Overview
This page is an exploration of how to code in HTML/JS in a creative way.
you coding your own website after this guide
It isn't meant to be an all-encompassing guide, but instead a resource to copy/remix/change parts of. It's centered around the fact that you can look at the HTML/CSS/JS to see how this all works whenever you want.
It's a jumping off point. Please copy, remix, and alter this code to try out new projects or ideas.
References
this site is intended to fit into a larger conversation about the "handmade web".
here are some people to check out if you're interested:
Artists / Collectives:
- Cassie McQuater
- Nolen Royalty
- Neal Ardwal
- Chia Amisola
- JODI
- Pierre Cusa
- Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley
- Matthew Rothenberg
- The HTML Review
Writing / Theorists:
- "Making Space for a handmade web" - Chia Amisola (2025)
- "There is an internet that is mine & I would like you to live in it with me" - Chia Amisola (2022)
- “I am a poem I am not software” - Robin Rendle (2023)
- “My website is a shifting house next to a river of knowledge. What could yours be?” - Laurel Schwulst (2018)
- “A Handmade Web” - J. R. Carpenter (2016)
- “Queer Servers and Feral Webs” - Austin Wade Smith (2023)
- The Participant - A Century of Participation in Four Stories - Christopher M. Kelty
- Migrant Futures: Decolonizing Speculation in Financial Times - Aimiee Bahng
- Poetic Operations - Trans of Color Art in Digital Media - micha cárdenas
- Blockchain Chicken Farm: And Other Stories of Tech in China - Xiaowei Wang