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Making the IndieWeb Beginner-Friendly

Keep in mind that this is still a Work in Progress.

Why the IndieWeb? Why make it easier?

Software has been getting increasingly complex, which includes making websites. However, there has been a recent move to make it easier or to strip it down to its bare essentials.

The IndieWeb comes partly from the idea that we should own our content

How?

Creating Easy-to-Use Tooling

If we use GitHub Pages + Jekyll, we can easily publish static-sites.

Jekyll and Git/GitHub are not the most user-friendly, but I think that there can be tooling built to abstract the setup and command line and provide some assistance with source control and publishing then it’s a pretty easy tool to have for kids or adults to start learning with.

The easiest and potentially most high-impact way I can think of doing this is by creating a VSCode extension.

Features:

Education

Use IndieWeb resources like the wiki

Create more a curriculum so that people can understand the massive number of things that you can do with your own website

What IndieWeb concepts should be taught?

IndieWeb Pages

IndieWeb Concepts:

General Web Concepts:

Blog Posts: Tagging and Categories