Website-Building Resources

A Note About This Website

Launching this site was one of the first things I did after writing Liminal Horror. I used the framework created by Yochai Gal for his Cairn website as the bones to build my own (much like the original system). Long before I bought a domain, or really knew how to do it, I followed how-tos and looked at free resources to figure out how to edit and launch my own.

A quick overview of Github/Jekyll Sites:

To do it I made a copy of the Cairn site and edited it to have the Liminal Horror info, but used/referred to Yochai’s build to help guide my work.

Where my github lives: [https://github.com/GoblinArchives/LiminalHorror])(https://github.com/GoblinArchives/LiminalHorror)
Editing Code: I use atom. It has sunset but works super well for editing my markdown pages. I use an old version (1.49.0) - https://atom-editor.cc/
Pushing updates: Initially I had to use a gitbash terminal, but after transitioning to a different computer I found that using github desktop works great for pushing updates. https://github.com/apps/desktop
The website template I use is JusttheDocs.

This is just one method you can use to host a website for your game. There are many out there. Some resources I’ve found also helpful are:

Website-building resources

Tutorials

The Quick ‘n’ Dirty Guide to Making a Website (2022)
neocities - A classic for a reason.
Bear Blog - A free blogging platform that could be adapted to host your ttrpg.
Zonelets - Another free blogging platform that can be used to make your own website.

Articles on why websites matter, now more than ever as a means of archiving work:

Rediscovering the Small Web by Parimal Satyal
Plain old webpages still matter by Felix Plesoianu
Cyber Mauseoleums (Or the Argument Against Deletion) by neonaut
Every site needs a Links Page / Why linking matters by Daniel/Melon

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