#websites
RSS- Five things not to do on your artist's website
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/five-things-not-to-do-on-your-artists-website
1. Disabling right-clicking JavaScript that disables right-clicking (to prevent people “stealing” your images) is wrong on so many levels. But it’s such a prevalent mistake that I feel the need…
Indexed 11/11/2025
- Artist's Website Software
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/artists-website-software
My website has grown organically over 12 years, but the code is looking very messy and unmanageable, so I’m thinking of recoding it from scratch (while adding a lot of improvements). I decided that…
Indexed 11/11/2025
- The Case For Comments
https://osteophage.neocities.org/essays/comments-use-case
Given that comments can be controversial on the indie web, it’s worth pointing out the use cases for comment sections as a feature. Comment sections are particularly suited to allowing for brief high-context replies, supporting public multi-way interactions, setting a (relatively) lower threshold for participation, and allowing the blogger to define the parameters for a discussion. These are use cases that cannot all be adequately addressed by commonly-suggested alternatives such as response posts or email.
Indexed 1/22/2026
- If you've signed up for Bluesky, you've signed up for offloadable moderation
https://osteophage.neocities.org/writing/bluesky-offloadable-moderation
By now a lot of people have been lured to Bluesky with a mistaken impression of what they're in for. Foundationally, the reason Bluesky was launched in the first place was out of a desire to do less moderation, and so Bluesky's approach to moderation is all about creating excuses for offloading responsibility. This approach has predictable consequences.
Indexed 9/23/2025
- Five MySpace Mistakes for Visual Artists
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/five-myspace-mistakes-for-visual-artists
The 2006 blog post Five mistakes you’re probably making with your MySpace page (on Andrew Dubber’s blog New Music Strategies) applies equally to visual artists as it does to musicians. The five mistakes…
Indexed 11/11/2025
- Five MySpace Mistakes for Visual Artists
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/five-myspace-mistakes-for-visual-artists
The 2006 blog post Five mistakes you’re probably making with your MySpace page (on Andrew Dubber’s blog New Music Strategies) applies equally to visual artists as it does to musicians. The five mistakes…
Indexed 11/11/2025
- New website (2023 edition)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/new-site-2023
As you may have noticed (unless you’re reading this post in an RSS feed reader, more on which later) I’ve just re-launched this website with a brand new paint job. Actually it’s a bit more than…
Indexed 11/9/2025
- Blogrolls (reprise)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/blogrolls-reprise
Last week I posted The return of the blogroll (and more), and — typically! — almost immediately afterwards I found out that many people have already been discussing blogrolls over the past few weeks,…
Indexed 11/11/2025
- Upgrading from Apache 2.2 to Apache 2.4
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/upgrading-from-apache-2-2-to-apache-2-4
A bit more technical than my usual posts here, but… I upgraded to Kubuntu 13.10 on Thursday evening on my desktop machine at home, and one of the packages included in the update was Apache (Apache 2.2…
Indexed 11/9/2025
- Good Weird Stuff – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/good-weird-stuff
Indexed 3/14/2026
- How Online Privacy Has Been Championed by Dreamwidth
https://osteophage.neocities.org/essays/dreamwidth-fights-for-privacy
If you care about privacy on the web, then you should care about how anti-privacy laws have been challenged by Dreamwidth. Its unique role in these legal battles hasn’t been getting any dedicated press coverage, and so it falls to people like us to spread the word: Dreamwidth is proactively going to court against anti-privacy laws and highlighting itself as a positive example in order to show how these laws are predicated on assumptions that don’t apply.
Indexed 11/23/2025
- Strategies: creating a website for your art, music or writing (part 1)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/strategies-creating-a-website-for-your-art-music-or-writing-part-1
1. Start with a website OK, here’s the easy-to-follow three-point guide: If you are a competent web developer then create your own site. If you have a friend who is a competent web developer then…
Indexed 11/10/2025
- Twitterlike is a Bad Shape
https://osteophage.neocities.org/essays/twitterlike
Twitter and its imitators have adopted a structural design that is fundamentally bad for people. This isn't just a matter of who's in charge; it's a problem with the thing itself. Forcing users to adhere to a tight character limit, discouraging link culture, preventing people from editing their own posts, steering people into sharing things they hate, incentivizing rage bait with trending feeds, subjecting people to decontextualized encounters, encouraging conflict by discouraging tags, and leaving users powerless to clean up the resulting mess—all of this is bad shape.
Indexed 9/23/2025
- A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions
https://reillyspitzfaden.com/digital-garden/tutorials/webmention-tutorial
Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.
Indexed 5/30/2025
- A Pack a Day – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/a-pack-a-day
Indexed 3/12/2026
- You Can Make A Website
https://osteophage.neocities.org/essays/you-can-make-a-website
If you have any doubts, then you're the target audience of this guide.
Indexed 9/23/2025
- Websites? Wobsites. Wibsits! – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/websites-wobsites-wibsits
Indexed 3/24/2026
- Sing It Loud – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/sing-it-loud
Indexed 1/4/2026
- Twenty-nine years of promises and give me more
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/29-years-of-promises-and-give-me-more
Today this blog turns seventeen years old, the first post being Welcome to the Journal posted at 12:23pm on Saturday 9th August 2008 (I never did finish that art project I wrote about in that first post). And…
Indexed 11/11/2025
- Blogs on Blogs – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/blogs-on-blogs
Indexed 3/12/2026
- Subscribe to this blog via … ActivityPub
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/subscribe-via-activitypub
I’ve spent a lot of time thinking about how I can make it easier for people to follow this blog. I usually post a link to any new blog post on my social media accounts, but it’s very easy for people…
Indexed 11/8/2025
- Sticky – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/sticky
Indexed 3/9/2026
- Good Web Graveyard
https://osteophage.neocities.org/projects/good-web-graveyard
For those of us interested in more ethical, user-focused social platforms, it’s worth understanding how these ventures can go wrong. To that end, start here at the Good Web Graveyard: a link compilation on departed websites that had marketed themselves in terms of ethics. Avoiding exploitative business models isn’t itself a guarantee of failure, but plenty of other things are, and by reading up on what’s gone defunct, we can learn to recognize the warning signs.
Indexed 10/1/2025
- Think global, act localhost
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/think-global-act-localhost
Links from one page to another are so fundamental to the web that without them it simply would not exist. HyperText — the H and the T in HTML — is defined by the W3C as text which contains links to…
Indexed 11/9/2025
- Artists Website Software – Feb 2009 Update
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/artists-website-software-feb-2009-update
I thought it was about time to give you all an update on the free open-source Artists Website Software I’m currently working on. I’ve got a very basic skeleton completed so far, but the alpha version…
Indexed 11/9/2025
- My plans for 2024
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/my-plans-for-2024
I deliberately skipped the archetypal “round-up of 2023” blog post, I’m not entirely sure why. I think, for me personally, it makes more sense to talk about the year ahead. Writing about it helps…
Indexed 11/10/2025
- Microsites for arts projects
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/microsites-for-arts-projects
In my job at a publishing company we often have to create special one-off mini-websites for individual books, book series or for the books by a particular author. These are in addition to the book’s…
Indexed 11/10/2025
- The Artist’s Notebook
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/tagged
The Artist’s Notebook is Paul Watson’s studio journal containing notes on his ongoing artwork and related research, giving an insight into his creative process and artistic practice.
Indexed 11/7/2025
- Three Ephemeral Website Things – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/three-ephemeral-website-things
Indexed 2/5/2026
- The Half-Remembered Bakery – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/the-half-remembered-bakery
Indexed 3/9/2026
- The Half-Remembered Bakery – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/the-half-remembered-bakery
Indexed 3/9/2026
- S’Notes – Lucy Bellwood
https://lucybellwood.com/snotes
Indexed 3/11/2026
- Artists Website Software – December Update
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/artists-website-software-december-update
In my last post I talked about the Artists Website Software I was planning. It’s been a busy few months (both with my day-job and with moving house) but I have made some progress, and I hope to have…
Indexed 11/9/2025
- The return of the blogroll (and more)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/the-return-of-the-blogroll
When I completely redesigned this site in September/October of this year I spent a lot of time thinking about this blog section - not just in terms of design and layout, but also about how it needed to…
Indexed 11/9/2025
- A final word on blogs before we return to our regularly scheduled programming
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/a-final-word-on-blogs
In a post a few days ago I was writing about the importance of outgoing links as an integral — perhaps the integral — part of the web, and how social media sites seem to disfavour them because they…
Indexed 11/9/2025
- Standalone but interconnected, independent but not isolated
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/standalone-but-interconnected
This is a bit of a ramble, but bear with me. One of the main things I’ve tried to do with this new website — aside from making it load faster and look better — is to lay the foundations for a…
Indexed 11/10/2025
- Microsites for arts projects (revisited)
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/microsites-for-arts-projects-revisited
Following up from my “Microsites for Arts Projects” post in August, I noticed that Maki at DoshDosh had (quite separately) published a similar article in September entitled “How ‘Mini-Funnel’…
Indexed 10/28/2025
- A basic strategy for music in 5 steps
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/a-basic-strategy-for-music-in-5-steps
I was chatting to a good friend of mine yesterday about business strategies for her music. She’s not planning on chart-topping super-stardom, she just wants to have a plan for getting her music…
Indexed 11/11/2025
- A basic strategy for music in 5 steps
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/arts-tech/posts/a-basic-strategy-for-music-in-5-steps
I was chatting to a good friend of mine yesterday about business strategies for her music. She’s not planning on chart-topping super-stardom, she just wants to have a plan for getting her music…
Indexed 11/11/2025
- A Quick Guide to Everything I Know about Webmentions
https://reillyspitzfaden.com/wiki/tutorials/webmention-tutorial
Collection of tutorials on webmentions including the basics — you can get up and running with only two lines of HTML! — using microformats to enrich your mentions; adding a webmention form; and parsing, displaying, and updating them with Eleventy, Netlify, and Bridgy.
Indexed 9/28/2025
- About the web in 2024
https://lazaruscorporation.co.uk/blogs/artists-notebook/posts/about-the-web-in-2024
A day may come, as Aragorn might have said, when I finally get back to blogging about my artistic practice — the entire raison d’être of this blog — but it is not this day. I don’t want to…
Indexed 11/11/2025