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Build a personal website

A ready-made journey for anyone who wants to build a personal website: 8 steps, about 4.8 hours in all, in an order that works — work steps of 30 minutes or less, with real-world sessions kept whole.

Opens in Nextep with a two-minute first step lit. Free, and no account needed to begin.

When it's useful

When you have decided to build a personal website but the first move is fuzzy. Nextep shows one step at a time, keeps the rest in order, and never calls anything overdue — a day that slips simply becomes today.

The steps

1. 1Decide who it is for and what it must say30 min
2. 2Pick the 5 pieces of work to showtime block · 45 min
3. 3Write the about page in your own voice45 min
4. 4Choose the simplest tool that will do it30 min
5. 5Build the home and work pages60 min
6. 6Sort the domain and hosting30 min
7. 7Check it on a phone30 min
8. 8Publish and share it with 5 people20 min

Work steps over 30 minutes are split into parts when you start, so they fit somewhere in a day; sessions — a run, an appointment, a call — stay whole.