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Oct. 14th, 2022 06:26 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vr_trakowskiWell, phooey.
A few years ago I created a personal site on Weebly to host my fanfic, including stuff that - for a variety of reasons - I haven’t put up on AO3 (and some of which is not currently posted elsewhere). It’s in no way transactional, but Weebly is suddenly requiring that I create a Square account to continue to use their service.
I don’t want a Square account. I don’t need a Square account. I get Weebly’s point - its focus is small business sites - but I have no intention of complying. I’m not giving Square my information just so I can still post fic. Especially since it would have to be my IRL info, not my pseudonym.
However, that means that my Weebly pages are, at best, frozen. I can’t add anything more (not that I was, I’m way behind on updates). I don’t think it was getting many hits, but...now what?
Personal fanfic sites aren’t really a thing any longer. I could go the DIY route - buy a domain name and some hosting and create pages from scratch. They would be very simple, but I could do it. Eventually.
I don’t know of any hosted system that’s set up for this kind of thing. I have an old WordPress account, but that’s a blogging model. Ditto Dreamwidth.
The other option, I suppose, would be to create a separate AO3 account and put everything else there. I know about pseuds, but using a pseud lists everything in the same place, and the reasons I’ve kept some stuff off of AO3 means I don’t want to jumble everything together. I’m not trying to conceal authorship - most of it’s on FF.net anyway - some of it’s just not very good. Among other things.
Probably there isn’t a good solution. *bleah*
A few years ago I created a personal site on Weebly to host my fanfic, including stuff that - for a variety of reasons - I haven’t put up on AO3 (and some of which is not currently posted elsewhere). It’s in no way transactional, but Weebly is suddenly requiring that I create a Square account to continue to use their service.
I don’t want a Square account. I don’t need a Square account. I get Weebly’s point - its focus is small business sites - but I have no intention of complying. I’m not giving Square my information just so I can still post fic. Especially since it would have to be my IRL info, not my pseudonym.
However, that means that my Weebly pages are, at best, frozen. I can’t add anything more (not that I was, I’m way behind on updates). I don’t think it was getting many hits, but...now what?
Personal fanfic sites aren’t really a thing any longer. I could go the DIY route - buy a domain name and some hosting and create pages from scratch. They would be very simple, but I could do it. Eventually.
I don’t know of any hosted system that’s set up for this kind of thing. I have an old WordPress account, but that’s a blogging model. Ditto Dreamwidth.
The other option, I suppose, would be to create a separate AO3 account and put everything else there. I know about pseuds, but using a pseud lists everything in the same place, and the reasons I’ve kept some stuff off of AO3 means I don’t want to jumble everything together. I’m not trying to conceal authorship - most of it’s on FF.net anyway - some of it’s just not very good. Among other things.
Probably there isn’t a good solution. *bleah*
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Date: 2022-10-22 04:05 pm (UTC)Part of the problem is that there are so MANY stories...and I am so very lazy.
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Date: 2022-10-22 04:52 pm (UTC)It supports php! You can build a header and footer template for the layouts and post the stories with php includes!
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Date: 2022-10-22 05:51 pm (UTC)Maybe? Someday? I had to look up how to change the color of the page.
On top of my possession of nothing but a few basic crumbs of HTML, I have zero design sense. How should the site look? I have NO IDEA. Should I post chapter by chapter, or an entire fic on one page? Should I offer PDF downloads? Is there even such a thing as a WYSIWYG editor any more? I'm sure there are answers out there but I haven't had time to poke around much yet.
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Date: 2022-10-23 01:19 pm (UTC)I can help! I can help!
I need a keyboard to help but i can definitely help!
(I’ve built simple php based sites before and I really enjoy doing it)
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Date: 2022-10-25 07:40 am (UTC)You can email me at vrtrakowski at the mail of G if that's easier.