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Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by ams6110 on Thursday January 29, 2015 @09:19PM (#8970141)
Pretty much boils down to the same way you get anything done. Just start doing it.
Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by fernly on Thursday January 29, 2015 @11:12PM (#8970424)
I thought it was meant to be ironic, the white and magenta text on black so repelled my eye. But no, some (not all) of the other pages on the site are like that.
Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by meritt on Friday January 30, 2015 @01:46AM (#8970779)
See author photo: https://github.com/tlevine
Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by zerocrates on Friday January 30, 2015 @01:57AM (#8970810)
Side observation: He created two repositories with hundreds of fake commits so his Github activity chart would spell out "tom."
Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by Jach on Friday January 30, 2015 @04:38AM (#8971220)
GitHub activity vandalism has been around for a while. e.g. https://github.com/gelstudios/gitfiti
Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by RoundCube on Friday January 30, 2015 @01:43AM (#8970770)
I like it.
Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by shade23 on Friday January 30, 2015 @04:18AM (#8971170)
this : Nobody other than you is going to read your website once you have it, at least at first, so don’t worry about designing it for other people.

I like that line.But now considering there are people reading his website.It is quite aesthetically unappealing?I found navigation a bit hard too.

And if you haven't seen it yet.This caught my attention and is actually brilliant. Belly Dancing Techy Talk :D http://www.shira.net/techtalk.htm

It is actually quite an interesting read though.

Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by spiritplumber on Thursday January 29, 2015 @10:05PM (#8970272)
So many steps? There's no way that can be right!
Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by srcreigh on Friday January 30, 2015 @01:23AM (#8970710)
One of the last steps is "Repeat", so they form a loop. I'm guessing that 9001 is a statistic from the creation of his website.
Re:How to make a personal website, in 9001 easy steps (2014) by rjaco31 on Friday January 30, 2015 @03:49AM (#8971098)
Or you know, it's "over 9000"