You Should Have a Website

I’ve championed owning your own website for a while now, and have been posting more heavily about it over the past year or so. My own journey to running my own website was born out of a combination of desiring the challenge of maintaining my own site, wanting a place where I could control what I post and how it looks, and wanting some longevity and permanence for my web presence. And over time, I’ve begun to believe that it would be beneficial both for the individual and for society at large if more people followed suit.

I’ve also been keeping an eye out for other bloggers with a similar ethos, which is how I ran across The Website Manifesto by Nora Reed yesterday, and thought they made enough good points that it was worth rebroadcasting. I won’t rehash the post here, as there are too many good points. You should read it yourself.

I’ll leave you with the final thought from Nora’s manifesto:

My hope is that dipping your toe into making a website will be a first step toward having agency over your web presence and, ultimately, your relationship with technology in general. So much of the web as it is right now is social media websites that try to maximize how much time you spend looking at their ads, but it doesn’t have to be that way. Making a website is a tiny way to get a little bit of that agency back. I hope yours serves you well.