Disclaimer: 1. i was a sex worker it's my slur to reclaim. 2. if you're an annoying engineer, shut the fuck up nerd this isn't for you piss off. Nobody cares it's inefficient, nobody is switching to linux (yet), you are scaring the hoes. if it gets people on the computer making a website it's better than you scaring them off permanently. If you do have helpful tips tho that aren't drenched in 1700 layers of condescension feel free to leave them tho.
edit: I actually added a quick thing about webcomics too.
Ok so now that's out of the way, I know think what you want which is a step by step tutorial. You're gonna bookmark that shit and then keep putting it off for another 6 weeks, then re-open it after another platform collapses. nah this is gonna show you this shit is way easier than you think.
Remember: Most code is copy-pasting bullshit together, changing it a lil bit and hoping it work, if you can copypaste that screenshot into discord, you can code baby.
Some nerd gonna come in the comments and say OH BUT HAVE YOU CONSIDERED THE SPINDINGLE.REACT.JS QUERY is GOING TO CONINGLE IF YOU JUST slipshop dingle bop no and I don't give a fuck.
there's tons of websites like this where you can just see a little effect or something that you like, and they have the code snippet right there! https://scripted.neocities.org/
Check out codepen too they got some gold in there
Use a visual editor that lets you see shit in real time
I use phoenix editor. https://phcode.dev/ cuz if not you'll be constantly refreshing then not knowing what you did wrong and it's a pain. it's nice you can just click on an element and it'll show you in your code where it got you fucked up
USE A TEMPLATE. NO NOT THE SADGIRL GENERATED ONES. something dummy proof
I like 's that's the one on my website. This aint shade towards sadgirl but all the multi-columns and shit fucked me up and I got tripped up.
The art gallery I use on my website is
this is the specific template for the gallery https://kayleerowena.com/blog/2025/code-template/
Realistically it's much easier to just use a small template and just make quick edits and grow over time than start from scratch. You can add all your little effects and stuff later.
iframes are your best friends. esp with a template
do you know how I got my blog on my website with all of the rss and bluesky/atproto awesomeness integrated? One line of code baby
work lazier not harder for no reason.
also this is how I embedded my webcomic BECAUSE I USED THE FUCKING RAREBIT TEMPLATE AND THERE WAS AN INTERNAL ISSUE WITH NEOCITIES THAT ACTED LIKE A BITCH-
(fun fact did you know this is why there are comic tools in leaflet it's because in my autistic rage I literally opened up figma and made a whole design begging them to add webcomic tools and begged them in dm and they actually did it in a week and i was like damn i aint realize it was gonna be that easy)
this allows me to upload from mobile WITHOUT EVER OPENING UP THAT CODE MYSELF because I am LAZY and i REFUSE to touch javascript again
you: wow damn... that seems a lot easier than I thought, you have magic in those big titties belle but where do i go if I need more on hands help
go google/kagi/marginalia it but generally if you don't wanna ask and need something step-by-step that's interactive and basic af - I recommend the khan academy course - https://www.khanacademy.org/computing/computer-programming/html-css it's a lil outta date and for some reason they do javascript first but whatever it's interactive and not crazy enshittified
I also like petrapixel for guides https://petrapixel.neocities.org/coding/how-to-make-a-website
you could also check out https://www.fancoders.com/ which has a whole community and guides and all of that.
I'm too lazy for even that/don't got a pc what do i do everywhere doesn't allow NSFW!
You can use the leaflet like a mini site, I know did his entirely on his ipad and there's a ton of gallery options, like I said, I have my leaflet embedded in my site here, but you can hook a domain (that's the fancy .com/porn/whatever tf dot thing you got) directly so it goes there too. And leaflet allows nsfw. So you could start there and then just embedd or something in the future and it automatically got the rss n shit built in which I think is a good compromise too.
You: but belle yours is so cute wtf how do i get mine to look like yours
me: my type of autism is not easily emulated.... jk here's some resources
^every place I got stuff from is directly linked there but also this is a mega search of the indie web
ok that's it i love u be good don't be annoying or i'll block u