Why a Personal Website?

A personal website can be a bit of an indulgence. Our purpose is to play with web design as a hobby at a simple and personal level. The content has turned out to be a collection of bicycle rides and other ancillary musings.

These pages are made with HTML and CSS coding, and were hosted on our BTInternet personal site. But BTInternet closed its free web hosting sites early in 2012, so we moved everything to a commercial host. We played around with Joomla and got quite good at it but that is aimed at websites with ever changing content, whereas our website is more of a diary. In any case, it’s interesting to see what can be achieved without the frustrations of WYSIWYG editors. Direct coding is always going to take up less space.

I must put in a word for the excellent https://www.w3schools.com website tutorial pages that have come to my aid countless times.