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