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@fridge 2026-03-15 •

i'd like to make a statement regarding my opinions when it comes to website creation and AI. [h3]when it's good[/h3] i think when it comes to the functionality of a website, AI is fine and a great tool. there's a lot you can do with AI, and if you have the creativity to introduce certain features but not the technical ability to create them, then you should still be credited with the introduction of those features. take my website homepage for example; i've always wanted a live display of my web server's system usage that anyone could see, but not only have i never had the technical ability to make that, i also had no idea how i'd make such a thing with the ASCII art numbers. it's still a unique idea though, and it's also useful for me because it helps in diagnosing performance without logging into my server remotely. here are some other examples of website features i've had help from AI making. i use AI for making these specificially because they're complicated, and literally the only difference between the AI result and the human-made result is the amount of time it would've taken to make, which i believe is the best use case for AI: [list]making "SPA navigation", which allows you to navigate to each page without refreshing the website. this allows the music player to keep playing when you visit different pages, and is also used by YouTube, SoundCloud, Spotify and other web-based music services. making the Toast Discord Bot feed its stream into the music player. the stream is received from a different website, and then fed through the website using methods that are complicated and time consuming to implement, and the time i'd spend on that isn't worth it for such a small feature the newsletter automatically generating HTML code for use in emails. this HTML is written by myself, the "generation" is just putting my written content into the code automatically, because HTML in emails is a bit tedious for things like research and security testing/hardening, AI has helped me introduce features that i consider essential, such as anti-PHP/JS injection in the guestbook (so people can't run code by sending it there).[/list] in summary, i use it for things where the only benefit of doing so is to save myself time. i am capable of doing all of these, but sometimes the time spent on them isn't worth it. [h3]when it's bad[/h3] a universally agreed upon opinion when it comes to AI is that it shouldn't be used to create art, and in my opinion, web design is art, [u]especially[/u] when it comes to personal websites. your website is a representation of yourself, and to the end user, the only thing they'll pay any attention to by default is what's layed out in front of them. if you use AI to create the style for your website, you aren't representing yourself; you're creating a product. personal websites have been an art form ever since they blew up in the 90s, and even now after they've died down a bit due to social media doing the same thing most people are looking for. this makes this rule especially applicable in the modern day, because the only reason you'd want to make a personal website is for self representation that social media can't provide for you. the use of AI makes this self representation pointless. if you're not sure exactly what i mean, here's a few cases where i think AI should never be used for website creation: [list]creating the style for your website. the UI you see while you read this post and on other pages of my website might've been given raw functionality with AI, but the visual style and format of how the page is layed out was made by hand. what you see is what i want to be remembered by after someone visits my website. every element including buttons, borders, the sidebar, the music player and every page and its contents were designed without any help from AI. the text and media content within your website. i'll be fully honest, i've ended up using AI in the creation of some blog posts because before this current design, i wrote the posts in my code editor and sometimes the AI's autofill suffices for what I want to say, but i've tried to steer from relying on it too much and with this design, all the content is written on the website itself and does not use any AI. after all, no point in creating a website to represent yourself if you're actually representing an artificial intelligence. i can, however, understand potentially using AI to spellcheck or change the tone/formality of your text, but i personally don't. and other media like images are the same.[/list] in summary, the visual design for your website (its styling/CSS, colour choices, UI/UX, etc.) and its consumable content (blogs, text, images and media, etc.) should never be AI. [h3]not a web designer? read this.[/h3] there's someone commissioning me to make a website for them, and they've stated that they've tried themselves via services like wordpress, but decided against it because a majority of their templates are AI generated and these services have resorted to heavily using AI for their creation process. i strongly dislike this because it kills the purpose of a website being a representation of ones creativity. if you want a website made but don't know how to do this yourself, i beg of you to please not use AI. save up some money and pay a freelance or professional web designer, because these guys have some insane creativity when it comes to this stuff and are good at doing exactly what you want. i'll be making a page about my own offers when it comes to making you a personal website, and you'll be able to commission me! that'll be out quite soon. [h3]want to learn how to make a website?[/h3] my personal method for learning web design and creation was to learn first hand. here's how you can get started, like i did! [list]download and open an IDE (i recommend [link=https://code.visualstudio.com/download]VS Code[/link], since you can install extensions to streamline your process like [link=https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-vscode.live-server]"Live Preview"[/link], which lets you see changes as you make them) find a guide ([link=https://www.w3schools.com/html]W3Schools[/link] is what I heavily refer to, even still today) and just start making whatever comes to mind![/list] if you want any help with anything, i am more than happy to be there for you. email me at me@fridg3.org or send me a message via Discord!

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