Workshop: Introduction to making minimal websites and digital ephemera

Date: February 14 2025

Instructor: 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.