How to Build a Totally Free Website in 2 Hours on Mailchimp, by a Complete Novice
Making a personal website to highlight my writing
Full disclosure, it was about 2 hours of work, interspersed with another 4 hours of flailing trying to make the thing do what I wanted it to do. Which it wouldn’t (did I mention it was FREE? Including a custom domain?). I’m going to save you that four hours of flailing and let you know how the website builder is structured and what it’s limitations are. My vanity project resulted in the following creation, brianewish.com:
I can’t tell you that this is the best website in the world, or that it will do a whole lot at this point, but it is a lot more impressive than what I had before, which is zilch.
Deciding to take the plunge
I’m as computer savvy as the next guy, maybe even a little above average, but until now I’ve never published a website. Why would I want to? I finally dove in for three reasons:
- Convenience. I shared a few of my articles with friends at work, and they asked if I’d written anything else. Like most companies, the…
