Small Web September 2025: Kick-off and Goals

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I came across a post on Mastodon about Small Web September, a monthlong event encouraging participants to make progress on projects related to individual websites and small web services. It wass hosted by enchantedsleeper in the All Things Small Web community on Dreamwidth Studio. I took it as inspiration to work on my personal website during the month of September.

I had neglected my website for the last ten months and hadn’t updated it since early December 2024. That needed to change!

Goals

My main goal was to feel confident about sharing links to my personal website and not feel embarrassed about the state it was in. This was my task list:

Discussion Prompts

I didn’t plan to join the community on Dreamwidth Studio, where Small Web September was hosted. Instead, I wanted answer the discussion prompts here on my website:

  • Kick-off and goal-setting: the note you are reading right now
  • Check-in 1: Links! (September 7th)
  • Check-in 2: Halfway point! (September 14th)
  • Check-in 3: Communities! (September 21st)
  • Check-in 4: Wrap-up! (September 30th)
  • “What inspired you to make (or start making) your small web project(s)?”
  • “[W]hat is it that appeals to you about the small web?”

Maybe Later

The following are improvements I’d like to make to my website that were out of scope for this year’s Small Web September:

  • Test RSS feeds and fix if necessary
  • Change images for social media previews
  • Set up FrontMatter CMS
  • Subset font files