What are some examples of well-designed personal sites?

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I have a Twitter thread where people have made a number of suggestions ( https://twitter.com/gwern/status/1092221945427517440 ), and my own website is often mentioned - minimalist, fast, pretty, and also with a number of interesting & unusual features: https://www.gwern.net/About#design

I've been a big fan of Lee Robinson's website, which is built with Next.js: https://leerob.io/

* Stylistic enough to have some heart, but simple enough to not have the design get in the way

* Great content, his blog posts are a good mixture of technical and general thoughts

* I like his timeline on the about me page which provides some flavor to his experience.

As I was working on my personal site I was peeking into his github repo pretty consistently to see how he structured certain things.

In my opinion, one of the best websites is brandur's (https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=brandur).

Not a huge fan of the homepage, but the articles look sublime. Example: https://www.brandur.org/sortsupport-inet

Imho this is seriously amazing: https://dynamicwebpaige.github.io/info/

I quite like the website of Paul Stamatiou, a designer at Twitter. It’s primarily a blog about his interests (photography, gear, etc), but I think the site itself is well done and helps advertise his skills. He just posted an article about the design of the site itself:

https://paulstamatiou.com/about-this-website/

I really like https://gwern.net.

When I built my own site (https://www.gtf.io), I tried to make it as "minimalist" as possible -- fast rendering (v little CSS, no JS, completely static). I wanted it to have no distractions whatsoever, I just wanted it to be readable.

I’m fairly proud of mine: https://rymc.io

The mobile reading is especially smooth, a point of pride

https://www.gwern.net

I really liked Joe Armstrongs GitHub blog here:

https://joearms.github.io/

He wanted something that would enable anybody to PR his Wiki and wasnt at the mercy of a server side static site generator engine since the GH one screwed up his links for his former blog. Its simple and works mostly on the client side and gives you an exportable file.

Armstrong passed away sometime back sadly and my hope is that GitHub maintains his blog undisturbed. He had a beautiful way of explaining concurrency and software issues that I think anybody could follow. Also for those unaware he was one of the creators of the Erlang programming language.

I designed my home page as a thin homage to web server root index.html pages.

Though I'm most proud of my SMIL animations.

https://www.pcmaffey.com

my personal favorite: https://bruno-simon.com/

(FYI: i'm not the author)

I really love this one: https://tobiasahlin.com/

Shameless self promotion (my blog): https://muffinman.io/

And of course, Daring Fireball: https://daringfireball.net/

Not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I like mine. Minimal, with some lairy background graphics.

Built it on an iPad using Working Copy and Affinity Designer. Jekyll, Netlify and a good CDN means it’s free to run and super fast.

https://www.kevan.tv

I don't know if a designer would say, that it's well designed, but I am quite happy with https://kalle.co . No blog, just a small landing page with links to social profiles.

https://strml.net

Quite subjective, we all are.

I saw this template on cdnjs and fell in love. What I had before this website was an awful portfolio type site that had links on the side and a slideshow with all the images and wasn't very mobile-friendly. I knew I needed to update it... and I am absolutely fascinated with minimalism.

If you want to use it, you can find it here: https://cdnjs.com/libraries/topcoat

Adopted to my website: https://notetoservices.com/

I've just recently redesigned my website and I really like it: https://lukaszkups.net/

This one is super simple, and I really like its colors in dark mode: https://alexanderte.github.io/ This is mine, tried to keep it as simple as possible: https://mendel.sh/

I did tried different frameworks like gatsby, nextjs, hugo etc and finally settled with hugo static website for its community support and templates. it is minimalist with white background. Hosted on Netlify. working great so far.

Shameless plug: https://www.rasikjain.com

Sam Esmail's

https://www.esmailcorp.com/

https://igma.im is quite nice https://bruno-simon.com http://www.y78.fr/2/

I really like https://distill.pub 's design. Which is why I remastered it into a Ghost theme and put it on my blog: https://sdan.io/blog

https://www.michaelfogleman.com, discussed on HN [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14445587

I like mine :D

[1] https://www.drinchev.com

A little bit late to the party but this one https://mayvaneday.art/ is pretty good of you're into the old internet stuff, it's even available on the darknet

https://www.msgtrail.com/ is my personal blog. Spartan, easy to read on various screen sizes, auto darkmode, and client-side searching on the Archive page.

I really like http://notes.eatonphil.com/ and http://neil.computer.

I really like https://www.patternsinthevoid.net/

I have been meaning to redo my own to be more minimalist for a while now.

Does mine counts?

https://drach.uk

It doesn’t really serve any purpose right now. I wanted the domain mostly for email. But I tried to put up something nice.

Alternative question: really fast and SEO optimized personal sites?

https://acko.net/ is a personal site I've always found to be impressive and memorable (not mine).

I've seen a few that are just plain left-aligned HTML with basically no styling, and I think they're beautiful.

Does anyone know of any like that? I can't remember any offhand.

I like mine for the fact that it is static and hosted on github pages with a not too bad design.

https://vks.ai/

Shameless plug. https://nojvek.com

It’s a super simple site that I wanted to make minimal and mobile friendly.

My personal website is minimal, but still very much a work in progress.

https://thomasbrittain.com

Added a gradient to spice what I wanted to be a plain website:

https://sdan.io/surya

https://myles.works

johndcook.com

The blog posts are amazing and I have learned so much from that. At the same time they have convinced me of Dr. Cook’s knowledge and if I was looking for a consultant in these matters, he would be at the top of my list.

I have done lots of consulting and get a significant amount of traffic to my personal site.

I just used Wordpress, picked a minimalist theme, edited the theme to suite me, then added plugins to improve:

https://austingwalters.com/

html only https://alvarofeito.com/

http://glenweyl.com/

my personal site: https://alligatorbrowser.github.io/index.html

Mine is pretty minimalistic, haven't updated it in a few years but people like it: http://www.nbrogi.com/

Contact info, GPG key, brief bio, links and a big QR code of its own link.