Introduction to making minimal websites and digital ephemera

Date: January 21 2025

Reg Beatty

The “small web” is equal parts political and aesthetic. It engages with questions, posed by the early web, about what it means to have a personal presence online but in the light of today’s ubiquitous social media and commercialization. 

This Intro will touch on these aspects of the small web but will focus on one of its hallmarks—the handmade web page. Using a minimal palette of HTML and CSS we will see how quickly a page can be created and published. This can be anything from a professional portal linking dispersed materials, to a zine, a poem, or ephemera like a bulletin, a postcard.

For those of you that want to explore this further (or are unable to attend on Jan 21) we will be offering two hands-on workshops in February. These will be hybrid events held on Zoom and at the Library’s Collaboratory. The tentative dates are Feb 7 and 14 (both Fridays) from 10am until noon EST. If you are interested please use the registration button on our website and we will stay in touch.

Instructor: Reg Beatty