MINIMAL WEB TUTORIALS

This page is a collection of minimal tutorials. These are the absolute minimum you need to get what you want up and running.

The goal of this website is to document simple technologies we think are still useful today.

All tutorials are for self-hosted infrastructure.

Creating a single static page:

• Using basic HTML
• Finding HTML snippets
• Turn plain text into a website with Markdown & Pandoc

• Getting a cheap domain (~$10/year)
• Getting a cheap server (~$4/month)

• Neocities hosting (free)

• Pointing a domain towards Neocities (free)
• Hosting a webpage on Cloudflare (free)

• One line command for a live website
• Hosting a webpage with nginx

• Using Git
• Tools for managing code and deployments

• Setting up an XMPP server
• Setting up a Mastodon server
• Setting up a Lemmy server
• Setting up a PeerTube server
• Setting up an RSS reader
• Setting up a Wordpress blog
• Setting up Icecast
• Setting up a wiki
• Setting up a forum
• Receive email at your domain (infinite email addresses!)
• Using IPFS through Cloudflare Gateways
• Using IPFS through your own server

• Saving a webpage offline

• Webrings
• Social networking in a decentralized world