Chad McCullough<p>It's been years, many years, actually, since I last built a site with HTML. Recently, I've been wanting to end my participation in the larger web and start contributing to a smaller web. A web that was full of creative people, building cool and fun sites, and sharing information. Not the web of today that is full of companies pumping ads at us, forcing us to use ad blockers to keep us safe, or the companies scraping the web to build their AI models. The web of today is terrible, bloated, and not what the internet was originally created for.<br><br>I've deleted my personal and freelance/consulting sites, both built on bloated WordPress, and I have been reintroducing myself to HTML and CSS so I can rebuild my sites. I've been having so much fun. To do this, I've joined <a href="https://bearblog.dev" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://bearblog.dev</a> for my personal site/blog, and <a href="https://neocities.org" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://neocities.org</a> as a practice space for working on my HTML and CSS. Both are brilliant, and to support both, it's really affordable.<br><br>To start my journey of reintroducing myself to HTML and CSS, I read (multiple times) <span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.lol/@bw" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>bw</span></a></span>'s online book, "HTML for People". You can find it at <a href="https://htmlforpeople.com/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://htmlforpeople.com/</a>. And if you enjoy reading it, throw a bit of money Blake's way for all of the hard work.<br><br>Anyway, I'll get off my soapbox about the bloated web of today and get back to learning HTML and CSS. My personal site is still a bit crap, but I'm working on it! 😃<br><br><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/html" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>html</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/css" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>css</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/smallweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>smallweb</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/bloatedweb" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>bloatedweb</span></a></p>