The IoH page by Lincoln

You are empowered

One of the lies social media tells us is that they make connecting with people and communicating easy. Not only is this untrue, as they make connecting with people increasingly difficult in their continual quest to engage our eyeballs and keep us from leaving their platforms, but it also implies that you can't connect or communicate without them.

I made this page to tell you that you can.

You can communicate your ideas and connect to other people without social media, or at least, without chaining yourself and your ideas to their platforms.

Every element of any page can be adjusted and massaged to look exactly like any other Web page you've seen.

The attributes to set up the look and feel of page elements are not difficult to adjust. The languages the files use to accomplish this are a little rigid, but you are smart enough to understand them. And you don't have to memorize anything to set your page up the way you want it to look. Tools are out there. Tutorials are out there. Reference documents are out there. You can color and borderize and fontify your page however you want. You can do it.

The stylesheet file main.css has all the rules, and the html file has names and classes to identify which things you're modifying. To make all of the column boxes have a red background, find the line starting with .column, look for the attribute "background: #eef", and change the code "#eef" to another color code, one with a higher value for red than for green and blue, say, "#e9a".

Want the FAQ box to have a border? Notice that the FAQ has an ID of "col5". Add a line to the CSS file, "#col5 { border: solid 1px black; }" or "#col5 { border: dotted 2px #693; }".

It doesn't matter how long it takes you to make changes. What matters is that you have the power to make them, and what you upload to your own site belongs to you. When you publish through social media platforms, you usually give them permission to use and profit from your work without compensation. When you create a Web page on your computer and upload it to your site, you've created it on your machine, and they can't say that the work was first recorded on their hardware, so the copyright belongs to you. Don't use a site that tries to claim your copyright. Your work is yours.

Together, as we create works with our human brains and connect to the sites of other humans, we can make a more human Web. And that will be better for all of us.

Now, check out the Web46 sample page for tips on moving forward to continue the creation or our #IoH.