100 things you can do on your personal website – 79 to 100

Posted on | by Matt

James wrote 100 things you can do on your personal website stopping at 78 and challenging us to come up with some more. This is me taking up the challenge.

  1. Reply or respond to something in a post. WebMention is great for this.
  2. Create a single-page script that does a thing. For example, a serialized array editor or a word counter.
  3. Ask open-ended questions to encourage replies, comments, and toots.
  4. Write a post reviewing another person’s website and share the love.
  5. Add a little shop to sell the nice things you make.
  1. Create a little archive (or blog category) where you can reblog/repost things you wrote and published elsewhere. There’s a WordPress plugin to help with all that.
  2. Create a creative challenge and encourage other people to show you how they did.
  3. Share screenshots of your sandbox game progress. I do this for Minecraft sometimes.
  4. Start a list of something (like this) and encourage others to add to the list (like this).
  5. Start a webcomic. I made ones about beans doing a dungeon crawl.
  6. Start an email newsletter with a signup and unsignup page. Here’s mine.
  7. Make some kind of directory for cool links. I made one of those too.
  8. Add a generic disclaimer. Bonus points if it is funny and somewhat legally sound.
  9. Add a Creative Commons license so other people can reuse your content.
  10. You have a 404 page, but do you have a “418 I’m a teapot” error page?
  11. Compile a list of your favourite bad puns and dad jokes. You can borrow from mine.
  12. Implement ActivityPub and add your website to the fediverse. There’s a WordPress plugin for that.
  13. Create a widget that displays your current health and mental well-being. Like the one here.
  14. Make a wishlist with links so friends and family know what you might like for your birthday.
  15. Make a little toggle to show/hide things. The Tea isBrill log has one. Feel free to pinch the code.
  16. Decorate the site footer with some nice images. Bonus points if you made the image yourself with your own camera.
  17. Add your own entries to the 100 things to do with a personal website list. See if we can get to 200.

3 thoughts on “100 things you can do on your personal website – 79 to 100”

  • Lord Matt ✔️✔️✔️✔️✔️ says:

    @Matt 101 Create a gallery of photographs you can use as decoration elements later.

  • snahn ip says:

    @Matt a little shop video made me smile. Thanks for that. I was looking at the original list and I stopped to think at the last time I saw an #imagemap… Still pondering as I reply to your post. ^>^

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