Site Spec

Stuff To Put On Your Website

2026-03-18

about🔗

sometimes people are like, i’d have a website but i don’t know what to even put on it.

so here is a site spec, a taxonomy for personal websites, that you can use to make a website, or to expand your existing website.

pages🔗

these are pages that are updated from time to time, but that might remain static for up to a year or more.

a page listed here typically exists at domain.com/page

i started collecting this list before i learned that https://slashpages.net/ is a thing. their list is more comprehensive but also quite silly taken as a whole.

• /about: about the author, or about the project / site

• /contact: how to contact the author. MUST HAVE

• /now: what you’re up to: https://now.page/

• /uses: what you use: https://uses.tech/

• /feed: the site feed(s), atom/rss/json/etc

• /work: often a resume/cv or a “work with me” page

• /blogroll: a list of blogs the author likes to read. this is important for small web discovery!

collections🔗

collections are places where you keep lots of other things. a collection e.g. of blogposts would typically exist at domain.com/blog/1, domain.com/blog/2, etc. or at blog.domain.com/1, blog.domain.com/2, etc.

• blog: you know what a blog is

• microblog: a blog but tiny! 140 characters or less

• links: a linkblog, or a bookmark collection

• photos: j-pegs

• ideas: an idea blog

conclusion🔗

there, now you know what to put on your website.

go make some awesome stuff why doncha