Getting Started - IndieWeb

Get started on the indieweb by connecting with the IndieWeb community, getting a personal domain, a place for your content, and setting up your home page and other IndieWeb essentials.
Do the reasons why resonate with you, but you are not sure how to get on the IndieWeb?
You have found the right page!
With each step below, you will gain understanding and more ownership of your online identity & content, steadily making progress with your personal web presence.
At some point along the way, you may want to participate the community by joining 👥 our chat room, attending a 📅 Homebrew Website Club meetup, or going to the next 🎪 IndieWebCamp weekend.
This is the key to being on and a part of the IndieWeb:
You need your own personal domain to use as your primary online identity:
Web hosting is how you put your website online. You can use a web hosting service, which is recommended for beginners, or you can self host on your own device, which is generally considered more challenging.
Examples of web host services:
The actual pages or content of your website can be created in a variety of ways. Some popular options are the use of static site generators (SSGs), writing HTML, or using a Content Management Service (CMS). For blogging, you can also look at Dreamwidth, Micro.blog (Tutorial), or Blogger (Tutorial).
Optionally, you may want to import your content from other accounts or platforms. For more information, see Export: Silos or the wiki pages for specific sites, such as Twitter, Tumblr, or Facebook.
Syndication or cross-posting means to share your posts across multiple sites. You may want to set up automatic syndication so that material posted to your site is automatically distributed to your social media accounts, or you can cross-post manually.
Putting material on your own site first and linking to it elsewhere is called POSSE, which is short for Publish on your Own Site, Syndicate Elsewhere. By setting up POSSE, you can have your posts pushed to specific social media silos with a personal permalink back to the original on your own site. In other words, you allow those that read content on those silos to continue seeing what you have to say, while you retain ownership and control of your content on your own site.
When setting up your home page (index.html), you can include rel-me links to your social network profiles in order to confirm those accounts are yours. If your links are set up correctly (test with the IndieWebify.Me Web Sign In Validator), this will also allow you to sign in to sites that support IndieAuth — like this wiki! For more information, see setup web sign-in.
On blogposts and articles, you can add the h-entry microformat markup to your posts in order to help automated tools display your author information, which can be useful for indie web comments, likes, reposts, and reply-context. You can use the h-entry validator to verify that your h-entry has been set up correctly.
🔧 Indiewebify.me provides step-by-step guidance and tools to test & validate your progress. See Tools for more useful things for building & debugging an IndieWeb site.
Blog posts and articles about one or more aspects getting started with a personal website. Most recent first.
This section is for collecting various ideas and proposals for improving this page, and seeing which gather sufficient "+1" support from the community make some incremental improvements.