Own Your Web – Issue 14: Webmentions

Hi All! 🤗 For the summer holidays, my family and I went to France. On our way to the Atlantic Ocean, we shortly stopped in Chartres, a lovely town southwest of Paris, which is famous for its monumental and impressively beautiful cathedral. On the way back, we visited Paris and climbed up the stairs (well done, kids!) of one of the world’s most...

Hi All! 🤗 Let’s talk about the first thing many of your visitors will see and thus one of the most important places on any personal website: the home page. “The home” is where you leave a first impression and where people decide whether the website they are looking at – and the services you might be offering – are worth their time. But it is...

Hi All! 🤗 There are many pages you can add to your personal site that people can visit if they want to learn more about you. A “contact” page or an “about” page are two classics that you’ll find on many sites out there. But what if someone doesn’t want to read your bio, your scope of activities, or a list of your accolades? What if that person...

Hi All! 🤗 It is one of the most common reasons why we abandon our personal sites and blogs: at some point, we stop publishing. But why? Weren’t we so enthusiastic when we started (or restarted) our sites? Didn’t we tell ourselves that this time, we would really post more regularly? And didn’t it also work well for a few posts? But then, everyday...

Hi All! 🤗 Imagine you post and make new friends on an online network for more than a decade – and suddenly, your account gets suspended for no apparent reason. And there is nothing you can do about it. Or imagine the online community you were an active part of for years just closes down and all user data gets deleted after a few months. And...