How To Make A Stunning Personal Website

With complete control over the content and design

Thomas Molnar-Brock
The Startup

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Making a website can be challenging. It can be hard to know where to start. A lot of guides are too niche or rigid. What you need is complete control over the look of your website and a solid understanding of the elements that determine how it will look and feel to your target market.

In keeping with Medium’s elegant minimalist design, I will show you how to create a unique, personalized, powerful website without having to depend on a limiting and costly third-party content management system like WordPress, Wix, or Drupal. A fair warning — the tradeoff for such a high level of freedom and lack of cost is that you will need to put in the effort. My goal with this guide is to show you all you need to know to make a brilliant website, but not to compromise by dumbing it down to a confined level. A good website should be easy to use, inspirational, and easy to customize but not so easy that you cannot improve current or existing functionality.

Where to Find Information:

When developing a website, there will inevitably be components of the code which baffle you. The point isn’t to know everything but rather where to find everything you need as efficiently as possible. Knowing the basics will certainly help…

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Thomas Molnar-Brock
The Startup

I like to write about technology and personal growth.