Notes

Website Paths

I've lately building personal websites for friends and this is a collection of paths that can be added to a personal website to provide additional information and functionality.

Common Pages

  • /about - Provides information on the company, organization, or person.
  • /now - Explains what the person is focused on at this point in their life.
  • /contact - Offers a way to get in touch with the person.
  • /cv - Lists the person's work experience, education, and skills.
  • /404 - A page that shows up when a visitor tries to access a page that doesn't exist.

Personal Pages

  • /links - Lists the person's links on the world wide web.
  • /photos - Showcases the person's photography.
  • /projects - Outlines the person's projects.
  • /work - Showcases what the person has accomplishment in their previous roles.

Special Pages

  • /ideas - Details what the person would like to work on in the future.
  • /colophon - Explains the technologies used to build the website.
  • /guestbook - Allows visitors to leave comments.
  • /purpose - Explains the "why" behind the website's "what".
  • /uses - Details developer setups, gear, software, and configs.
  • /wish - Highlights openly sought items/experiences/charities.

Files

  • /humans.txt - Contains information about the different people who have contributed to building the website.
  • /robots.txt - Gives instructions about the person's website to web robots.
  • /sitemap.xml - Lists all the pages on a website (useful for crawlers and external integration).