interesting.
Why would we stop with our branding, our collateral material, and - for the love of God - our website?
We are in the world of visual excellence. We should make visual excellence the priority feature of our brand.” Photographer Don Giannatti
- made a micro-site for his comic, and Diana Pappas & Tom Bland made a site for their photo & video shoot location titled Meadow, both using Cargo.
- uses Notion to explain their upcoming classes.
My interplanetary commuter music project (Hunterthen) needed a website, so I built one using Carrd. MMM is another website builder, but weirder.
You could upload HTML files to YAY.BOO, made by
(they make Pika, too, which is a neat little blogging platform).I have a WordPress guy, and they set up my blog sethw.xyz in 2018, and I’ve been manually importing photos and posts dating back to 2004. I can introduce you.
You can do whatever you want!
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I usually dread working on my biz website because I feel like I’m transforming all the time and I still have the residual 2013-flavored angst about “branding” myself correctly. But you just made something click for me — the website doesn’t have to be meticulous & glossy, it can be whimsical & real. Those are the websites I like to hang out on anyway. Whew! Thank you for that reframe!
“ Set up a private blog for your friends and family to share photos of your kids instead of putting them on Facebook for Zuckerberg to monetize.” - this has been on my heart lately. I want a place to capture thoughts and memories for a legacy. Not 100% sure which site will works best for me. Substack makes sense, but I like how other blogs have tags on the main page.🤔