I used to think free website builders were for people who didn't know any better. That was stupid of me. Last year, I decided to stop gatekeeping and actually test what free platforms could do. Not theoretically — practically. I built a portfolio site, helped my mom launch a small consulting blog, and created a side project directory. All without spendi…
Read moreI spent $200 on my first website in 2015. A domain, hosting, WordPress theme — the whole package. Then I watched my friend build something better in a weekend for free using tools that didn't exist back then. That stung. Not just the wasted money, but the fact that I'd convinced myself you needed to pay to play. You don't. Not anymore. Here…
Read moreI'm going to be honest: I approached this experiment skeptical. Free website builders have always felt like compromises — limited designs, clunky interfaces, weird watermarks. But I had a hunch that things had changed, so I actually built three different websites from scratch across different platforms in the last month. One for a friend's freelance p…
Read moreI spent ₹500 a month on web hosting for two years before realizing I was being stupid. My portfolio site got maybe 50 visitors a month, and I was paying for a service that could've been free. The worst part? I knew better. I just didn't know where to start. That was five years ago. Since then, I've built more than a dozen websites — some for mys…
Read moreTwo years ago, I'd have told you to just learn HTML. Free website builders were slow, clunky, and produced sites that looked like they were made in 2009. I wasn't wrong then. I'm also not wrong now — but the gap has closed enough that I actually recommend them. I spent the last month building identical portfolio sites on five different platforms…
Read more"You May Think I'm Small, But I have A Universe Inside My Mind"_Yoko
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